"Which obscure battle interests you the most?" Topic

Not the large famous ones like Gettysburg, Waterloo, or D-Day. More obscure ones that were bloody and interesting to study although not as written about.
Brandywine
St-Lô
Takur Ghar
Wabash
Lundy's Lane
Palo Alto
These are mine, because they were pretty important yet hardly remembered today.

Many, but amongst my favourites are:

Harran 1104 – not that important but interesting because both sides laid large ambushes each other before the battle.
Ravenna 1512 – ultimately another unimportant battle, but interesting none the less.
Chotusitz 1742 – Frederick the Great's second battle. It features reserves arriving in strength, interesting terrain, a town being accidentally fired causing 'fog of war', etc. All round, a nip and tuck affair.
Operation Crusader 1941 – One of the few WW2 operations where the sides were at parity of overall strength – either side could have won, the Axis came very close, the Brits finally won – and both sides launched major attacks; it features lots and lots of large scale tank encounter battles.

Siege of Malta 1565
Without it, Italy might be a Muslim country today

I've put on Lundy's Lane at a convention so it's of great interest to me.

Averasboro in the ACW.
Bosworth is an obsession, but it wouldn't generally rate as obscure.
And as a class, the "sideshow" battles of the Napoleonic wars, big enough to be proper combined-arms battles with units in formation, but small enough to be represented on a tabletop with some tactical detail.

I like Wilson's Creek in the ACW. Maybe because it was a Missouri battle and I live in St. Louis, MO.
Also, I enjoy Teugen-Hausen with the Austrians showing some possibilities against the French in 1809. Almost?

Mill Springs, 1862, in the ACW--another fairly evenly balanced battle
Velestino, 1897
Albania/Epirus 1940-41

Grelber

Probably the Battle of Oriamendi is the one that interests me most. I've visited the battlefield, such as it is. The battle is interesting in terms of outcome for the BAL and as a wargame it has a lot of possibilities for replay.

Harris Farm 1864
Durazzo 1081

Battle of Platte river Bridges 1865.

Guilford Courthouse (AWI) and Honey Springs (ACW). Both are classic quality vs. quantity match-ups with the former being the attacker despite being outnumbered 2:1. Challenging for the attackers and great fun! I put on Guilford at TwisterCon in March, and will be doing same with Honey Springs at ManeuversCon in August. I live about an hour from Honey Springs and reenact there frequently. Visiting Guilford is on my "to do" list as soon as I retire next year.

My obscure battle may not be yours.

Okiegamer,

We have a number of students who work at the Honey Springs site each year. In fact the previous Director of the Park was one of my former students. The Battle is also a special interest of one of my colleagues at work, who is a fairly well recognized Civil War historian in the state. We will be hosting a Civil War Symposium in a few weeks at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. The event is free and open to the public (with the exception of the dinner, which is optional). I have posted a link containing information about the symposium below. If you wish to attend, then I will be happy to introduce you to our Civil War historian. Also if you want to contact me about the event then my work email is kcrow@usao.edu

Here is a link containing information concerning our Civil War Symposium: link

Kevin

Battle of Newton, 1779 fight between American regulars and mixed Native American/Tory/English force. Small battle which probably did a lot toward opening the American frontier (Western New York and Western Pennsylvania) after the Revolution.

Battle of Alton 1643 it has interested me ever since I read about it in a Don Featherstone Book as a kid.

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1975 Mayaguez Incident

The Battle of Batoche, and the other battles of the Northwest Rebellion. Have a pile of RAFM figures to do a representative battle using The Men Who Would Be Kings, just need to get them painted (as usual) and the terrain built.

I'm most interested in a trio of related battles-Rossilo, Alazan & Medina-fought in 1813 in the vicinity of San Antonio, Tejas. In each of these American Filibusters, Indians from local tribes & Republican Mexican rebels faced Spanish troops & Royalist Mexicans. The Rebels won the 1st 2 combats, but the Spanish victory at Medina secured Texas for Mexico for 2 decades. A 19 Year old Royalist Lieutenant Lopez de Santa Anna served at Medina.

Battle of Dara – 530 AD
Battle of Lalakaon – 863 AD
Battle of Acheloos – 917 AD
Battle of Beroia – 1122 AD
Battle of Froeschwiller/Woerth Aug, 1870
Battle of Spicheren Aug, 1870

To name a few!

Corinth and Iuka

Fort Sanders, 1863 ACW, Knoxville, Tennessee, Longstreet vs. Burnside.

Small, but one the Confederacy desperately needed.

And near where I have lived most of my life.

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
The fight for the stockade in Treasure Island
Rescue of hostages in Stanlyville, Congo
Battle at Tippacanoe, 1811
Relief of Tantrapur

Small but interesting battles I have done as games.

Mockern October 1813. Has everything in Napoleonic warefare. French, Polish, Prussians, Russians, infantry, artillery, cavalry. Urban fighting. Cavalry charge, a non-Charge refusing a direct order from the French commander. French Marines, Prussian Grenadiers, Russian mounted Jagers, Prussian Hussars. Great battle.