"Favorite Hill?" Topic

In the annals of military history, do you have a favorite hill?

Hill 60 Gallipoli

Cemetery Hill, where one country was saved while another was lost, then following a short yet pointed speech a whole Nation was born again!

Senlac Hill, Battle of Hastings
Pratzen Heights – Austerlitz
Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) – AWI
Mount Defiance – AWI
King's Mountain – AWI
Bloody Hill – ACW, Wilson's Creek
Nicodemus Hill – ACW, Antietam
Culp's Hill – ACW, Gettysburg
Little Round Top – ACW, Gettysburg – Favorite
Cemetery Hill – ACW. Gettysburg
San Juan Hill – Spanish American War
Kettle Hill – Spanish American War
Pieters Hill, 2nd Boer War
Talana Hill, 2nd Boer War
Diamond Hill, 2nd Boer War
Hill 60 – WWI, Western Front
Hill 60 – WWI, Gallipoli
Hill 609 – WWII, Tunisia
Hill 102.0 (Mamayev Kurgan) – WWII, Stalingrad
Hill 593 – WWII, Monte Casino
Hill 262 – WWII, Normandy
Hill 112 – WWII, Southwest of Caen
Hill 400 – WWII, Hürtgen Forest
Hill 252.2 – WWII, Prokhorovka
Hill 239.0 – WWII, Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
Hill 69.9 (Tower Hill) – WWII, Narwa Isthmus
Sugar Loaf Hill – WWII, Okinawa
Pork Chop Hill – Korean War
Hamburger Hill – Vietnam War
The Hill Fights – Vietnam, Khe Sanh

Spion Kop

Lansdown Hill – ECW
Roundway Down – ECW

Greater and Lesser Apariles (Salamanca). Great views over one of the most unspoilt battlefields in Europe.

BTW: Although it is a place that saw much vicious fighting, and should be remembered as such, Hill 112 isn't much of a hill. It's not much more than higher ground in an otherwise a billiard table flat landscape (you can certainly cycle up it without breaking a sweat). Strategically important, as a long distance vantage point and because of the dead ground it provided to the occupier, I wouldn't call it inspiring as a hill – as a geographical feature, I was mightily unimpressed with it when I saw it back in the 90s.

While named 'The battle of Glen Shiel' it was fought on the extremely steep side of the Glen. Does that count?

Isandhlwana
The Santon
Hill 60

General Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. Always partial to Daddy Hill--kind, generous and competent. That's a rare combination.

General Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. Always partial to Daddy Hill--kind, generous and competent. That's a rare combination.

Malvern Hill – ACW

Last stand hill, Little Bighorn.

Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) – AWI

Blueberry – Thank you, Fats.

After that, Daniel Harvey.

Coming in third, beans.

Are we talking about a different type of "hill"?

112

Hill 112, wow, is that in the middle of nowhere.

You gotta WANT to drive to that spot, but really cool. Got a bunch of shrapnel found there by just kick'n the dirt.

Galgenhügel or Windmühlenhügel. This covers a whole lot of battlefields.

Yes! how could I have forgotten Daniel Harvey?

And Ambrose Powell should at least be on the list.

Winstead Hill— Battle of Franklin, ACW.

‘Cause it's in my town, and I go walking there with my wife from time to time.

Mount Badon/Badon Hill— site of King Arthur's legendary victory over the Saxon invaders of Britain. Is it a real place? Did it actually happen? I lean towards yes. Was an actual Arthur actually involved? Who knows? But I want him to be.

Benny Hill

Gloucester Hill.

112
Senlac

Robert Piepenbrink for the win!

I am with Oddball though I suppose if we are speaking geologically, I would choose King's Mountain.

Nunshigam
Kapyong

Nungshiham
Kapyong

Lansdown Hill – ECW
Roundway Down – ECW

I actually visited Lansdown Hill the last time we visited

For another favorite, "The Anthill" from Paths of Glory.

Perhaps not geographically a hill, but I vote for Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863. Standards front and center, all the way, 23,000 men in four divisions advancing on a five mile front up a slope too steep for units to maneuver.

Grelber

Hey, how can so many of the cognoscenti forget the terrain feature (even if misidentified in the press and popular history) that launched the United States on the world stage?

Does "Teddy Roosevelt" and "SAN JUAN HILL" do anything for ya?

TVAG

Avalon Hill.

Senlac Hill, Little Round Top, and of course, Benny Hill.

Crownhill, site of the old RNEC, now sadly closed down

Hill 170 in the Arakan.

+1 Buck215

I'm partial to Knockdoe. It means "Hill of the Axes", which is both poetic and badass. It also introduced firearms to Irish warfare, something that would echo loud and long over the coming centuries.

My favourite hill? One tree hill at the Greenwich Royal Observatory. Looking down at the National Maritime Museum. As a kid you run screaming down that slope. Now it's been made 'safe' with barriers and fences. No more running down it, blasted nanny state.

It must be Isandlhwana for me.

Graham Hill – both a person and a place. Two for the price of one!

Henry House Hill – 1st Manassas ACW

Puebla, Mexico

Chatterton Hill and Barren Hill, AWI.

Hill 621!

James J. Hill (the Empire Builder)
(My interest in miniatures includes trains)

203 Meter Hill (Siege of Port Arthur)

Butte des Mort (Obscure battle between the Fox Tribe and French)

Faith
Faith Hill, she has a lovely voice!