A battlefield near me

659 geolocated battles. Share your location to see which ones were fought a few kilometres from your door.

A battlefield is often less than an hour away: an ordinary plain, a bridge, a nameless hill. Find the ones near you, then go and see them.

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In the meantime, the battles that mattered most

Before you share your location, here are the battles that weighed most on French history.

  1. Battle of Soissons

    486 Early Middle Ages Soissons, Gaul (today France)

    Victory

  2. Battle of Tolbiac

    496 Early Middle Ages Tolbiac (Zülpich), Germany

    Victory

  3. Battle of Vouille

    507 Early Middle Ages Vouillé (Campus Vogladensis), near Poitiers, Vienne (Gaul)

    Victory

  4. Battle of Tertry

    687 Early Middle Ages Tertry (Somme), between the Somme and the Omignon marshes

    Victory

  5. Battle of Toulouse

    721 Early Middle Ages Toulouse, Aquitaine (modern France)

    Victory

  6. Battle of Poitiers (732) — also called Tours

    732 Early Middle Ages Between Poitiers and Tours (exact site unknown; multiple hypotheses, e.g. Moussais)

    Victory

  7. Capture of Narbonne

    759 Early Middle Ages Narbonne, Septimania / Gothia (modern France)

    Victory

  8. Battle of Roncesvalles

    778 Early Middle Ages Pyrenean pass / defile (exact site uncertain; memorial at Roncesvalles / Orreaga; Valcarlos sometimes suggested)

    Defeat

  9. Capture of Barcelona

    801 Early Middle Ages Barcelona (Madinat Barshiluna), Upper March of al-Andalus / future Spanish March

    Victory

  10. Battle of Roncevaux Pass (824) / Valcarlos

    824 Early Middle Ages Roncevaux Pass / Pamplona–Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port road (Valcarlos / Luzaide sometimes linked; exact site debated as in 778)

    Defeat

  11. Battle of Fontenoy-en-Puisaye

    841 Early Middle Ages Fontenoy-en-Puisaye (Yonne), Burgundy / Puisaye (modern France)

    Victory

  12. Siege of Chartres

    911 Early Middle Ages Chartres, Kingdom of West Francia (modern France)

    Victory

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How to read these distances

Distances are measured in a straight line between your position and the site historians agree on for each battle. For engagements spread over days or dozens of kilometres — Verdun, the Somme, the Marne — the marker shows the heart of the fighting, not the entire front.

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