In November 1943, Allied forces threw themselves against Japanese positions at Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts, resulting in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign.

The fiercest fighting of the battle — and the second bloodiest day of the Civil War — occurred on May 3 as Lee launched multiple attacks against the Union position at Chancellorsville, resulting in heavy losses on both sides.

This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II.

The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the war ; by the time fighting paused in late autumn 1916, the forces involved had suffered more than 1 million casualties, making it one of the bloodiest military operations ever recorded.

In 1985, the size of the LCOSF ( Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces ) was increased to 108, 800 and fighting increased throughout the country, making 1985 the bloodiest year of the war.

In all, April, May and early June represented the bloodiest months of fighting since the end of hostilities.

Thereafter, Nuristan remained a scene of some of the bloodiest guerrilla fighting with the Soviet forces from 1979 through 1989.

The period of Wood's governorship had the hardest and bloodiest fighting of America's occupation of Moroland.

The next day, February 5, 1994, a mortar exploded in Sarajevo ’ s Markale market, leaving 68 dead and 200 injured in what was so far the bloodiest incident in Sarajevo in the 22 months of fighting.

In an isolated incident near Île d ' Aix, the crew of the vastly outgunned corvette Bayonnaise boarded the British Ambuscade and won her, in some of the bloodiest hand-to-hand fighting of 1798.

It is said to stand on the spot of some of the bloodiest fighting, from where Napoleon ordered the retreat of his army.

The Jason Russell House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts, the site of the bloodiest fighting on the first day of the Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 ( the Battle of Lexington and Concord ).

They clashed with the French under the Duc de Villars at the Battle of Malplaquet, the bloodiest battle of the war.

** Battle of Antietam: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the bloodiest day in U. S. history ( with over 22, 000 casualties ).

The battle was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250, 000 men and resulting in at least 70, 000 casualties.

A young boy, Bugler John Cook, served in the U. S. Army at the age of 15 and received the Medal of Honor for his acts during the Civil War Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.

One of the bloodiest engagements ever fought in the Shenandoah Valley took place on June 5, 1864 at the Battle of Piedmont, a Union victory that allowed the Union Army to occupy Staunton and destroy many of the facilities that supported the Confederate war effort.

The Battle of Borodino (, Borodinskoe srazhenie ; ), fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia and all Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250, 000 troops and resulting in at least 70, 000 casualties.

With at least 72, 000 casualties on both sides, it was also the bloodiest military engagement of the entire Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars thus far.

Dead soldiers lie where they fell at Battle of Antietam | Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.

The first major battle between the two armies, at the Russian defenses of Borodino, was one of the bloodiest single days in human history, with estimates of at least 65, 000 dead.

One of the bloodiest battles in Zhuang history was that at Big Rattan Gorge against the Yao in 1465, where 20, 000 deaths were reported.

Hopes for a quick end to an insurgency and a withdrawal of U. S. troops were dashed at the advent of May, Iraq's bloodiest month since the invasion of U. S. forces in March and April 2003.

In September, he was forced to evacuate Chattanooga, but counterattacked Rosecrans and defeated him at the Battle of Chickamauga, the bloodiest battle in the Western Theater, and the only major Confederate victory therein.

* Afghanistan celebrates its Independence Day amid one of the bloodiest weeks in a year, with heavily armed guerrillas killing at least nine police officers in the latest in a string of ambushes.

* Bennigsen vs Napoleon at Heilsberg 1807: one of the bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic Wars

The bloodiest single day of these " troubles " ( as they were known at the time ) in Dublin was Bloody Sunday on November 21, 1920, when the Michael Collins ' " Squad " assassinated 18 British agents ( see Cairo gang ) around the city in the early hours of the morning.

Hopes for a quick end to an insurgency and a withdrawal of U. S. troops where dashed at the advent of May, the Iraq's bloodiest month since the invasion of U. S. forces in March and April 2003.

In the bloodiest incident, at least 24 Russian OMON officers were killed and more than 30 wounded when two units ( from Podolsk and Sergiyev Posad ) fired on each other in Grozny on 2 March 2000.

He was wounded twice at the Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the bloodiest engagements of the war for both sides.

Lecter is eight years old at the beginning of the novel ( 1941 ), living in Lecter Castle in Lithuania, when Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, turns the Baltic region into a part of the bloodiest front line of World War II.

If we also take into account the thousands of Scottish troops who died in the civil wars in England and Ireland ( another 20, 000 soldiers at least ), the Wars of the Three Kingdoms certainly represents one of the bloodiest episodes in Scottish history.

Tokugawa Ieyasu would raise an army of 90, 000 and confront Ishida Mitsunari's forces at Sekigahara in what would be one of the bloodiest battles in the Sengoku Era.

Colonel Puller would lead the 1st Marines into the protracted battle on Peleliu, one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history during September and October 1944, action where he was awarded his first Legion of Merit.

At Antietam, his corps launched the first assault of the bloodiest day in American history, driving south into the corps of Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson, where they fought each other to a standstill.

The regiment also took part in the capture of Delhi and Agra, as well as the Battle of Leswaree, where they performed with great courage in one of the bloodiest of battles.

* March 21-At least 500 Maoist rebels, 11 soldiers and 7 policemen are killed and 200 injured in one of the bloodiest gunfights with security forces in Myagdi District in western Nepal, 450 km west of Kathmandu where the rebels attacked a district headquarters, freed some prisoners from a jail and looted a bank, according to the Nepalese army.

Since 1990 several trials against former ZOMO members and their political leaders took place, most prominently in the case of the massacre in the Wujek Coal Mine ( where nine people were killed and 21 wounded when Katowice's Special Platoon opened fire on the striking miners in 1981 in the bloodiest incident of the martial law era ).

The regiment then returned to England where it stayed until the outbreak of World War I, when it became part of the British Expeditionary Force and saw action continually from 1914 to 1918 in some of the war's bloodiest battles.

On the 11th, the regiment fought in the bloodiest battle of the war: Malplaquet.

He assumed command of 9th SS Panzer Division for a brief period stretching from June 30 to July 10, 1944 — one of the bloodiest periods for the division as they tried to stem the incoming British and Canadian soldiers bound for Caen.