Most Humiliating Defeats in Military History

The Top Ten

  1. Soviet Union vs Finland winter war - 1939

    Almost 400,000 men vs 2,319 huh wonder how this goes oh wait I know the fins killed almost all the soviets because the soviets had know knowledge of the terrain while the Finns basically lived in the terrain so they had a advantage because they knew where the soviets would go based on the roads and would ambush the soviets causing them to not be able to advance.

    BENIS MY FRIENDS!

    More than 100,000 soviets were slaughtered by a much smaller number of finns, stopping the soviet advance deeper into Finland.

  2. Spanish Armada - 1588

    A seemingly Invincible fleet of Spanish ships defeated by a weaker but more determined English fleet. The battle would have marked the end of England had the Spanish Succeeded.

  3. Battle of Marathon - 490BC

    The defeat of a massive Persian army by the outnumbered and unprepared Athenians.

  4. Battle of Salamis - 480BC

    The Persian Navy defeated by the outnumbered Greeks that made Persia abandon all efforts to conquer the Greek states.

  5. Mongol invasion of China, under Genghis Khan

    A horde of nomad horsemen brought down an advanced civilization which is China.

  6. Battle of Teutoburg Forest - 9AD

    A very humiliating defeat for the Mighty Roman Army by Germanic barbarians that some say marked the beginning of the end for Rome.

    Cool list, thanks for making it.

  7. Battle of Carrhae - 53BC

    A case of bad tactics led to the Romans being slaughtered by the technologically inferior Parthians near the town of Carrhae.

  8. Battle of Agincourt - 1415

    The French army was helpless when arrows fired by English Longbow men rained down on them.

  9. Battle of Cannae - 216BC

    Defeat of the Roman army by Hannibal that nearly marked the end of Rome.

  10. Battle of Karansebes - 1788

    This was a case of friendly fire in which an army destroyed itself without the presence of the enemy.

    11. The Newcomers
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    Retreat from Kabul - 1842

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    Fall of Saigon - 1975

    13. The Contenders

  13. The Battle of France - 1940

    Sorry. Just found the historical name of said battle.

  14. Bay of Pigs Invasion - 1961

  15. Battle of Stalingrad - 1943

  16. The Russo-Japanese War - 1905

    Tsar Nicholas wanted an easy war to make his people. The Russian army was smashed by the much smaller force from Japan, resulting in a humiliating defeat for the Russians.

  17. Battle of Sedan - 1870

  18. Battle of Jena-Auerstedt - 1806

    To me it's Jena-Auerstedt and its overall campaign.

    Napoleon's Grande Armée obliterated the proud Prussian army in a mere month. It's a worse humiliation than what Germany did to France in WWII.

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