Most Significant Battles in History

[kevsharr]

This does'nt qualify as a decisive battle but I'd have to say Hitler's refusal to see the importance of Moscow as of prime importance for the winning of the war in the east.All road's and rairoad's spread out from Moscow,the Tran's Siberian railroad had it's terminus in Moscow.If he had ignored his flank's which with the state of the Red Army at the time he could have been in Moscow well before winter set in.No lend lease no factory shift's to the east,the world would be a different place now!

[Chiteng]

I am sorry, Stalingrad however important is not THAT important.

Germany had no chance of winning the war. None.
That is my flat opinion. If not Stalingrad then some other location. Disaster remains disaster.

Negotiated peace I cant say. Winning a military
victory, flatly immpossible.

I would have said Pharsulus(sp?)
But I suppose Pompei would have been much like
Caesar.

[Chiteng]

Unknown Enemy,

The german scientists made a simple but crucial
technological mistake in their bomb developement.
There is a book that goes into great detail,
all I recall is that the U-235 storage could have been done a different way and would have much
better results. By not focusing on a U-235 device
they doomed themselves to yet another 3-4 years
AT A MINIMUM. Maybe even longer. They had the right idea, just bad implementation. So the upshot is that they could have built a dirty
bomb that slowly poisioned everyone in the target
area, but they could not have gotten a 'big bang'

Coupled with this was a terrible lab accident
where their entire supply of refined Uranium
was exposed to the air and exploded in flame.
Burning Uranium causes a fine mist of alpha
emiting particles that is VERY deadly.
The entire site was sealed off. I dont know
what happened to it post war.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Thanks for the info Chiteng !