Battle Rattle

On a small hillock in a remote ridge on a forgotten frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan sat a small signal tower in a dusty village. In 1897, the 22 Sikh soldiers employed by the British army operating this signal tower were surrounded by at least 8,000 Pashtun warriors. They were invited to surrender, but their response would make Saragarhi one of the most impressive last stands in the annals of military history.

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The Roman Legions were the height of military professionalism of their day. How, then, was a young Roman officer able to cobble together a loose federation of lightly armed Germanic tribesmen and hand Rome one of her most disastrous defeats? All of this right under the nose of his commanding officer? Love, betrayal, fate…The Battle of Teutoburg Forest has it all, and that is why it is a battle you might not know, but should.

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Besides it getting made into a country folk song, the Battle of New Orleans has largely been forgotten. Which is a shame, because rarely has such a motley crew of fighters—US soldiers, US sailors, American backwoodsmen, American Indians, Frenchmen, free Blacks, American militia, hat-makers and blacksmiths and grocery store clerks and probably some others—able to withstand the mighty British Army. The same British Army that had just finished off Napoleon. The fact that Andrew Jackson was able to successfully defend the entire Gulf of Mexico, from Florida to Louisiana, by beating back a land invasion in the swamps below New Orelans is why The Battle of New Orleans is a battle you might not know, but should.

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There is room to argue that The Battle of Monongahela is the most "underrated" battle ever. After all, it sparked the world's first real world war, it shifted the boundaries of huge swaths of North America, it lit the fire of revolution in Colonial Americans, and it helped shape the military futures of numerous British and American military leaders, including George Washington. Today, though, it barely earns brief mention in textbooks and is memorialized by a roadside sign. And that's why Monongahela is a battle you might not know, but should.

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