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#1
coolest battle is propably burning camels vs armoured poison elephants

Capture of Delhi (1398)
The battle took place on 17 December 1398. Sultan Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq and the army of Mallu Iqbal[79] had war elephants armored with chain mail and poison on their tusks.[9]:267 As his Tatar forces were afraid of the elephants, Timur ordered his men to dig a trench in front of their positions. Timur then loaded his camels with as much wood and hay as they could carry. When the war elephants charged, Timur set the hay on fire and prodded the camels with iron sticks, causing them to charge at the elephants, howling in pain: Timur had understood that elephants were easily panicked. Faced with the strange spectacle of camels flying straight at them with flames leaping from their backs, the elephants turned around and stampeded back toward their own lines. Timur capitalized on the subsequent disruption in the forces of Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq, securing an easy victory. Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq fled with remnants of his forces. Delhi was sacked and left in ruins. Before the battle for Delhi, Timur executed 100,000 captives.[28]
 
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#2
another cool one was when Archimedes built a big mechanical claw that knocked over a bunch of Roman ships and also IIRC he had some kind of mirror weapon to set them on fire
 
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he burned their sails with a bunch of polished sheets of metal and help from the good ol'd U. S. of S.U.N.
 
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imagine if theyd attacked at night all the greeks would have woken up dead and we'd all be speaking roman today
 
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hey not a big battle but remember a few years ago the chinese and indians soldiers started fighting on the mountains clobbering each other with bits of rebar and spin-kickibg each other off of a narrow mountain pass that would of been cool to see
 
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