Structured facts from The War Atlas battles catalogue: 3,010 battles across 493 wars, with dates, coordinates (with precision provenance), results, source-cited force-strength and casualty ranges, commanders, factions, and source references.
This repo mirrors the canonical dataset published at thewaratlas.co/data — the live site regenerates these files as the catalogue expands, so the site copy may be newer than this mirror. See manifest.json for the version stamp of this snapshot.
| File | Rows | One row per |
|---|---|---|
battles.csv |
3,010 | Battle — slug, title, war, campaign, year, dates, location, lat/lng with coordinate precision + source provenance, result, intensity, confidence, Wikidata QID, Wikipedia URL, canonical URL, is_indexable honesty flag |
battle_forces.csv |
3,905 | Force-strength estimate — battle, side, low–high range, confidence, source |
battle_casualties.csv |
2,713 | Casualty estimate — battle, side, low–high range, confidence, source |
wars.csv |
493 | War — slug, title, era, period, start/end years, status, Wikidata QID, URL |
commanders.csv |
8,012 | Commander — slug, name, primary faction, birth/death years, Wikidata QID, URL |
factions.csv |
425 | Faction — slug, name, Wikidata QID, URL |
sources.csv |
19,020 | Source reference — slug, type, title, identifier |
battles.json |
3,010 | Nested battle records: forces[], casualties[], commanders[], source slugs[] |
manifest.json |
— | Row counts, generation timestamp, version, license, citation string |
Force and casualty figures are kept as low–high ranges with per-row confidence levels and source references, exactly as harvested — no false precision. Battles with no reliable figures simply have no rows in the sub-files; nothing is padded or imputed. Coordinates carry coord_precision (exact vs. place-level vs. approximate) and coord_source provenance.
Entity data is normalized largely from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia infoboxes, cross-linked into a single relational catalogue. This dataset contains structured facts only — harvested Wikipedia prose (CC BY-SA) is deliberately excluded so the compilation can be licensed CC BY 4.0.
CC BY 4.0. You may share and adapt this data for any purpose, including commercially, with attribution:
Data: The War Atlas — thewaratlas.co, CC BY 4.0
The War Atlas (2026). The War Atlas Open Dataset [Data set].
https://thewaratlas.co/data
Every row links back to a live, human-readable page — interactive battle maps with campaign playback, commander timelines, and cross-cuts by era, theater, year, and faction — at thewaratlas.co.