The engagements of the Wars of Westeros
Game of Thrones Battles
The named engagements that turned the wars of A Song of Ice and Fire — from the Field of Fire that won Aegon his crown to the fights of the War of the Five Kings and the darker battles fought north of the Wall. Grouped by war; each with its own page.
Aegon's Conquest
- 1 BCThe Field of FireTwo of the Seven Kingdoms' armies joined against the invader and were burned where they stood — the single bloodiest afternoon of Aegon's Conquest.A field in the Reach, astride the road the western and southern hosts marched to meet Aegon's landing.
- 2 – 1 BCThe Last StormThe last of the Storm Kings died beneath his own walls, and a new house rose from the field to hold them in his place.Before the walls of Storm's End, in the stormlands.
The First Blackfyre Rebellion
Robert's Rebellion
- 283 ACThe Battle of the TridentThe rebellion's outcome was decided in a single crossing of the Trident, where the rebel who would be king met the crown prince in the shallows, and only one man rose again.The Ruby Ford of the Trident, in the riverlands.
- 283 ACThe Battle of the BellsA wounded rebel hid in a town that rang its bells while a royal army searched every house for him, and the search cost the crown its Hand.The town of Stoney Sept, in the riverlands.
- 283 ACThe Sack of King's LandingA Lannister army came to King's Landing under a banner of loyalty and left it a slaughterhouse, ending a mad king's reign in a fire that never quite got lit.King's Landing.
- 283 ACThe Skirmish at the Tower of JoyThe rebellion's last fight was fought after the rebellion was already won, at a tower in Dorne that three of the finest knights in the realm chose to die defending rather than explain.A lonely tower in the red mountains of Dorne.
The Greyjoy Rebellion
The War of the Five Kings
- 298 ACThe Whispering WoodA fifteen-year-old lord led his father's bannermen through a wood by night, and the besieging army outside Riverrun woke to a defeat it had not seen coming — the war's first true northern victory.The Whispering Wood, outside the besieged walls of Riverrun.
- 299 ACThe Battle of OxcrossThe Young Wolf carried the war into the Lannisters' own homeland and broke the last army standing between him and Casterly Rock's undefended lands.Oxcross, in the westerlands.
- 298 ACThe Battle of the CampsAn army that had just lost its commander in the dark found the dark was not finished with it — the siege it had come to win did not survive the same night.The Lannister camps ringing Riverrun, on both banks of the Tumblestone.
- 299 ACThe Battle of the BlackwaterThe most storied siege of the war ended in a single night, when the river itself turned to fire and a relief force nobody in the city had been told to expect arrived just in time.The Blackwater Rush, before the gates of King's Landing.
- 299 ACThe Battle of the FordsA young lord held every crossing an enemy army tried and called it the finest day of his life — though the histories judge it rather less kindly than he did.The fords of the Red Fork of the Trident, in the riverlands.
Beyond the Wall
- 300 ACThe Battle of Castle BlackA castle held by a garrison a hundredth the size of the army outside it did not fall, and the reasons why arrived, quite literally, by sea.Castle Black, upon the Wall.
- 299 ACThe Fist of the First MenA ranging sent to find missing brothers and answer old rumors camped atop an ancient ringfort for safety, and found out in the worst way that nowhere beyond the Wall is as safe as it looks.The Fist of the First Men, an ancient ringfort in the haunted forest beyond the Wall.
- 300 ACHardhomeA rescue mission sent to save thousands of starving refugees returned instead with a report so grim that the men who carried it struggled to make anyone above the Wall believe it.Hardhome, a ruined fishing town on the shores beyond the Wall.
Which battles are covered here?
A selection of the engagements the chronicle turns on — the battles a reader of the novels meets most often, grouped by the war they belong to. It is a working field guide, not an exhaustive order of battle: each fight given its own page, with the forces, commanders, and outcome.
Are these from the books or the show?
Book canon. Each account follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.