army with a large contingent of knights was defeated by Henry V's much smaller army. 16th century Battle of Flodden Field (1513). A Scottish invasion of England was defeated, resulting in the death of the popular King James IV of Scotland, as well as most of Scotland's nobles. Spanish Armada (1588). An English fleet sent fire ships into the Spanish invasion fleet destroying some and scattering the rest effectively ending the invasion threat. The Armada would later run into storms and almost half the ships never returned to Spain, as well as more than half of the troops. 18th century Battle of Saratoga (September–October 1777). John Burgoyne's British Army was captured after the battle by the Continental Army under Horatio Gates. 19th century Charge of the Light Brigade (1854). A British cavalry unit charged an active enemy artillery position due to miscommunication and suffered heavy casualties for no real advantage. Battle of Fredericksburg (1862). One-sided battle in which Union Army advanced on entrenched Confederate Army units resulted in very high casualties during the American Civil War. Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 1876). Montana Territory. Lieutenant Colonel George Custer attacked a superior force of armed Lakota Sioux warriors. He was killed and five of the twelve companies of 7th Cavalry Regiment were annihilated. 268 U.S. troopers were killed and 55 were wounded. Battle of Isandlwana (January 22, 1879). In the first major battle of the Anglo-Zulu War, a Zulu impi overwhelmed and defeated two battalions armed with modern rifles and artillery. The battle was a major victory for the Zulus during the opening stages of the war. 20th century Battle of Tsushima (1905) During the Russo-Japanese War, the bulk of the Russian Baltic Fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, sailed over halfway around the world () in order to relieve the blockade by Japan of the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur, but was mostly sunk, scuttled, or surrendered in action against an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō, which took minimal losses. First World War Gallipoli Campaign (April 1915 to January 1916). A combined British, Commonwealth and French attempt to capture Istanbul became a stalemate on the Gallipoli Peninsula and was abandoned with 300,000 casualties. Second World War Battle of Singapore (February 1942). It was the largest surrender of Commonwealth troops in history and destroyed the linchpin of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command. Although the Japanese invasion force was