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Bloodiest is the superlative form of bloody, used in historical and journalistic writing to describe events with the greatest loss of life or destruction within a defined category, such as battles, campaigns, massacres, or wars. The term is neutral in itself, but it is commonly applied when assessing the scale of violence in conflict.

One frequently cited example is the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) on September 17, 1862, which is widely

In terms of total casualties across the course of a battle, Verdun (1916) and the Somme (1916)

regarded
as
the
bloodiest
single
day
in
American
history,
with
roughly
23,000
soldiers
killed,
wounded,
or
missing.
are
often
described
as
among
the
bloodiest
battles
of
World
War
I,
with
hundreds
of
thousands
of
casualties
overall;
Verdun’s
combined
deaths
and
wounded
are
broadly
estimated
in
the
range
of
several
hundred
thousand,
while
the
Somme
surpassed
1
million
casualties
on
both
sides.
In
World
War
II,
the
Battle
of
Stalingrad
(1942–1943)
is
freque