From 5,000 BCE to the present, what battle, lasting no longer then 24 hours, holds the record for being the bloodiest on record (the greatest number of combatants killed or wounded)?

boyscout

Whenever the 'History Channel' on cable television refers to a date that occurred before the birth of Jesus of Nazarath they use the term BCE (Before the Common Era) and I haven't heard them use B.C. for a long long time. I simply assumed that BCE had replaced B.C. as the proper jargon of the archeological community. Is that true or false? May 21 02, 8:01 PM

Fosse4

Two amswers in one - BCE - the politically correct way of saying 2002 is the year after 1 in the Christian Calender without offending other religions. The battle according to Guiness was the battle of Chalons sur Marne in +451 of the current numbering system (451 AD) 200,000 allegedly killed in one day. May 21 02, 8:23 PM