The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
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Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has been read and re-read for close to 150 years. It is not only the authoritative account of each battle that makes Creasy's work such a classic--it is his command of narrative, his interest in human struggle, his profound deductions as to effects of the battles, and his striving after truth. Furthermore, his selections seem as wise and well-considered today as when Fifteen Decisive Battles first appeared in 1851: Nobody since has made better ones, nor given...
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- THE FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD FROM MARATHON TO WATERLOO
- PREFACE.
- DETAILED CONTENTS.
- THE FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD.
- CHAPTER I.—THE BATTLE OF MARATHON.
- CHAPTER II. — DEFEAT OF THE ATHENIANS AT SYRACUSE, B.C.413.
- CHAPTER III. — THE BATTLE OF ARBELA, B.C. 331.
- CHAPTER IV. — THE BATTLE OF THE METAURUS, B.C. 207.
- CHAPTER V. — VICTORY OF ARMINIUS OVER THE ROMAN LEGIONS UNDER VARUS,
- CHAPTER VI — THE BATTLE OF CHALONS, A.D. 451.
- CHAPTER VII. — THE BATTLE OF TOURS, A.D. 732,
- CHAPTER VIII. — THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS, 1066.
- CHAPTER IX. — JOAN OF ARC'S VICTORY OVER THE ENGLISH AT ORLEANS, A.D.
- CHAPTER X. — THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA, A.D. 1588.
- CHAPTER XI. — THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, 1704.
- CHAPTER XII. — THE BATTLE OF PULTOWA, 1709.
- CHAPTER XIII. — VICTORY OF THE AMERICANS OVER BURGOYNE AT SARATOGA,
- CHAPTER XIV. — THE BATTLE OF VALMY.
- CHAPTER XV. — THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, 1815.
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