100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the PresentBloomsbury Academic, 2000 M01 1 - 474 pages Key battles have shaped history since time immemorial. This handy reference work spotlights 100 of the world's most important military confrontations, from 1469 B.C.–A.D. 1991. |
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... early years of the eighteenth century B.C. , the power of Egypt's Middle Kingdom was waning . That coincided with the immigration of the Hyksos , a Semitic population probably from the region of Palestine , that used superior weaponry ...
... early years of the eighteenth century B.C. , the power of Egypt's Middle Kingdom was waning . That coincided with the immigration of the Hyksos , a Semitic population probably from the region of Palestine , that used superior weaponry ...
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... early third century . The Goths were not merely roaming about looking for a place to live , but active in raiding and pillaging as they migrated . By 270 , they had cut a swath through the Balkans as far as Greece before they were ...
... early third century . The Goths were not merely roaming about looking for a place to live , but active in raiding and pillaging as they migrated . By 270 , they had cut a swath through the Balkans as far as Greece before they were ...
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... early May 1864 , Grant led about 100,000 men into northern Virginia to attempt just that . At the same time , Grant's successor in the western theater , General William T. Sherman , was beginning his own offensive . His Union forces ...
... early May 1864 , Grant led about 100,000 men into northern Virginia to attempt just that . At the same time , Grant's successor in the western theater , General William T. Sherman , was beginning his own offensive . His Union forces ...
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Megiddo 1479 B C | 1 |
Syracuse 415413 B C | 18 |
Gaugamela Arbela 331 B C | 31 |
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