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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... fleet in that dangerous position to tempt the Per- sians to attack rather than bypass the fleet and march directly for the Spartan defensive posi- tion at the Corinthian isthmus . Meanwhile , Xerxes's army overwhelmed the Acropolis and ...
... fleet in that dangerous position to tempt the Per- sians to attack rather than bypass the fleet and march directly for the Spartan defensive posi- tion at the Corinthian isthmus . Meanwhile , Xerxes's army overwhelmed the Acropolis and ...
Page 100
... fleet kept any supplies from reaching the city . That fleet numbered some 1,800 ships , carrying another 80,000 men un- der the command of a general named Suleiman , not to be confused with the caliph . The Mos- lem fleet was to be ...
... fleet kept any supplies from reaching the city . That fleet numbered some 1,800 ships , carrying another 80,000 men un- der the command of a general named Suleiman , not to be confused with the caliph . The Mos- lem fleet was to be ...
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... fleet mistakenly fired on and sank British fishing boats off the Dogger Banks , creating an international incident that came perilously close to war . Rozhdestvenski then divided his fleet , half sailing around the Cape of Good Hope ...
... fleet mistakenly fired on and sank British fishing boats off the Dogger Banks , creating an international incident that came perilously close to war . Rozhdestvenski then divided his fleet , half sailing around the Cape of Good Hope ...
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Megiddo 1479 B C | 1 |
Syracuse 415413 B C | 18 |
Gaugamela Arbela 331 B C | 31 |
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