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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... Land . Once the Holy Land was lost after Saladin's victories , successive attempts to reestablish European dominance failed miserably . Here's the record : • People's Crusade ( April - October 1096 ) : The People's Crusade was an ...
... Land . Once the Holy Land was lost after Saladin's victories , successive attempts to reestablish European dominance failed miserably . Here's the record : • People's Crusade ( April - October 1096 ) : The People's Crusade was an ...
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... land drained by it . He had no idea just how much land that was , but it was everything from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies . This conflicted with the grandiose claims of both Spain and England , but as the three pow- ers had ...
... land drained by it . He had no idea just how much land that was , but it was everything from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies . This conflicted with the grandiose claims of both Spain and England , but as the three pow- ers had ...
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... land from absentee Arab land- lords by 1914 , by which time some 60,000 Jews had moved to Palestine . They did so not only in response to Herzl's book but to escape po- groms in eastern Europe . During World War I , Great Britain's ma ...
... land from absentee Arab land- lords by 1914 , by which time some 60,000 Jews had moved to Palestine . They did so not only in response to Herzl's book but to escape po- groms in eastern Europe . During World War I , Great Britain's ma ...
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Megiddo 1479 B C | 1 |
Syracuse 415413 B C | 18 |
Gaugamela Arbela 331 B C | 31 |
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