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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Page 7
... sent messages to his allies , detailing his military needs for the next season's campaign . Cyrus met with his advisors after the battle and received much the same counsel : go home for the winter and start up again next spring . Here ...
... sent messages to his allies , detailing his military needs for the next season's campaign . Cyrus met with his advisors after the battle and received much the same counsel : go home for the winter and start up again next spring . Here ...
Page 16
... sent ships to sail both directions around Salamis , the Greeks would be bottled up in a very small area , but Themistocles placed his fleet in that dangerous position to tempt the Per- sians to attack rather than bypass the fleet and ...
... sent ships to sail both directions around Salamis , the Greeks would be bottled up in a very small area , but Themistocles placed his fleet in that dangerous position to tempt the Per- sians to attack rather than bypass the fleet and ...
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... sent a mes- senger to Pizarro , stating that he would visit on the morrow instead of late on this day , 16 November . Pizarro's men had had their nerves stretched to the breaking point by the long day that they had spent in hiding , and ...
... sent a mes- senger to Pizarro , stating that he would visit on the morrow instead of late on this day , 16 November . Pizarro's men had had their nerves stretched to the breaking point by the long day that they had spent in hiding , and ...
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Megiddo 1479 B C | 1 |
Syracuse 415413 B C | 18 |
Gaugamela Arbela 331 B C | 31 |
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