100 decisive battles : from ancient times to the present, Paul K. Davis

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100 decisive battles : from ancient times to the present, Paul K. Davis

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from ancient times to the present

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Paul K. Davis

Instantiates

• 100 decisive battles : from ancient times to the present

Publication

• New York, Oxford University Press, 2001, c1999

Note

Originally published: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 1999

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-451) and index

Contents

• Ipsus (310 B.C.)
• Tet Offensive (1968)
• Desert Storm (1991)
• Metaurus River (207 B.C.)
• Kai-hsia (203 B.C.)
• Zama (202 B.C.)
• Pydna (168 B.C.)
• Alesia (52 B.C.)
• Pharsalus (48 B.C.)
• Actium (31 B.C.)
• Teutoburger Wald (Teutoburg Forest) (A.D. 9)
• Beth-horon (66)
• Megiddo (1479 B.C.)
• Milvian Bridge (312)
• Adrianople (378)
• Châlons (451)
• Tricameron (533)
• Badr (624)
• Constantinople (717-718)
• Tours (Poitiers) (732)
• Pavia (773-774)
• Lechfeld (955)
• Hastings (1066)
• Thymbra (546 B.C.)
• Manzikert (1071)
• Jerusalem (1099)
• Hattin (1187)
• Second Battle of Taraori (1192)
• Bouvines (1214)
• Ain Jalut (1260)
• Hsian-yang (1268-1273)
• Hakata Bay (1274 and 1281)
• Brusa (1317-1326)
• Crécy (1346)
• Marathon (490 B.C.)
• Orléans (1428-1429)
• Constantinople (1453)
• Granada (1491)
• Tenochtitlán (1521)
• Panipat (1526)
• Vienna (1529)
• Cajamarca (1532) -
• Lepanto (1571)
• Spanish Armada (1588)
• Sekigahara (1600)
• Salamis (480 B.C.)
• Breitenfeld (1631)
• Shanhaikuan (1644)
• Naseby (1645)
• Battle of the Dunes (1658)
• Blenheim (1704)
• Poltava (1709)
• Culloden (1746)
• Plassey (1757)
• Quebec (1759)
• Trenton (1776)
• Syracuse (415-413 B.C.)
• Saratoga (1777)
• Yorktown (1781)
• Valmy (1792)
• Rivoli (1797)
• Aboukir Bay (Battle of the Nile) (1798)
• Trafalgar (1805)
• Jena/Auerstädt (1806)
• Prophetstown (Tippecanoe) (1811)
• Borodino (1812)
• Leipzig (Battle of the Nations) (1813)
• Leuctra (371 B.C.)
• Waterloo (1815)
• Ayachuco (1824)
• San Jacinto (1836)
• Mexico City (1847)
• Antietam (Sharpsburg) (1862)
• Gettysburg (1863)
• Atlanta/March to the Sea (1864)
• Sedan (1870)
• Tel el Kebir (1882)
• Manila Bay (1898)
• Chaeronea (338 B.C.)
• Mukden (1905)
• Tsushima (1905)
• Marne, First Battle (1914)
• Verdun (1916)
• Brusilov Offensive (1916)
• Marne, Second Battle (1918)
• Warsaw (1920)
• Poland (1939)
• Dunkirk (1940)
• Battle of Britain (1940)
• Gaugamela (Arbela) (331 B.C.)
• Moscow (1941)
• Pearl Harbor (1941)
• Singapore (1942)
• Midway (1942)
• Normandy (1944)
• Okinawa (1945)
• Israel's War of Independence (1948-1949)
• Huai Hai (Suchow) (1948-1949)
• Inchon (1950)
• Dien Bien Phu (1953-1954)

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45102987

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

xii, 462 pages

Isbn

9780195143669

Isbn Type

(alk. paper)

Lccn

00049183

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illustrations, maps