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Battles that changed history, an encyclopedia of world conflict, Spencer C. Tucker

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Battles that changed history

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Spencer C. Tucker

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an encyclopedia of world conflict

Covers the most decisive and important battles throughout world history, interpreted by a noted military historian

Battle of Megiddo (May 1479 BCE) -- Battle of Kadesh (1298 BCE) -- Siege of Troy (1194-1184 BCE) -- Battle of Thymbra (546 BCE) -- Siege of Babylon (539-538 BCE) -- Battle of Marathon (490 BCE) -- Battle of Thermopylae (ca. August 19, 480 BCE) -- Battle of Salamis (ca. Septmeber 20, 480 BCE) -- Battles of Plataea and Mycale (September 479 BCE) -- Siege of Plataea (428-427 BCE) -- Siege of Syracuse (415-413 BCE) -- Siege of Veii (404-396 BCE) -- Battle of Leuctra (July 371 BCE) -- Battle of Chaeronea (August 4, 338 BCE) -- Battle of the Granicus (May 334 BCE) -- Battle of Issus (November 333 BCE) -- Sieges of Tyre and Gaza (332 BCE) -- Battle of Gaugamela (October 1, 331 BCE) -- Battle of Ipsus (Spring 301 BCE) -- Battle of Cannae (August 2, 216 BCE) -- Siege of Syracuse (213-212 BCE) -- Battle of the Metaurus River (207 BCE) -- Battle of Zama (202 BCE) -- Battle of Gaixia (December 202 BCE) -- Battle of Pydna (June 22, 168 BCE) -- Siege of Carthage (149-146 BCE) -- Siege of Alesia (July-October 52 BCE) -- Battle of Pharsalus (August 9, 48 BCE) -- Battle of Actium (September 2, 31 BCE) -- Battle of the Teutoburg forest (9 CE) -- Battle of Beth-Horon (October 66) -- Battle of the Milvian Bridge (October 28, 312) -- Battle of Adrianople (August 9, 378) -- Battle of Chalons (Summer [July?] 451) -- Battle of Tricameron (533) -- Battle of Badr (March 15, 624) -- Battle of Yarmouk River (August 636) -- Siege of Constantinople (August 15, 717-August 15, 718) -- Battle of Tours (October 25, 732) -- Siege of Pavia (773-774) -- Battle of Lechfeld (August 10, 955) --Battle of Hastings (October 14, 1066) -- Battle of Manzikert (August 19, 1071) -- Siege of Jerusalem (June 7-July 18, 1099) -- Battle of Hattin (July 4, 1147) -- Siege of Acre (August 28, 1189-July 12, 1191) -- Second battle of Taraori (1192) -- Battle of Bouvines (July 27, 1214) -- Battle of the Sajo River (April 11, 1241) -- Battle of Hakata Bay (August 14-15, 1281) -- Battle of Bannockburn (June 23-24, 1314) -- battle of Sluys (June 24, 1340) -- Battle of Crecy (August 26, 1346) -- Battle of Poitiers (September 19, 1356) -- Battle of Kosovo (June 15, 1389) -- Battle of Ankara (July 20, 1402) -- Battle of Agincourt (October 25, 1415) -- Siege of Orleans (1428-1429) -- Siege of Constantinople (April 6-May 29, 1453) -- Battle of Bosworth Field (August 22, 1485) -- Siege of Granada (1491-1492) -- Battle of Flodden Field (September 9, 1513) -- Siege of Tenochtitlan (May 26-August 13, 1521) -- Siege of Rhodes (July 28-December 21, 1522) -- Battle of Pavia (February 24, 1525) -- Battle of Panipat (April 21, 1526) -- Battle of Mohacs (August 29, 1526) -- Siege of Vienna (September 27-October 14, 1529) -- Battle of Cajamarca (November 16, 1532) -- Siege of Malta (May 18-September 8, 1565) -- Battle of Lepanto (October 7, 1571) -- Siege of Antwerp (July 1584-August 17, 1585) -- Spanish armada (1588) -- Battle of Sekigahara (October 21, 1600) -- Siege of Breda (August 28, 1624-June 5, 1625) -- Siege of La Rochelle (August 1627-October 28, 1628) -- Battle of Breitenfeld (September 17, 1631) -- Battle of Lutzen (November 16, 1632) --Battle of Nordlingen (September 6, 1634) -- Battle of Rocroi (May 19, 1643) -- Battle of Shanhaiguan (May 28, 1644) -- Battle of Marson Moor (July 2, 1644) -- Battle of Naseby (June 15, 1645) -- Battle of Portland (February 18-20, 1653) -- Battle of the Dunes (June 14, 1658) -- Siege and battle of Vienna (July 14-September 12, 1683) -- Battle of Blenheim (August 13, 1704) -- Battle of Ramillies (May 23, 1706) -- Battle of Poltava (July 8, 1709) -- Battle of Belgrade (August 16, 1717) -- Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746) -- Battle of Rossbach (November 5, 1757) -- Battle of Leuthen (December 5, 1757) -- Battle of Plassey (June 23, 1757) -- Battle of the Plains of Abraham (September 13, 1759) -- Battle of Lake Champlain (October 11-13, 1776) -- Battle of Trenton (December 26, 1776) -- Bttles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) -- Battle of the Chesapeake (September 5, 1781) -- Siege of Yorktown (September 28-October 19, 1781) -- Battle of the Saints (April 12, 1782) -- Battle of Hanoi (January 30, 1789) -- Battle of Valmy (September 20, 1792) -- British capture of Toulon (August 27, 1793) -- Battle of Fallen Timbers (August 20, 1794) -- Battle of Rivoli (January 14, 1797) -- Battle of Cape St. Vincent (February 14, 1797) -- Battle of the Nile (August 1, 1798) -- Battle of Hohenlinden (December 3, 1800) -- First battle of Copenhagen (April 2, 1801) -- Battle of Trafalgar (October 21, 1805) -- Battle of Austerlitz (December 2, 1805) -- Battles of Jena and Auerstadt (October 14, 1806) --Sieges of Zaragoza (June 15-August 17, 1808, and December 20, 1808-February 20, 1809) -- Battle of Tippecanoe (November 7, 1811) -- Battle of Borodino (September 7, 1812) -- Battle of Lake Erie (September 10, 1813) -- Battle of Leipzig (October 16-19, 1813) -- Battles of Lake Champlain and Plattsburgh (September 11, 1814) -- Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) -- Battle of Ayacucho (December 9, 1824) -- Battle of Navarino Bay (Octover 20, 1827) -- Battle of Mexico City (September 13-15, 1847) -- Battle of Nanjing (March 20, 1853) -- Battle of Sinop (November 30, 1853) -- Battle of Inkerman (November 5, 1854) -- Siege of Sevastopol (October 17, 1855-September 9, 1856) -- Battle of Kinburn (October 17, 1855) -- Battle of Solferino (June 24, 1859) -- Battle of Hampton Roads (March 9, 1862) -- Battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862) -- Battle of Chancellorsville (May 2-4, 1863) -- Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) -- Siege of Vicksburg (May 22-June 4, 1863) -- Battle of Mobile Bay (August 5, 1864) -- Battle of Koniggratz (July 3, 1866) -- Battle of Lissa (July 20, 1866) -- Battle of Gravelotte-St. Privat (August 18, 1870) -- Battle of Sedan (September 1-2, 1870) -- Siege of Paris (September 19, 1870-January 28, 1871) -- Siege of Pleven (July 19-December 10, 1877) -- Battle of Tel el Kebir (September 13, 1882) -- Battle of the Yellow Sea (September 17, 1894) -- Battle of Manila Bay (May 1, 1898) -- Battle of Omdurman (September 2, 1898) -- Siege of Beijing (June 20-August 14, 1900) --Siege of Port Arthur (February 8, 1904-January 2, 1905) -- Battle of Mukden (February 21-March 10, 1905) -- Battle of Tsushima (May 27, 1905) -- Siege of Liege (August 5-16, 1914) -- Battle of Tannenberg (August 26-31, 1914) -- First battle of the Marne (September 5-12, 1914) -- Dardanelles campaign (February 19-March 22, 1915) -- Gallipoli campaign (April 25, 1915) -- Second battle of Ypres (April 22-May 25, 1915) -- Siege of Kut (December 7, 1915-April 29, 1916) -- Battle of Verdun (February 21-July 20, 1916) -- Battle of the Somme (July 1-November 19, 1916) -- Battle of Jutland (May 31-Jun3 1, 1916) -- Brusilov offensive (June 4-September 1, 1916) -- Battle of Caporetto (October 24-November 12, 1917) -- Battle of Cambrai (November 20-December 5, 1917) -- Ludendorff offensive (March 21-July 18, 1918) -- Second battle of the Marne (July 15-18, 1918) -- Battle for Warsaw (August 16-August 25, 1920) -- Siege of the Alcazar (July 20-September 28, 1936) -- Guernica bombing (April 26, 1937) -- Battle of Shanghai (August 14-November 9, 1937) -- Battle of the Ebro (July 26-November 16, 1938) -- Dunkirk evacuation (May 26-June 4, 1940) -- Battle of Britain (July 10-October 31, 1940) -- Battle of Taranto (November 11, 1940) -- Battle of Crete (May 20-31, 1941) -- Siege of Leningrad (July 10, 1941-January 27, 1944) -- Battle of Moscow (September 30, 1941-April 1942) -- Pearl Harbor attack (December 7, 1941) -- Battle of Bataan (January 7-April 9, 1942) -- Battle of Singapore (February 8-15, 1942) -- Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7-8, 1942) --Battle of Midway (June 3-6, 1942) -- Battle of Guadalcanal (August 7, 1942-February 1943) -- Battle of Savo Island (August 9, 1942) -- Battle of Stalingrad (August 24, 1942-January 31, 1943) -- Battle for El Alamein (October 23-November 4, 1942) -- Battle of Kursk (July 5-13, 1943) -- Regensburg-Schweinfurt raids (August 17 and October 14, 1943) -- Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945) -- Battle for Tarawa (November 20-24, 1943) -- Battle of Anzio (January 22-May 25, 1944) -- Normandy invasion (June 6, 1944) -- Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19-21, 1944) -- Operation Bagration (June 22-August 29, 1944) -- Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 23-26, 1944) -- Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945) -- Dresden bombing (February 13-15, 1945) -- Battle for Iwo Jima (February 19-March 24, 1945) -- Tokyo raid (March 9-10, 1945) -- Battle for Okinawa (April 1-June 21, 1945) -- Battle for Berlin (April 16-May 2, 1945) -- Hiroshima bombing (August 6, 1945) -- Battle of Huaihai (November 7, 1948-January 10, 1949) -- Pusan perimeter defense and breakout (August 5-September 23, 1950) -- Inchon Landing (September 15, 1950) -- Changjin Reservoir campaign (October-December 1950) -- Battle of Dien Bien Phu (November 20, 1953-May 7, 1954) -- Battle of the Ia Drang Valley (October 19-November 20, 1965) -- First and second battles of Khe Sanh (April 24-May 12, 1967, and January 20-April 8, 1968) -- Battle of Golan Heights (October 6-22, 1973) -- Persian Gulf War and the liberation of Kuwait (January 17-March 3, 1991) -- Iraq War (March 19-May 1, 2003)