The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo, by Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.

Member of the Ethnological Society, New York; Late Professor of the English Language and Literature, in University College, London. By his Friend THE AUTHOR. Transcriber's Notes: Capital letters have been used to replace text in italics in the printed text. Accents have been omitted. Footnotes have been inserted into the text enclosed in square [ ] brackets, near the point where they were indicated by a suffix in the text. Greek words in the text have been crudely translated into Western European capital letters. Sincere apologies to Greek scholars! Longer passages in Greek have been omitted and where possible replaced with a reference to the original from which they were taken. It is an honourable characteristic of the Spirit of this Age, that projects of violence and warfare are regarded among civilized states with gradually increasing aversion. The Universal Peace Society certainly does not, and probably never will, enrol the majority of statesmen among its members. But even those w

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