{"product_id":"the-fifteen-decisive-battles-of-the-world-from-marathon-to-waterloo-decisive-battles-9781981691913","title":"The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo: Decisive Battles","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecisive Battles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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 who look upon the Appeal of Battle as occasionally unavoidable in international controversies, concur in thinking it a deplorable necessity, only to be resorted to when all peaceful modes of arrangement have been vainly tried; and when the law of self-defence justifies a State, like an individual, in using force to protect itself from imminent and serious injury. For a writer, therefore, of the present day to choose battles for his favourite topic, merely because they were battles, merely because so many myriads of troops were arrayed in them, and so many hundreds or thousands of human beings stabbed, hewed, or shot each other to death during them, would argue strange weakness or depravity of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER I.--THE BATTLE OF MARATHON.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER II. -- DEFEAT OF THE ATHENIANS AT SYRACUSE, B.C.413.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER III. -- THE BATTLE OF ARBELA, B.C. 331.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER IV. -- THE BATTLE OF THE METAURUS, B.C. 207.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER V. -- VICTORY OF ARMINIUS OVER THE ROMAN LEGIONS UNDER VARUS, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VI -- THE BATTLE OF CHALONS, A.D. 451.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VII. -- THE BATTLE OF TOURS, A.D. 732, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VIII. -- THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS, 1066.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER IX. -- JOAN OF ARC'S VICTORY OVER THE ENGLISH AT ORLEANS, A.D.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER X. -- THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA, A.D. 1588.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XI. -- THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, 1704.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XII. -- THE BATTLE OF PULTOWA, 1709.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XIII. -- VICTORY OF THE AMERICANS OVER BURGOYNE AT SARATOGA, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XIV. -- THE BATTLE OF VALMY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER XV. -- THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, 1815.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50367012503826,"sku":"9781981691913","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_abaf0b66-d3c5-462b-b0b9-a7d12dd9db93.jpg?v=1728483627","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fifteen-decisive-battles-of-the-world-from-marathon-to-waterloo-decisive-battles-9781981691913","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}