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Analyzes the preludes to twelve decisive Civil War battles the battles themselves and their results
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Of the hundreds of books about the Civil War none so effectively charts the battlebybattle movements of that war as this unique volumeAccompanied by a series of magnificently detailed maps showing the progress of the war in both East and West simultaneously these crisp informative accounts of the principal battles unfold the decisive moments of the war with suspenseful immediacy The maps allow readers to watch the battle lines moving back and forth across the country and to see how each individual battle fits into the whole pattern of the warDecisive Battles of the Civil War is not only a superb reference volume it is also an invaluable guidebook for visitors to these historic battlefields
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A dynamic Civil War book with a fresh angle from an awardwinning writernbsp Bobrick profiles General George H Thomas an overlooked scion of the Civil War and shows the military choices that saved the Unionnbsp Also examined are President Lincoln the causes of the war and the various personalities who have shaped our understanding of the war todaynbsp This compelling book rich with visuals including maps photos original documents and more offers new insights into a key topic for American homes and classrooms A particularly exciting read for boysThe Battle of Nashville is another contribution to Knopfs list of high quality nonfiction such as Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley and Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong
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GB Mallesons The Decisive Battles of India From 1746 to 1849 is a comprehensive history of a critical period of history when the British controlled India as a colonial possession and the fighting against domestic and foreign opponents in their efforts to maintain the colony From the preface This volume contains the story of the conquest of the several races of India by our countrymen To this purpose are devoted eleven out of the twelve chapters of which it is composed The remaining chapter the first in order in the book is the key to all others for it records an event but for the occurrence of which the battles which follow might have been indefinitely postponed It was the victory of Paradis on the Adyar over the army of the native ruler of the Karnatak which inverted the position of the Europeans on the eastern coast and the children of the soil The battles which illustrate the story were all in the truest sense of the term decisive battles It cannot be denied that some of them showed a small list of casualties and in many the numbers on one side at all events were few If I may judge from some criticisms which have appeared this fact alone would be held to be sufficient to remove those battles from the category I claim for them There are some critics who judge of the importance of a battle solely by the amount of the slaughter produced on both sides
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Boston 1775 A town occupied by General Thomas Gages redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside Besieged for two months by a rabble in arms the British decided to break out of town American spies discovered their plans and on the night of June 16 1775 a thousand rebels marched out onto Charlestown peninsula and began digging a redoubt not on Bunker Hill which they had been ordered to fortify but on Breeds Hill well within cannon shot of the British batteries and ships At daybreak HMS Lively began firing It was the opening round of a battle that saw unbelievable heroism and tragic blunders on both sides a battle that marked a point of no return for England and her colonies the beginning of allout war
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Joseph Dahumus describes in 8 chapters medieval warfare in general and 7 specific battles Chalons the Yarmuk Hastings Hattin Bouvines Crecy and Angora the first taking place in 451 and the last in 1402 Huns Arabs Byzantines Crusaders and leaders like Saladin William the Conqueror and Timur the Lame are represented in the book
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One of the most profound events in sixteenthcentury North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within an Indian province known as Mabila Although the Indians were defeated the battle was a decisive blow to Spanish plans for the conquest and settlement of what is now the southeastern United States For in that battle De Sotos army lost its baggage including all proofs of the richness of the landproofs that would be necessary to attract future colonists Facing such a severe setback De Soto led his army once more into the interior of the continent where he was not to survive The ragtag remnants of his oncemighty expedition limped into Mexico some three years later thankful to be alive The clear message of their ordeal was that this new land then known as La Florida could not be easily subjugatednbspBut where exactly did this decisive battle of Mabila take place The accounts left by the Spanish chroniclers provide clues but they are vague so lacking in corroboration that without additional supporting evidence it is impossible to trace De Sotos trail on a modern map with any degree of certainty Within this volume 17 scholarsspecialists in history folklore geography geology and archaeologyprovide a new and encouragingly fresh perspective on the current status of the search for Mabila Although there is a widespread consensus that the event took place in the southern part of what is now Alabama the truth is that to this day nobody knows where Mabila isneither the contributors to this volume nor any of the historians and archaeologists amateur and professional who have long sought it One can rightfully say that the lost battle site of Mabila is the predominant historical mystery of the Deep Southnbsp
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The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after Despite its importance and scopeits battles were the largest military engagements since World War IIuntil now remarkably little has been known about the war and even less about its effects on the societies that suffered through it This major new history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two central questions Why was the war fought What were the immediate and the lasting results of the Communists victory Though the book highlights military matters it also shows how campaigns were mounted alongside profound changes in politics society and culturechanges that ultimately contributed as much to the character of todays China as did the major battles By analyzing the war as an international conflict the author explains why so much of the present legitimacy of the Beijing government derives from its successes during the late 1940s and reveals how the antagonism between China and the United States was born
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to wwwmillionbookscom where you can read more than a million books for free This is an OCR edition with typos Excerpt from book Marathon paid religious rites to them and orators solemnly invoked them in their most impassioned adjurations before the assembled men of Athens Nothing was omitted that could keep alive the remembrance of a deed which had first taught the Athenian people to know its own strength by measuring it with the power which had subdued the greater part of the known world The consciousness thus awakened fixed its character its station and its destiny it was the spring of its later great actions and ambitious enterprises It was not indeed by one defeat however signal that the pride of Persia could be broken and her dreams of universal empire dispelled Ten years afterward she renewed her attempts upon Europe on a grander scale of enterprise and was repulsed by Greece with greater and reiterated loss Larger forces and heavier slaughter than had been seen at Marathon signalized the conflicts of Greeks and Persians at Artemisium Salamis Plataea and the Eurymedon But mighty and momentous as these battles were they rank not with Marathon in importance They originated no new impulse They turned back no current of fate They were merely confirmatory of the already existing bias which Marathon had created The day of Marathon is the critical epoch in the history of the two nations It broke forever the spell of Persian invincibility which had previously paralyzed mens minds It generated among the Greeks the spirit which heat back Xerxes and afterward led on Xenophon Agesilaus and Alexander in terrible retaliation through their Asiatic campaigns It secured for mankind the intellectual treasures of Athens the growth of free institutions the liberal enlightenment of the Western world and the gradual ascendency for many ages of the great principles of European civ
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Throughout history military engagements have altered the course of historical events causing major changes both on a global scale the battles of Yarmouk amp alQadisiyyah in 636 determined the religiouslinguistic orientation of the Middle East that persists today as well as within individual cultures the 1836 battle of San Jacinto gave the United States nearly onethird of its continental territory For these reasons and more the study of pivotal battles is a highly useful analytical tool and an important component for understanding world history In these 36 dynamic lectures Professor Aldrete leads you in discovering the military conflicts that have had the greatest impact in shifting the direction of events and defining our world Across 4000 years of history youll explore nearly 40 key military engagements from the milestone battles of Western civilization to their counterparts in the Middle East India and Asia Through his dramatic and evocative descriptions using special maps and animations Professor Aldrete brings the events vividly alive taking you through the momentbymoment unfolding of each battle Throughout the lectures he uncovers fascinating background material that highlights the drama poignancy and scope of the experience of war This engrossing course provides unique insights into world civilizations by revealing the profound impact of military battles in human history
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Informative wellresearched amp equally wellwritten text accompanied by stunning color amp balck and white photographs and 3dimensional computer graphics maps that recreate the most significant battles of the Vietnam War from Dien Bien Phu to the final Fall of Saigon A high level of military scholarship by a team of experts analyze how the victors prevailed and why plus the computer graphics offer detailed renditions of land topography and troop movements for each battle A mustread for an VietnamMilitary history buff
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Aware of the sensitivity of the Americans toward Hawaii after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto believed that if he attacked there again the US commander Admiral Chester Nimitz would be certain to commit all his strength to its defense Yamamoto selected the the Naval Air Station on the Midway Atoll for his attack which was beyond the range of most US landbased aircraft Yamamoto launched his attack on 4 June 1942 but the US had intercepted and deciphered Japanese signals and Nimitz with three aircraft carriers knew exactly Yamamotos plans Yamamoto had hoped to draw the US carriers into his trap but instead he sailed into an ambush The fourday battle resulted in the loss of four Japanese aircraft carriers the US Navy losing only one The Japanese were never able to recover from these losses and it was the Americans who were able to take control of the Pacific The Battle of Midway unquestionably marked the turning point in the war against Japan
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The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign The May 16 1863 fighting took place just 20 miles east of the river city where the advance of Gen Ulysses S Grants Federal army attacked Gen John C Pembertons hastily gathered Confederates The bloody fighting seesawed back and forth until superior Union leadership broke apart the Southern line sending Pembertons army into headlong retreat The victory on Mississippis wooded hills sealed the fate of both Vicksburg and her large field army propelled Grant into the national spotlight and earned him the command of the entire US armed forcesTimothy Smith who holds a PhD from Mississippi State and works as a historian for the National Park Service has written the definitive account of this long overlooked battle His vivid prose is grounded upon years of primary research and is rich in analysis strategic and tactical action and character development Champion Hill will become a classic Civil War battle study
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Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century Edward S Creasyâs Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has been read and reread for close to 150 years It is not only the authoritative account of each battle that makes Creasyâs work such a classicit is his command of narrative his interest in human struggle his profound deductions as to effects of the battles and his striving after truth Furthermore his selections seem as wise and wellconsidered today as when Fifteen Decisive Battles first appeared in 1851 Nobody since has made better ones nor given us better accounts Apart from the scholarship and literary skill of Creasyâs book there is another reason it has endured Creasy was essentially fairminded He had been a judge and when he became Englandâs great military critic and historian he maintained a thoroughly judicial attitude He was not a British partisan nor French nor Germanhe was a cosmopolitan observer of great eventsOut of 2300 years Creasy only found fifteen battles which he called decisive in the highest sense He chose them not for the number of killed and wounded nor for their status in myth and lore but because they fundamentally changed the course of world history In doing so he made his book a miniature military history of the western world a classic that will repay continued study for generations to come as it has for generations
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Examines the key campaigns and battles of the Vietnam War from Dien bien Phu to the fall of Saigon accompanied by profiles of the commanders descriptions of weaponry and eyewitness accounts of the action
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