• Battle of Marathon
  Athenian battle Greek. Description of the Battle of Marathon with King Darius and Miltiades. Harking back, from this year of 2005, to a time, approximately two thousand, four hundred and ninety five years ago, in 490 B.C., a council of Athenian Officers was summoned on the slope of one of the mountains that look over the plain of Marathon...
  
• Syracuse
  Battle of Syracuse. Few cities have undergone more memorable sieges during ancient and medieval times than has the city of Syracuse. Athenian, Carthaginian, Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Saracen, and Norman, have in turns beleaguered her walls; and the resistance which she successfully opposed ...
  
  
• Arbela
  Alexander the Great, Victor of the battle of Arbela and many others, deserves the glory which he has enjoyed for so many centuries and among all nations: but what it he had been beaten at Arbela having the Euphrates, the Tigris, and the deserts in Alexander's rear, without any strong places of refuge, nine hundred leagues from Macedonia." Napoleon.
  
  
• Metaurus.
  Battle of the Metaurus. ...The tactic of the Roman legions had not yet acquired that perfection which it received from the military genius of Marius, and which we read of in the first chapter of Gibbon. We possess in that great work, an account of the Roman legions at the end of the commonwealth, and during the early ages of the empire, which those alone can adequately admire who have attempted a similar description...

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