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Wars and battles. Civil war. Crash of cannon and sword upon sword. The courage of Joan of Arc. Elizabeth I and The Spanish Armada; Nelson, Napoleon, Trafalgar and Waterloo. Join the Crusades.
- Battles, B.C. 490 to 270
Battles during 490 to 207 B.C. Battle of Marathon 490 B.C. Battle of Syracuse 413 B.C. Battle of Arbela 331 B.C. Battle of Metaurus 207 B.C. Other wars and battles will be added from time to time.
- 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...
- Battles, A.D. 9 to 732
Battles during 9 A.D to 732 A.D. Battle of Arminius 9 A.D. Battle of Chalons 451 A.D. Battle of Tours 732 A.D. Other wars and battles will be added from time to time.
- Arminius vs. Rome.
Battle of Arminius. "One body of brave veterans, arraying themselves in a ring on a little mound, beat off every charge of the Germans, and prolonged their honorable resistance to the close of that dreadful day. The traces of a feeble attempt at forming a ditch and mound attested in after years the spot where the last of the Romans passed their night of suffering and despair. But on the morrow this remnant also, worn out with hunger, wounds, and toil, was charged by the victorious Germans and either, massacred on the spot, or offered up in fearful rites at the altars of the deities of the old mythology of the North."
- Tours.
Battle of Tours. "The events that rescued our ancestors of Britain and our neighbors of Gaul from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran." GIBBON. Schlegelf speaks of this "mighty victory" in terms of fervent gratitude, and tells how "the arm of Charles Martel saved and delivered the Christian nations of the West from the deadly grasp of all-destroying Islam;"
- Chalons.
Battle of Chalons. It is obvious enough why Attila styled himself "By the Grace of God, King of the Huns and Goths;" and it seems far from difficult to see why he added the names of the Medes and the Danes. His armies had been engaged in warfare against the Persian kingdom of the Sassanidae, and it is certain that he meditated the invasion and overthrow of the Medo-Persian power...
- Battles, A.D. 1066 to 1588
Battles during 1066 A.D to 1588 A.D. Battle of Hastings 1066 A.D. Battle of Orleans 1429 A.D. Spanish Armada 1588 A.D. Other wars and battles will be added from time to time.
- Hastings.
Battle of Hastings. Arletta's pretty feet twinkling in the brook made her the mother of William the Conqueror. Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty would have arisen, no British empire...
- Orleans
Joan of Arc. Battle of Orleans. "When it was day, the Maid rode in solemn procession through the city, clad in complete armor, and mounted on a white horse. Dunois was by her side, and all the bravest knights of her army and of the garrison followed in her train...
- Spanish Armada
The English defeat of the Spanish Armada. On the afternoon of the 19th of July, A.D.1588, a group of English captains was collected at the Bowling Green on the Hoe at Plymouth, whose equals have never before, or since, been brought together, even at that favorite mustering place of the heroes of the British navy...
- Battles, A.D 1704 to 1815
Battles during 1704 A.D to 1815 A.D. Battle of Blenheim 1704 A.D. Battle of Pultowa 1709 A.D. Battle of Saratoga 1777 A.D. Battle of Valmy 1792 A.D. Battle of Waterloo 1815 A.D. Other wars and battles will be added from time to time.
- Blenheim.
Battle of Blenheim. "Such," says Voltaire," was the celebrated battle which the French called the battle of Hochstet, the Germans Plentheim, and the English Blenheim. The conquerors had about five thousand killed and eight thousand wounded, the greater part being on the side of Prince Eugene.
- Pultowa.
Battle of Pultowa. Notwithstanding the fearful disparity of numbers and disadvantage of position, the Swedes never showed their ancient valor more nobly than on that dreadful day. Nor do their Cossack and Wallachian allies seem to have been unworthy of fighting side by side with Charles' veterans.
- Saratoga.
Battle of Saratoga. ...The British sick and wounded who had fallen into the hands of the Americans after the battle of the seventh were treated with exemplary humanity; and when the Convention was executed, General Gates showed a noble delicacy of feeling, which deserves the highest degree of honor...
- Valmy
Battle of Valmy. A few miles distant from the little town of St. Menehould, in the northeast of France, is the village and hill of Valmy and near the crest of that hill a simple monument points out the burial-place of the heart of a general of the French republic and a marshal of the French empire...
- Waterloo.
Battle of Waterloo. ...The battle was lost by France; past all recovery. The victorious armies of England and Prussia, meeting on the scene of their triumph, continued to press forward and overwhelm every attempt that was made to stem the tide of ruin...
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