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THE


FIFTEEN DECISIVE


BATTLES OF THE WORLD;


FROM MARATHON TO WATERLOO.



By E. S. CREASY, M.A.,

PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON;
LATE FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.


Those few battles, of which a contrary event would have essentially varied
the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes.—Hallam.


IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.


LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty
1851.