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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. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty

1851.