The Decisive Battles of World History

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Lecture 25: 1805 Trafalgar—Nelson Thwarts Napoleon including a number of particularly large battleships, including the biggest, ...

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Lecture 26: 1813 Leipzig—The Grand Coalition 1813 Leipzig—The Grand Coalition ............................................... Le ...

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Lecture 26: 1813 Leipzig—The Grand Coalition x Russia and Prussia moved aggressively, sending a combined army against Napoleon’ ...

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x Napoleon abdicated and went into exile on the island of Elba, but in February 1815, he escaped from the island, landed in Fra ...

Lecture 27: 1824 Ayacucho—South American Independence 1824 Ayacucho—South American Independence .......................... Lectu ...

his radical inclinations. Revolution was inevitable, however, and he became involved in an early attempt to establish a Venezuel ...

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x Bolivar and his chief lieutenant, Sucre, began to plan their campaign against Peru. The time was ripe for an attack: Internal ...

Lecture 27: 1824 Ayacucho—South American Independence cannon deployed along the western edge. He arranged his infantry battalion ...

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with the faction agitating for Texan independence and assumed a leadership role among them. x The commander of the Mexican army ...

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men managed to resist Santa Anna’s attacks for nearly two weeks before the garrison was overrun and slaughtered. x Now, the onl ...

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