The Decisive Battles of World History
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Table of Contents
- Course Scope ..................................................................................... Professor Biography ............................................................................i
- LECTURE
- What Makes a Battle Decisive? ..........................................................
- LECTURE
- 1274 B.C. Kadesh—Greatest Chariot Battle ....................................
- LECTURE
- 479 B.C. Plataea—Greece Wins Freedom.......................................
- LECTURE
- 331 B.C. Gaugamela—Alexander’s Genius .....................................
- LECTURE
- 197 B.C. Cynoscephalae—Legion vs. Phalanx ................................
- LECTURE
- 31 B.C. Actium—Birth of the Roman Empire ....................................
- LECTURE
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- LECTURE
- 636 Yarmouk & al-Qadisiyyah—Islam Triumphs ..............................
- LECTURE
- 751 Talas & 1192 Tarain—Islam into Asia.........................................
- LECTURE
- 1066 Hastings—William Conquers England.....................................
- LECTURE Table of Contents
- 1187 Hattin—Crusader Desert Disaster ...........................................
- LECTURE
- 1260 Ain Jalut—Can the Mongols Be Stopped? ..............................
- LECTURE
- 1410 Tannenberg—Cataclysm of Knights ........................................
- LECTURE
- Frigidus, Badr, Diu—Obscure Turning Points ...................................
- LECTURE
- 1521 Tenochtitlán—Aztecs vs. Conquistadors ...............................
- LECTURE
- 1532 Cajamarca—Inca vs. Conquistadors .....................................
- LECTURE
- 1526 & 1556 Panipat—Babur & Akbar in India
- LECTURE
- 1571 Lepanto—Last Gasp of the Galleys.......................................
- LECTURE
- 1592 Sacheon—Yi’s Mighty Turtle Ships........................................
- LECTURE
- 1600 Sekigahara—Samurai Showdown .........................................
- LECTURE
- 1683 Vienna—The Great Ottoman Siege .......................................
- LECTURE
- 1709 Poltava—Sweden’s Fall, Russia’s Rise .................................
- LECTURE
- 1759 Quebec—Battle for North America ........................................
- LECTURE v
- 1776 Trenton—The Revolution’s Darkest Hour ..............................
- LECTURE
- 1805 Trafalgar—Nelson Thwarts Napoleon ...................................
- LECTURE
- 1813 Leipzig—The Grand Coalition ...............................................
- LECTURE
- 1824 Ayacucho—South American Independence ..........................
- LECTURE
- 1836 San Jacinto—Mexico’s Big Loss ...........................................
- LECTURE
- 1862 Antietam—The Civil War’s Bloodiest Day ..............................
- LECTURE
- 1866 Königgrätz—Bismarck Molds Germany.................................
- LECTURE
- 1905 Tsushima—Japan Humiliates Russia ....................................
- LECTURE
- 1914 Marne—Paris Is Saved..........................................................
- LECTURE
- 1939 Khalkhin Gol—Sowing the Seeds of WWII ............................
- LECTURE
- 1942 Midway—Four Minutes Change Everything ..........................
- LECTURE
- 1942 Stalingrad—Hitler’s Ambitions Crushed ................................
- LECTURE
- Recent & Not-So-Decisive Decisive Battles ...................................
