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Volume XLII.---No 46.
The Worlds Decisive Battles.

The fifteen decisive battles OF the
world, from the fifth century before
Christ to the beginning of the nine
teenth century of the present era, as
given by the historian Greasy, are as
follows:
The battle Of Marathon, in which
the Persian hosts were defeated by the
Greeks under Mlltiades, B. C. 400
The dcf,at of the Ath, mans at Sy-
racuse. B. G. Alb.
The battle of Arbela in which the
Persians under Marius was defeated
by the invading Greeks under Alex
ander the Great, B. G. 33l
The battle of the Metaurus, in
which the Carthaginian fore under
Hasdrubal were overthrown by the
Romans, b. c. 207.
Victory of the German tribes under
Arminius over the Roman legions un-
der Varus, A. D. 9. Crhe battle was
fought in what is now the province of
Lippe,- Germany, n ar the source Of
the River Ems.)
Battle o halon, where A!tila. til
terrible king OF the Huns. was repuls-~
ed by the Romans under Aetius, A. d.
451.
Battle of Tours, in whic', the Sara
cen Turks invaded Weetern Europe
were utterly overthrown by the Frank
under Charles Martel, A. D. 1872
Battle of Hastings, by which VIII
Ia no (innnnapnr han No
of England, October IA, 1906.
Victory of the French under Joan
of Arc over the English at Orleans,
April 20, 1929
Defeat Of the Spanish Armada, bv
the English naval force, July 90 and
80, 1888.
Battle Of Blsnheim, in which the
French and Bavarians were defeated
by the allied armies of Great Britain
and Holland under the Duke OF Marl-
borough, August 2, 1904.
Bsttle OF Pultowa. the Swedish
army under Charles XII, defeated by
the Russians under Peter the Great,
July 8, 1909.
Victory of the American army un-
der Gen. Gates over the British under
Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga, October
II. 1777.
Battle of Valmy, where the allied
armies OF Prussia and Austria were
defeated by the French under Marshal
Kellerman, September 20, 1892.
Battle of Waterloo. the allied forces
of the British and Prussians defeated
the French under Napoleon, the final
commander, June Is. 1915.
lThese battles are selected as dscis-
Ne, b cause of the important conse-
auences that followed them Few
Hndents OF history, "Uuid irg e. with ifttiiff
Professor Greasy, in restricting the
lit to 50 few. Many other conflicts
might be noted, fraught with great
Importance to the human race and
unquestionably "decisve" in their ma
ture; as for instance, the victory Of
Sobieski over the Turkish army at
Vienna, September II, 1858 Had
the Poles and Australians been de-
feated there, the Turkish general
might readily have fulfilled his threat
"to stable his horses in the church of
st. Peters at Rome" and all Western
Europe would no doubt have been de-
vastated by the ruthless and blood
thirsty Ottomans. OF important and
decisive battles since that of Waterloo
we may mention in our own Civil war
those Of Gettysburg, by which the in
vasion Of the north was checked, and
at Chattanooga, November % and %,
1868, by which the power of the Con-
federates in the Southwest received a
deadly blow, in the Franco Prussian
war, the capitulation of the French
army at Sedan, September l, 1870, and
in the Russo Turkish war, the surren-
der of Osman Pasha at Plevna, De-
cember 10, 1877.