Decisive battles since Waterloo
Subtitle: the most important military events from 1815 to 1887
By: by Thomas W. Knox
Edition: 3rd ed., rev.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York; New Rochelle, N.Y. : Knickerbocker Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
Copyright date: 1887
Subjects: Naval battles; Military history; Battles; Monitor (Ironclad); Naval art and science; Naval history; Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862; Military art and science; History
Notes: Includes a chapter on the Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads.

Includes index.

With fore-edge painting depicting Abraham Lincoln, his birth-place and the White House.

In full purple calf leather boards, with gilt edges, gold embossed decoration and lettering on spine, seal on front cover.
Table of contents: title: Battle of Ayacucho, 1824; title: Battle of Prome, 1825; title: Battle of Navarino, 1827; title: Siege of Silistria, 1829; title: Battle of Staoueli and fall of Algiers, 1830; title: Capture of Antwerp and liberation of Belgium, 1832; title: Capture of the city of Mexico, 1847; title: Battle of Gujerat, 1849; title: Capture of the Malakoff and the Redan, and fall of Sebastopol, 1855; title: Lucknow and Cawnpore, 1857-8; title: Capture of the Peiho forts and Pekin, 1858-60; title: Battle of Solferino, 1859; title: Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, 1862; title: Battle of Gettysburg, 1863; title: Siege and fall of Vicksburg, 1863; title: Battle of Five Forks and Lee's surrender, 1865; title: Battle of Koeniggratz (Sadowa), 1866; title: Battle of Gravelotte, 1870; title: Battle and fall of Sedan, 1870; title: Fall of Khiva, 1873; title: Fall of Plevna, 1877; title: Capture of Geok Tepe, 1881; title: Battle of Miraflores, 1881; title: El Obeid: Annihilation of Hicks Pasha's army, 1883; title: Fall of Khartoum, 1885.