Battles that changed history
Subtitle: an encyclopedia of world conflict
By: Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9781598844306; 9781598844290
Subjects: HISTORY; Military history; Battles; Strategy; Encyclopedias; Military; Military Science; History
Description: Presents over two hundred battles that changed the course of history, including the date, place, participants, and the historical significance of each conflict.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Battle of Megiddo (May 1479 BCE); title: Battle of Kadesh (1298 BCE); title: Siege of Troy (1194-1184 BCE); title: Battle of Thymbra (546 BCE); title: Siege of Babylon (539-538 BCE); title: Battle of Marathon (490 BCE); title: Battle of Thermopylae (ca. August 19, 480 BCE); title: Battle of Salamis (ca. Septmeber 20, 480 BCE); title: Battles of Plataea and Mycale (September 479 BCE); title: Siege of Plataea (428-427 BCE); title: Siege of Syracuse (415-413 BCE); title: Siege of Veii (404-396 BCE); title: Battle of Leuctra (July 371 BCE); title: Battle of Chaeronea (August 4, 338 BCE); title: Battle of the Granicus (May 334 BCE); title: Battle of Issus (November 333 BCE); title: Sieges of Tyre and Gaza (332 BCE); title: Battle of Gaugamela (October 1, 331 BCE); title: Battle of Ipsus (Spring 301 BCE); title: Battle of Cannae (August 2, 216 BCE); title: Siege of Syracuse (213-212 BCE); title: Battle of the Metaurus River (207 BCE); title: Battle of Zama (202 BCE); title: Battle of Gaixia (December 202 BCE); title: Battle of Pydna (June 22, 168 BCE); title: Siege of Carthage (149-146 BCE); title: Siege of Alesia (July-October 52 BCE); title: Battle of Pharsalus (August 9, 48 BCE); title: Battle of Actium (September 2, 31 BCE); title: Battle of the Teutoburg forest (9 CE); title: Battle of Beth-Horon (October 66); title: Battle of the Milvian Bridge (October 28, 312); title: Battle of Adrianople (August 9, 378); title: Battle of Chalons (Summer [July?] 451); title: Battle of Tricameron (533); title: Battle of Badr (March 15, 624); title: Battle of Yarmouk River (August 636); title: Siege of Constantinople (August 15, 717-August 15, 718); title: Battle of Tours (October 25, 732); title: Siege of Pavia (773-774); title: Battle of Lechfeld (August 10, 955)