1883 Decisive Battles of the World Beautiful Marathon Waterloo Illustrated MAPS



Edward Shepherd Creasy was an English historian and jurist, whose best-known work was ‘Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World.’ Creasy chose fifteen battles which changed history and describes the context, the battle and the consequences. He includes:

Marathon,

Syracuse,

Arbela,

Metaurus,

Arminius over Roman Legion

Chalons,

Tours,

Hastings,

Orleans,

Spanish Armada,

Blenheim,

Pultowa,

Saratoga,

Valmy,

Waterloo.



Item number: #9764

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CREASY, Edward



The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo.



London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[7], viii-xiii, [4], 2- 407

12 in-text maps

Provenance: Bookplate – STET. FRTVNA. DOMVS. [Harrow School]

Laurice Oppenheim

Capt. Laurie Charles Frith Oppenheim, Esq., The Manor House, Kineton (1871-1923) served in the British military with the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays).

Jac. Edv. C. Welldon, A.M., Schol. Harrov. Magister.

James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854 – 1937) was an English clergyman and scholar. He was Bishop of Calcutta from 1898 to 1902, Dean of Manchester from 1906 to 1918, and Dean of Durham from 1918 to 1933.

Harrow School

Harrow School is a public school for boys in Harrow, London, England. The School was founded in 1572 by John Lyon under a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I, and is one of the original seven public schools that were regulated by the Public Schools Act 1868.

Harrow alumni are known as Old Harrovians, they include seven former British prime ministers including Winston Churchill and Robert Peel and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Twenty Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross and one the George Cross. The School has educated five monarchs: King Hussein of Jordan, both Kings of Iraq, Ghazi I and his son Faisal II, the current Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar.

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Size: ~7.25in X 5.25in (19cm x 13cm)





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