Wars That Changed History: 50 of the World's Greatest Conflicts: 50 of the World's Greatest Conflicts

626 Pages·2015·12.96 MB·English

by  Spencer C. Tucker

Wars That
Changed History
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Wars That
Changed History
50 of the World’s Greatest Conflicts
Spencer C. Tucker
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Tucker, Spencer, 1937–
Wars that changed history : 50 of the world’s greatest conflicts / Spencer C. Tucker.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61069-785-9 (alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61069-786-6 (ebook) 1. Military
history. 2. War—History. I. Title.
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Contents
Chronological Entry List, ix
Alphabetical Entry List, xi
Preface, xiii
Entries, 1
Index, 581
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Chronological Entry List
Thutmose III’s Campaigns (ca. 1479– Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) 161
1459 BCE) 1
Great Northern War (1700–1721) 182
Greco-Persian Wars
War of the Spanish Succession
(499–479 BCE) 4
(1701–1714) 194
Peloponnesian Wars
War of the Austrian Succession
(460–404 BCE) 14
(1740–1748) 208
Wars of Alexander the Great
Carnatic Wars (1746–1748, 1749–1754,
(335–323 BCE) 24
and 1757–1763) 217
Punic Wars (264–146 BCE) 34
French and Indian War
Qin Wars of Unification (1754–1763) 223
(230–221 BCE) 51
Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) 232
Gallic Wars (58–51 BCE) 56
American Revolutionary War
Caesarian-Pompeian Civil War (1775–1783) 245
(49–45 BCE) 63
French Revolutionary Wars
Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire (1792–1802) 259
(363–476) 71
Napoleonic Wars (1803–1814,
Muslim Wars of Expansion 1815) 279
(623–732) 79
Greek War of Independence
Charlemagne’s Wars (772–814) 91 (1821–1832) 311
Norman Conquest (1066) 96 Opium Wars (1839–1842,
1856–1860) 317
Crusades (1096–1291) 100
Mexican-American War
Mongol Conquests (1206–1287) 113
(1846–1848) 322
Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) 125
Wars of Italian Unification
Aztec-Spanish War (1519–1521) 143
(1848–1870) 330
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) 149
Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864) 344
Imjin War (1592–1598) 155
American Civil War (1861–1865) 348
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