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" It was a happy idea of Professor Creasy to select for military description those few battles of which, in the words of Hnllam, ' a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. "
Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox - Page 437
by Charles James Fox - 1854
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View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, Volume 1

Henry Hallam - Civilization, Medieval - 1822 - 624 pages
...Charles Martel has immortalized his name, and may justly be reckoned among those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes; with Marathon, Arbcla, the Metaurus, Chalons, and Leipsic. Yet do we not judge a little too much by...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 24

Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...Martel [at Tours] has immortalised hie name, and may justly be reckoned among those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent «cenes; Marathon, ABUELA, the Metaurus, Chalons, and Leipsic." — II MI VM " Alexander deserves the...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 23

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...class of economists. THE DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD. BY PROFESSOR CREASY. Those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all it» subsequent scenes. — HALLAM. THE BATTLE OF VALMY. Purpure! metuunt tyranni Injurioso ne pede...
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Elements of Universal History, on a New and Systematic Plan: From the ...

Henry White - History - 1844 - 594 pages
...says Hallam, "has immortalized his name, and may justly be reckoned among those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes — with Marathon, Arbela, the Metaurus, Chalons, and Leipsic." The victor endeavoured to complete...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...WORLD. BT PROFESSOR CREASY. NO. VIII.— THE BATTLE OF CHALONS, AD 451. " Those few battles, of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the...drama of the world, in all its subsequent scenes,- — Marathon, Arbela, the Metaurus, CHALONS, and Leipsic." — HALLAM. "The discomfiture of the mighty...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 14

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 pages
...Miicellany. THE SIX DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD. BV PROFESSOR CREASY. Those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. — HALLAM. No. III.— THE METAURUS. Quid debeas, oh Roma, Neronibus, Testis Melaurum flumen, et Hasdrubal...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 23

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...homelike happiness. THE SIX DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD. BY PROFESSOR CREASY. Those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. — HALLAM. No. IV.— ARMINIUS'S VICTORY OVER THE ROMAN LEGIONS UNDER VARUS. To a truly illustrious...
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Elements of universal history

Henry White - 1848 - 704 pages
...says Hallam, " has immortalized his name, and may justly be reckoned among those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes — with Marathon, Arbela, the Metaurus, Chalons, and Leipsic." The victor endeavoured to complete...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 15

American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...Martel (at Tours) has immortalized his name, and may justly be reckoned among those few battles qf which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scepes ; Marathon, ARBELA, the Metaurus, Chalons, and Leipsic." — HALLAM. " Alexander deserves the...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD. BY PROFESSOR CREASY. " Those few battles of which a contrary event woulJ have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes."— HALLAM. No. П.— DEFEAT OF THE ATHENIANS AT SYRACUSE. " The Romans knew not, and could not know,...
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