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 THE

FIFTEEN DECISIVE

FROM MARATHON TO WATERLOO.

E. S. CREASY, M.A.,

PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON;

LATE FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

Those few battles, of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty

1851.