The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to WaterlooHarper & Brothers, 1851 - Всего страниц: 364 |
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... Europe- an free states over Oriental despotism . So gospotamos , which finally crushed the maritime power of Athens , seems to me inferior in interest to the defeat before Syracuse , where Athens received her first fatal check , and ...
... Europe- an free states over Oriental despotism . So gospotamos , which finally crushed the maritime power of Athens , seems to me inferior in interest to the defeat before Syracuse , where Athens received her first fatal check , and ...
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... European Turkey , the modern kingdom of Persia , and the coun- tries of modern Georgia , Armenia , Balkh , the Punjaub , Afghan- istan , Beloochistan , Egypt , and Tripoli . Nor could a European , in the beginning of the fifth century ...
... European Turkey , the modern kingdom of Persia , and the coun- tries of modern Georgia , Armenia , Balkh , the Punjaub , Afghan- istan , Beloochistan , Egypt , and Tripoli . Nor could a European , in the beginning of the fifth century ...
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... Europe under their yoke , as they had already subjugated the fairest portions of the rest of the then known world . The Greeks , from their geographical position , formed the nat ural van - guard of European liberty against Persian ...
... Europe under their yoke , as they had already subjugated the fairest portions of the rest of the then known world . The Greeks , from their geographical position , formed the nat ural van - guard of European liberty against Persian ...
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From Marathon to Waterloo Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy. ural van - guard of European liberty against Persian ambition ; and they pre - eminently displayed the salient points of distinctive national character which have rendered European ...
From Marathon to Waterloo Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy. ural van - guard of European liberty against Persian ambition ; and they pre - eminently displayed the salient points of distinctive national character which have rendered European ...
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... he directed his arms against Europe , to make the predominant monarchy of the world . * See the tenth volume of the " Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society . " With the exception of the Chinese empire , in which 26 BATTLE OF MARATHON .
... he directed his arms against Europe , to make the predominant monarchy of the world . * See the tenth volume of the " Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society . " With the exception of the Chinese empire , in which 26 BATTLE OF MARATHON .
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