 | 1870 - 586 pages
...enough to forbid any one of them being, at present, recognised as one of " those few battles of which a contrary event •would have essentially varied the...drama of the world, in all its subsequent scenes." Let us, for a minute, consider the recent battle, which has been the very greatest of them in its immediate... | |
 | Bunker Hill Monument Association - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1907 - 250 pages
...paramount importance to mankind which . " entitles it to be reckoned among those few battles of " which a contrary event would have essentially varied " the drama of the world in all its subsequent history." 190 TUE OBJECTIVE AT BUNKER HILL. In conclusion, it may be said of the battle of Bunker Hill... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1911 - 594 pages
...Republic floats; a general who fought a battle and won a victory, of which history will declare that a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. Of him it may be said, as Voltaire said of Marlborough, that "he had in high degree that calm courage... | |
 | Generals - 1911 - 60 pages
...Republic floats; a general who fought a battle and won a victory, of which history will declare that a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. Of him it may be said, as Voltaire said of Marlborough, that "he had in high degree that calm courage... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1911 - 590 pages
...Republic floats; a general who fought a battle and won a victory, of which history will declare that a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. Of him it may be said, as Voltaire said of Marlborough, that " he had in high degree that calm courage... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1911 - 818 pages
...World," has numbered it with Marathon, Blenheim, and Waterloo as one of those few battles of which the contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. I would not shade a single ray that glows in the sunburst of that glorious day. Glorious in itself,... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 864 pages
...Creasy, published 1852. It describes and discusses (in the words of Hallam) "those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes." The volume treats, in order : The Battle of Marathon, 413 BC ; Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, 413... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1852 - 660 pages
...Hallam's upon the battle of Tours — " It may just I v 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." To determine what battles should fall into this decisive class is no easy task ; indeed, hardly any... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1915 - 608 pages
...was led to the consideration of the subject by Hallam's definition : "Those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes." This definition would have to be much tabloided to make it fit as a correct designation of the battles... | |
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Creasy to select for military description those few battles of which, in the words of Hallam, * a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. 
