 | Cornelius Irvine Walker - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 288 pages
...authoritative historian, Hallam, as defining a decisive battle "as one of those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in its subsequent scenes." Under this definition let us analyze this battle. It is generally conceded... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 856 pages
...through many editions. 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, 490 BC; Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, 413 BC... | |
 | Bradley Allen Fiske - Admirals - 1919 - 746 pages
...Hallam as saying of the battle of Tours: "It may justly be reckoned among those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all subsequent scenes." Each one of the battles described brought about a decision that was momentous to... | |
 | Frederick Ernest Whitton - Battles - 1923 - 286 pages
...victory of Charles Martel maintained that " it could 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." The selection of the battles which can pass such test is obviously a matter of no little difficulty, and,... | |
 | North Carolina - 1924 - 588 pages
...of the word "decisive." Hallam's interpretation is that when applied to a battle it is one in which "a contrary event would have essentially varied the...drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes." The author seems to approve of this but is not able to follow it. In the first instance he takes occasion... | |
 | History - 1924 - 720 pages
...(Constable, 12s.) that he has adopted Hallam's test of the decisiveness of battles as those " of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes." He selects the title as correctly describing, from this point of view, Vicksburg, 1863; Koniggratz,... | |
 | History - 1924 - 722 pages
...(Constable, 12s.) that he has adopted Hallam's test of the decisiveness of battles as those " of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes." He selects the title as correctly describing, from this point of view, Vicksburg, 1863; Koniggratz,... | |
 | Israel Abrahams - Israel - 1927 - 80 pages
...definition of ' decisive ' as applied to wars. Decisive battles are those of which it may be said that ' a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent stages '. Applying this test, and even if we limit our attention to the second half only of the recorded... | |
 | Artillery - 1927 - 646 pages
...of East on West." Basing his test on Hallem's definition of a decisive event as one whose contrary "would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent stages," Dr. Abrahams believes the campaigns in Palestine from Alexander to Allenby to have been among... | |
 | American-Irish Historical Society - Ethnology - 1911 - 530 pages
...a great English historian, in his "Middle Ages" defines decisive battles as "those battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes." Mr. ES Creasy, late professor of history in the University College of London, acting on this suggestion,... | |
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The victory of Charles," 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,... 
