 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 928 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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1870 - 614 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... | |
 | Education - 1885 - 288 pages
...by Prof. Creasy. It is claimed by Hallaiu that had the result of these battles been contrary, they would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes. 1. Tue Battle of Marathon, fought 490 В. С., in which the Greeks, under Them istocles, defeated the... | |
 | Hygiene - 1904 - 418 pages
...certain victory over the invading Saracens : " It may be justly reckoned among the few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world." Dark would be the world's drama of the twentieth century if these men had juggled with the findings... | |
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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,... 
