Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitinig,and other newspapers. The official records of the Amer-ican Civil War have been examined, together with numer-ous volumes of an unofficial character. In describing thebattle of Gettysburg the author has thought best to relymainly upon The History of the Civil War in America,by the Comte de Paris. In so doing he has hoped to avoidthe charge of partiality, which has been brought againstnearly every other of the numerous writers on the battles here described possess
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitinig,and other newspapers. The official records of the Amer-ican Civil War have been examined, together with numer-ous volumes of an unofficial character. In describing thebattle of Gettysburg the author has thought best to relymainly upon The History of the Civil War in America,by the Comte de Paris. In so doing he has hoped to avoidthe charge of partiality, which has been brought againstnearly every other of the numerous writers on the battles here described possess an interest for thestudent of military tactics and strategy. The book has,however, for its further purpose, the idea of presentingan outline survey of the history of the Nineteenth Cen-tury, considered from the point of view of its chiefmilitary events. It is the authors hope that the result ofhis labors may help to make clear the character and rela-tive importance of these events, and to indicate theirinfluence in shaping the history of our own times. T. W. K. New York, April, CONTENTS. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XIV. XV. XVI. Battle of Ayacucho—1824 Battle of Prome—1825 Battle of Navarino—1827 Siege of Silistria—1829 Battle of Staoueli and Fall of Algiers—1830 . . Capture of Antwerp and Liberation ofBelgium—1832 ..... Capture of the City of Mexico—1847 Battle of Gujerat—1849 . Capture of the Malakoff and the Redanand Fall of Sebastopol—1855 lucknow and cawnpore—1857-8 Capture of the Peiho Forts and Pekif—1858-60 . Battle of Solferino—1859 Battle between the Monitor and theMerrimac—1862 . Battle of Gettysburg—1863 Siege and Fall of Vicksburg—1863 . Battle of Five Forks and Lees Surren-der—1865 Battle of Koeniggratz (Sadowa)—1866 Battle of Gravelotte—1870 PAGE I 1729 47 64 77 117 *33154 177197 210230260 289308325 vin CONTENTS. CHAPTER. PAGE XIX. Battle and Fall of Sedan—1870 . 344 XX. Fall of Khi
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