Dictionary of Battles and Sieges

ISBN: 9780313335365

出版社: Greenwood Pub Group

出版年: 2006-12

页数: 1200

定价: $ 338.94

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Going well beyond the typical greatest or most influential battle format, the "Dictionary of Battles and Sieges" offers readers information they would be hard-pressed to find anywhere else. Entries were reviewed by area and period experts to ensure accuracy and to provide the broadest coverage possible. The Dictionary is truly global in scope, covering East Asia, South Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Africa, Mesoamerica, and North and South America. Battles from wars great and small are included in the Dictionary, including battles from this very brief sampling of wars covered: Egyptian-Syrian Wars (1468 B.C.); Assyrian Wars (724-648 B.C.); Greco-Persian Wars (498-450 B.C.); Conquests of Alexander the Great (335-326 B.C.); Rome's Gallic Wars (121-52 B.C.); Han Imperial Wars (208); Hun-Ostrogoth Wars (454-68); Mecca-Medina War (624-30); Berber Rebellion (740-61); Viking Raids on, and in, Britain (793-954); Byzantine Military Rebellions (978-89); and Afghan Wars of Succession (998-1041). It also includes: Russian Dynastic Wars (1016-94); Crusader-Muslim Wars (1100-1179); Conquests of Genghis Khan (1202-27); William Wallace Revolt (1297-1304); Hundred Years War (1337-1453); Ottoman Civil Wars (1413-81); Mongol-Uzbek Wars (1497-1512); Cambodian-Spanish War (1599); King Philip's War (1675-77); Franco-Barbary Wars (1728); Bengal War (1763-65); French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1801); Chilean War of Independence (1813-26); Boer-Zulu War (1838); Mexican-French War (1862-67); Sino-Japanese War (1894-95); Anhwei-Chihli War (1920); Mau Mau Revolt (1955); 2nd Indo-Pakistani War (1965); Angolan War (1987-88); and 2nd Gulf War (2003).