User talk:A Nobody/List of decisive battles

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Sources:

R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History From 3500 B.C. to the Present. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. Re-check entries for Teutoburger Wald, Chalons , Tours , Crecy , Sempach , Lepanto , Yorktown , Waterloo , Gettysburg , Sedan, First Battle of the Marne , Midway , Stalingrad , and El Alamein. References as decisive may have been in Compton's Encyclopedia or the Giant List Book (if I even still have that).

The Decisive Battles of the World
 * 1. The Battle of Marathon
 * 2. Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, B.C. 413
 * 3. The Battle of Arbela, B.C. 331
 * 4. The Battle of the Metaurus, B.C. 207
 * 5. Victory of Arminius over the Roman Legions under Varus, A.D. 9
 * 6. The Battle of Chalons, A.D. 451
 * 7. The Battle of Tours, A.D. 732
 * 8. The Battle of Hastings, A.D. 1066
 * 9. Joan of Arc’s Victory over the English at Orléans, A.D. 1429
 * 10. The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, A.D. 1588
 * 11. The Battle of Blenheim, A.D. 1704
 * 12. The Battle of Pultowa, A.D. 1709
 * 13. Victory of the Americans over Burgoyne at Saratoga, A.D. 1777
 * 14. The Battle of Valmy
 * 15. The Battle of Waterloo, 1815
 * 16. the final battle of the Texas Revolution
 * 17.
 * 18. the battle of Warsaw, fought in 1920 by the Polish and Bolshevik forces during the Polish-Bolshevik War.
 * 19.
 * 20.

1964, American historian Lt. Col. Joseph B. Mitchell published Twenty Decisive Battles of the World
 * The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863.
 * Battle of Sadowa, 1866.
 * First Battle of the Marne, 1914.
 * Battle of Midway, 1942.
 * Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-43.

See also. Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 04:28, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Other article ideas
List of turning points. List of great captains. Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 18:49, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

List of turning points

 * According to Nathan Rosenstein and Ryan Patrick Crisp, the "rule of Augustus represents a critical turning point in the history of Rome, the moment of transition from Republic to Empire."

List of great captains

 * According to R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy, Cyrus the Great "was the first great captain of recorded history."

Definition of 'decisive battles'
Apologies if I shouldn't intrude on your sandbox, but military history is an area of interest of mine, and I was hoping to help. If you define decisive as merely a powerful and one-sided victory, then the list is endless, there are at least a dozen such battles in the Eastern Front of WW2 alone. If you define it as a turning point battle, then can it not be merged with the other proposed article, list of turning points (unless this refers to a different type of turning point)