audiobook Twenty Years Before the Mast by Charles Erskine in History

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Each chapter of Creasy’s strategy book dissects a different battle. The fifteen chapters are: I - THE BATTLE OF MARATHON II - DEFEAT OF THE ATHENIANS AT SYRACUSE; B.C. 413 III - THE BATTLE OF ARBELA; B.C. 331 IV - THE BATTLE OF THE METAURUS; B.C. 207 V - VICTORY OF ARMINIUS OVER THE ROMAN LEGIONS UNDER VARUS; A.D. 9 VI - THE BATTLE OF CHALONS; A.D. 451 VII - THE BATTLE OF TOURS; A.D. 732 VIII - THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS; 1066 IX - JOAN OF ARC'S VICTORY OVER THE ENGLISH AT ORLEANS; A.D. 1429 X - THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA; A.D. 1588 XI - THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM; 1704 XII - THE BATTLE OF PULTOWA; 1709 XIII - VICTORY OF THE AMERICANS OVER BURGOYNE AT SARATOGA; A.D. 1777 XIV - THE BATTLE OF VALMY XV – THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO; 1815