CONTENTS

PREFACE

1 /// GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE AMERICAN PATRIOTS AT YORKTOWN, 1781

2 /// THE UNITED STATES MARINES AT TRIPOLI, 1803–5

3 /// NAPOLEON’S SIX DAYS’ CAMPAIGN, FRANCE, 1814

4 /// SIMÓN BOLÍVAR AND THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT, SOUTH AMERICA, 1813–25

5 /// THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, GREECE, 1821–29

6 /// THE BRITISH ARMY AT DELHI, INDIA, 1857

7 /// THE BATTLE OF BURNSIDE’S BRIDGE AT ANTIETAM, AMERICA, 1862

8 /// THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION AT THE BATTLE OF CAMERONE, MEXICO, 1863

9 /// LORD ROBERTS AND THE MARCH FROM KABUL TO KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN, 1879–80

10 /// CHRISTIAAN DE WET AND BOER RESISTANCE, SOUTH AFRICA, 1900–2

11 /// THE DEVONS AT BOIS DES BUTTES, FRANCE, 1918

12 /// THE BATTLE OF WARSAW, POLAND, 1920

13 /// THE WINTER WAR, FINLAND, 1939–40

14 /// THE BATTLE FOR THE BATAAN PENINSULA, PHILIPPINES, 1941–42

15 /// THE STRUGGLE FOR STALINGRAD, RUSSIA, 1942–43

16 /// THE DEFENCE OF KOHIMA, BURMA–INDIA BORDER, 1944

17 /// THE RETREAT FROM CHOSIN RESERVOIR, KOREA, 1950

18 /// THE DEFENCE OF THE GOLAN HEIGHTS, ISRAEL, 1973

19 /// THE BATTLE OF DEBECKA, IRAQ, 2003

20 /// THE DEFENCE OF THE PLATOON HOUSES AND THE BATTLE OF WANAT, AFGHANISTAN, 2006–8

CONCLUSION

FURTHER READING

INDEX

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