text: Chapters Each chapter of the book describes a different battle.  The fifteen chapters are:
  The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC
  Excerpt: "Two thousand three hundred and forty years ago, a council of Athenian Officers was summoned on the slope of one of the mountains that look over the plain of Marathon, on the eastern coast of Attica. The immediate subject of their meeting was to consider whether they should give battle to an enemy that lay encamped on the shore beneath them; but on the result of their deliberations depended, not merely the fate of two armies, but the whole future progress of human civilization."
  Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, 413 BC
  Known as the Battle of Syracuse.
  Excerpt: "Few cities have undergone more memorable sieges during ancient and medieval times than has the city of Syracuse."
  The Battle of Gaugamela, 331 BC
  Also called the Battle of Arbela.
  Excerpt: "the ancient Persian empire, which once subjugated all the nations of the earth, was defeated when Alexander had won his victory at Arbela."
  The Battle of the Metaurus, 207 BC
  Excerpt: "That battle was the determining crisis of the contest, not merely between Rome and Carthage, but between the two great families of the world..."