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| | The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | 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 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... |
 | | Five of the battles are described as a clash of civilizations between European and Asiatic powers (or between the Indo-European and Semitic races), with each one being a European victory and with the view that the Europeans are superior. |
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