Edward Shepherd Creasy's 1851 account of fifteen battles that he argued were decisive turning points of world history — from Marathon through Waterloo — one of the most influential popular military histories ever written.
Created the 'decisive battles' framework for understanding military history — Creasy's argument that certain battles (Marathon, Arbela, Metaurus, Hastings, Blenheim, Saratoga, Waterloo) determined the entire subsequent course of civilization made military history feel consequential and created the genre of counterfactual military history.
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