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INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL RAYNER

NAPOLEONIC WARS

Austerlitz December 1805

Jena and Auerstädt October 1806

Salamanca July 1812

Waterloo June 1815

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

First Bull Run (Manassas) July 1861

Shiloh April 1862

Antietam September 1862

Gettysburg July 1863

ANGLO-ZULU WAR

Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift January 1879

ANGLO-BOER WAR

Spioenkop January 1900

Paardeberg February 1900

WORLD WAR I

Gallipoli February 1915 – January 1916

Assault on Fort Vaux, Verdun June 1916

The Somme (Day 1) July 1916

Vimy Ridge April 1917

WORLD WAR II

Pearl Harbor December 1941

El Alamein October – November 1942

D-Day June 1944

Arnhem September 1944

Battle of the Bulge December 1944 – January 1945

About the Authors

Index

Acknowledgements & Photographic Credits

Waterloo (oil on canvas) by George Jones, shows a typically over- dramatized version of the landscape, with Wellington in a blue cape on his chestnut, Copenhagen.