Art of War

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Sun-tzu. Art of War

Introduction

Millennia of War

Portraying War in Art

The Artists of War

The Art of Modern Warfare

Chronology

Mythological Battles

The Trojan War (c. 1194–1184 BCE)

Battle of the Amazons

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Antiquity to Christianisation of the Roman Empire

The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin of Akkad

Battle of Kadesh (1274 BCE)

Battle of Marathon (August/September, 490 BCE)

Battle of Thermopylae (11 August, 480 BCE)

Battle of Mantinea (4 July, 362 BCE)

The Campaigns of Alexander the Great (335–323 BCE)

Battle of the Granicus River (May, 334 BCE)

Battle of Issus (5 November, 333 BCE)

Battle of Arbela (Battle of Gaugamela) (October, 331 BCE)

Battle of Heraclea (July, 280 BCE)

Battle of Cannae (2 August, 216 BCE)

Battle of Zama (19 October, 202 BCE)

Siege and Fall of Carthage (c. 149–146 BCE)

Battle of Alesia (September, 52 BCE)

Battle of Teutoburg Forest (September, 9 CE)

Battle of Milvian Bridge (28 October, 312 CE)

Dark and Middle Ages

Battle of Tolbiac (496 CE)

Battle of Tours (10 October, 732 CE)

Battle of Roncevaux Pass (15 August, 778 CE)

Siege of Paris (November, 885 – October, 886 CE)

Battle of Hastings (14 October, 1066)

The Crusades (1095–1291)

Siege of Jerusalem (7 June – 15 July, 1099)

Battle of Hattin (4 July, 1187)

Sieges of Zara and Constantinople (April, 1204)

Heiji Rebellion (January – February, 1160)

Battle of Ichi-no-Tani (8 March, 1184)

Battle of Bouvines (27 July, 1214)

Battle of Taillebourg (21 July, 1242)

Battle of Lake Peipus (Battle of the Ice) (5 April, 1242)

Battle of Ain Jalut (3 September, 1260)

Battle of Bannockburn (23–24 June, 1314)

Battle of Cassel (23 August, 1328)

Battle of Crécy (26 August, 1346)

Battle of Agincourt (25 October, 1415)

Siege of Orléans (12 October, 1428–8 May, 1429)

Battle of San Romano (1 June, 1432)

Battle of Anghiari (29 June, 1440)

Siege and Fall of Constantinople (6 April – 29 May, 1453)

Battle of Castillon (17 July, 1453)

Early Modern Age to Wars for European Dominance

Battle of Nancy (5 January, 1477)

Battle of Fornovo (6 July, 1495)

Battle of Garigliano (29 December, 1503)

Siege of Kufstein (October, 1504)

Battle of Marignano (13–14 September, 1515)

Siege and Fall of Tenochtitlan (26 May – 13 August, 1521)

Battle of Pavia (14 February, 1525)

Battle of Kawanakajima (September, 1561)

St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (23–24 August, 1572)

Battle of Arques (15–18 September, 1589)

Siege of Breda (27 August, 1624–2 June, 1625)

Battle of Nördlingen (5–6 September, 1634)

Battle of Lens (20 August, 1648)

Battle of the Dunes (Battle of Dunkirk) (14 June, 1658)

Battle of Tournai (21–25 June, 1667)

Storming of Valenciennes (17 March, 1677)

Battle of Vienna (12 September, 1683)

Battle of Leuze (18/19 September, 1691)

Battle of Poltava (8 July, 1709)

Battle of Denain (24 July, 1712)

Battle of Fontenoy (11 May, 1745)

Battle of Lauffeld (2 July, 1747)

Battle of Bunker Hill (17 June, 1775)

Battles of Saratoga (19 September and 7 October, 1777)

Siege of Yorktown (28 September – 19 October, 1781)

Battle of Valmy (20 September, 1792)

Battle of Fleurus (26 June, 1794)

The Napoleonic Wars

Battle of Arcole (15–17 November, 1796)

Battle of Rivoli (14–15 January, 1797)

Alexander Suvorov’s Italian and Swiss Campaign (1799–1800)

Battle of the Pyramids (21 July, 1798)

Battle of Aboukir (25 July, 1799)

Battle of Hohenlinden (3 December, 1800)

Battle of Friedland (14 June, 1807)

The Third of May 1808

Battle of Wagram (5–6 July, 1809)

Battle of Borodino (7 September, 1812)

Battle of Leipzig (16–19 October, 1813)

Battle of Waterloo (18 June, 1815)

Conflicts of the 19th Century

Third Siege of Missolonghi (15 April, 1825–10 April, 1826)

Battle of the Alamo (23 February – 6 March, 1836)

Battle of the Smala (16 May, 1843)

Battle of Montebello (20 May, 1859)

Battle of Balaclava (25 October, 1854)

Battle of Solferino (24 June, 1859)

Battle of Gettysburg (1–3 July, 1863)

Siege of Vicksburg (18 May – 4 July, 1863)

Battle of Atlanta (22 July, 1864)

Battle of Sadowa (Battle of Königgrätz) (3 July, 1866)

Battle of Gravelotte (18 August, 1870)

Battle of Little Big Horn (25–26 June, 1876)

Battle of Omdurman (2 September, 1898)

Boxer Rebellion (Autumn, 1899–7 September, 1901)

Russo-Japanese War (8 February, 1904–5 September, 1905)

The World Wars

First World War (1914–1918)

The Second World War (1939–1945)

War and Abstraction

Knight, Death, and the Devil

Battle of Cascina (28 July, 1364)

The Charge of the Lancers

The Bombing of Guernica

Bibliography

Отрывок из книги

Édouard Detaille, Attack of French Hussars at Gravelotte, 16 August 1870, 1890.

Oil on canvas, 480 × 320 cm.

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Private collection.

In the year 334 BCE, Alexander arrived on the banks of the Granicus [now known as the Biga Çay], a narrow, deep, and rapid stream in northern Asia. On the opposite side of the river was stationed the Persian army, which Darius, had sent thither to intercept his progress. The two armies remained in sight of each other a long time, as if dreading the event. At length, Alexander, impatient at the delay, took the command of the right wing of his army, and placing the left under the command of Parmenio, plunged into the stream. The trumpets sounded, and his troops leaped into the river after him. Surrounded by the flower of his army, Alexander madly buffeted the rushing current, and made rapid progress toward the enemy.

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