Game-Changers: How These Naval Clashes Changed World History
Ranking battles by their importance has been a bloodsport among military historians as long as there have been military historians. Creasy's classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1851) set the standard for the genre. But what makes a battle decisive? And what makes one such test of arms more important than another? This article first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest. Defining the term too loosely produces howlers like a recent US News catalogue of decisive battles of the American Civil War. By the US News count, 45 engagements qualified as dec...
Source: nationalinterest.org