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050 4 _aD
100 1 _aBevan, Wilson Lloyd,
_d1866-1935
245 1 4 _aThe world's leading conquerors
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2024
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2024-10-28
505 0 _aAlexander the Great -- Cæsar -- Charles the Great -- The Ottomans -- Spanish conquerors -- Napoleon.
508 _aBrian Wilson, Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"The World's Leading Conquerors" by W. L. Bevan is a historical account published in the early 20th century. This work explores the lives and conquests of some of the most significant military figures in Western history, including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon, among others. It aims to provide a concise narrative on these conquerors, their strategies, and the historical impact of their actions. The opening of the book introduces Alexander the Great and sets the stage for his rise to power following the assassination of his father, Philip of Macedon. It discusses the political fragmentation of the Greek city-states and how this environment allowed Macedon, under Philip and later Alexander, to dominate Greece. The initial chapters highlight Philip’s military innovations and the subsequent turmoil leading to Alexander's swift consolidation of Macedonian rule, framing the context for Alexander's future conquests and illustrating his complex relationship with power and violence at a formative age. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: H. Holt and company, 1913
653 _aHistory
653 _aKings and rulers
700 1 _aTrent, William P.
_q(William Peterfield),
_d1862-1939
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/worldsleadingcon00beva
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74652
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