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How Battles Were Fought
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New Doctrines of War: From the Legion to the Insurgency

Six named doctrines this wave added to the atlas, walked in roughly chronological order: the Roman legion's own tactical evolution, the general pincer movement across every era, the general craft of the siege...

6 stops

Six Doctrines Across 2,300 Years of War

From the Macedonian hammer-and-anvil to Cold War deterrence, six named ideas about how to fight, in the order they first appeared.

6 stops

The Armies That Fought America's Wars

From the Continental Army's ragged volunteers at Yorktown to the Union Army's might at Gettysburg, this trail follows the commanders, forces and weapons of the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.

10 stops

Five Commanders, Five Eras of War

One signature battle from each of this wave's five founding commanders, in chronological order, from Alexander's Macedon to Napoleon's France.

5 stops

From Global War to Total War

Six wars in chronological order, from medieval England and France through Vietnam, tracing how wars grew from regional dynastic conflicts into globe-spanning and eventually total wars.

6 stops

Two Thousand Years of Siege and Envelopment

Two operational lessons, two thousand years apart: Caesar's double-walled siege at Alesia in 52 BC and the Red Army's deep encirclements at Stalingrad and Berlin both trapped a dangerous enemy between two lines the...

3 stops

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