 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Battle of Newburn memorial planned.(News)
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Byline: By Tony Henderson Environment Editor
A memorial is being planned to a battle which led to a Scots army occupying Newcastle.
The Battle of Newburn Ford on August 27, 1640, involved a Scottish army of up to 20,000 men.
Newcastle City Council's Tyne Riverside Country Park at Newburn now occupies ...
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How the West was won This retelling of the epic battles between the Greeks and the Persians sets Peter Jones's pulse racing
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...origins of the Persian Wars (490-479 BC...between Greeks and Persians at Marathon...explains how the Greeks and Persians came to fight...meant so much to Greeks of the fifth...the triumph of Greek freedom over Persian absolutism...
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'The Persians' as Antiwar Allegory: Has Blood-Soaked Greek Tragedy Gotten an Extreme Makeover?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Aeschylus's "The Persians," the oldest extant Greek tragedy, is...some trusted Persian elders, and...has launched a war against the vastly outnumbered Greeks. Then a herald...desolation in the Persian homeland...loathing. "The Persians," which opens...the victorious ...
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TIME LINE.(Persian Wars )
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Key Events of the Persian Wars B.C. 499 The...leads the revolt of Greek cities in Asia Minor...overlords, the Persians. The Greeks burn Sardis, a...provincial capital of the Persian Empire. 490 The...of Athens, the Greeks again defeat the...same year, the Greek navy ...
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Books: Marathon of misconception WHY THE WEST HAS WON Victor Davis Hanson Faber & Faber, pounds 20, 492pp: Has the `West' always defeated the `East' in battle, ever since the Greeks fought the Persians? Absolutely not, says Frank McLynn. It's smug nonsense for us to rest on such non-existent laurels
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...as Clausewitz said, war is the continuation of...of Salamis to the Gulf War." Gordon Gecko, it...us to believe that the Persians still had 250,000 men...adamant that the entire Persian host cannot have numbered...000. On the Vietnam War, the right-wing zealot...same value for Ancient ...
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EMPIRES WON AND LOST.(Persian Wars)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...battlefields of the Persian Wars, the Greeks emerged victorious over the mighty Persian Empire. The great naval...Salamis, followed by the Greek army's victory at...made this clear: The Greeks were superior, on land...Athens' role in the war had made it the chief Greek ...
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Secrets of a deadly fleetThe hunt for ships used by Greece in Persian Wars is on
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...04-21-2004 The Persian Wars may be famed in history...on how the ancient Greeks defeated the Asian...more than two dozen Greek, Canadian and American...or so triremes, Greek and Persian, as...The victorious Greeks, who named them...collaboration between the Greek ...
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The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; The Greek Wars: The Failure of...perspective on the Greek source material...interaction with the Greeks from Cyrus through...specialist in Greek history and historiography...beliefs about Greek-Persian relations. Cawkwell...thereon. But non-Greek primary sources...matter, ...
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 "The American (Washington, DC)")
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The twenty-five hundred years' war: Persians have been at odds with the West and neighboring Asians since the battle of Thermopylae. Today's nuclear showdown is history repeating itself. Classicist Victor Davis Hanson tells what we can learn.
Magazine article from: The American (Washington, DC)
; If a no-nonsense Greek infantryman holding...hardly be surprised. Persians, or Iranians as they...incorporated most of the Greeks of Ionia under the Persian Empire, and would...who ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched...Parthians--another Persian dynasty--continued...subsequent ...
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Stage is battleground for passions of war Greek classic takes us back 2,500 years to Persia
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...company to mount "The Persians" is its subject matter...aftermath of a devastating war. Women are uniquely...and fathers. "The Persians," written by the Greek...unnecessary war started by the Persian king became a devastating...conflict he wrote "The Persians," which ...
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THE PERSIANS . . . A COMEDY ABOUT WAR WITH FIVE SONGS
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; THE PERSIANS . . . A COMEDY ABOUT WAR WITH FIVE SONGS By Hanna Cheek...SIGHTLINES Aeschylus's The Persians is the only surviving Greek tragedy based on a contemporary...Persia's doomed, arrogant war against the Creeks turns out...
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