Describes the major conflicts of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including military strategy and technological developments.

Includes index.

Overview -- Shoguns and samurai -- Armada, 1588 -- English Civil War -- New model army -- War of the Spanish succession, 1701-1714 -- Jacobite rebellion -- Frederic the great -- American revolution, 1775-1783 -- Battles for independence -- Napoleonic wars, 1797-1815 -- Nelson's navy -- Peninsular wars -- Road to Waterloo -- Crimean war, 1854-1856 -- American Civil War -- Union victory -- American Indian Wars, 1854-1890 -- Time line -- Glossary -- Index.