Edward Shepherd Creasy

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy (12 September 1812 – 17 January 1878) was an English historian and jurist.

[2] In 1840, he began teaching history at the University of London and wrote a number of historical books including The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1851).

The reason that Creasy gives for the significance of many of the fifteen battles is that they denied Eastern peoples access to European soil.

[citation needed] Other battles are seen as "decisive" because they shaped the development of Britain, which was the world's leading power at the time of writing.

With John Sheehan and Robert Gordon Latham, Creasy took part in contributing to Bentley's Miscellany, the political squibs in verse known as the Tipperary Papers.