SWISS WARS, etc. The thread of evolution is also traced through the separate narrations of the more famous battles of each period, such as DARAS, TRICAMERON, TAGINAE and MANZIKERT, COURTRAI, ACRE, ARSUF and BOUVINES, and TAGLIACOZZO, BANNOCKBURN, DUPPLIN MOOR, HALIDON HILL, CRECY, POITIERS and AGINCOURT,