The earliest reliably recorded battle in history, the victory of Pharaoh Thutmose III at Megiddo, set down by the scribe Tjaneni. It survives in the temple annals carved at Karnak.
Sources for Tjaneni — An Account of the Battle of Megiddo
Tjaneni — An Account of the Battle of Megiddo in War & Military Thought
Held in the War & Military Thought chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Sun Tzu — The Art of War (−500)
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Xenophon — Anabasis (The March of the Ten Thousand) (−370)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Arrian — The Anabasis of Alexander (150)
- Carl von Clausewitz — On War (1832)
- Antoine-Henri Jomini — The Art of War (1838)