The Battles of the World / or, cyclopedia of battles, sieges, and important military events

J. Douglas Borthwick

PREFACE.

CYCLOPAEDIA OF THE BATTLES OF THE WORLD. A.

CHRONOLOGY.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

APPENDIX.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the alphabetical ‘CYCLOPÆDIA’ section, and the ‘APPENDIX’ section.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

Minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.

THE
BATTLES OF THE WORLD;

OR, CYCLOPÆDIA OF

BATTLES, SIEGES, AND IMPORTANT MILITARY EVENTS,

The Origin and Institution of Military Titles, &c. &c.,

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED,

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE,

FROM THE CREATION TO THE PRESENT DAY.

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO GENERAL SIR JOHN MICHEL.

REV. J. DOUGLAS BORTHWICK,

AUTHOR OF “CYCLOPÆDIA OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY,” “THE BRITISH AMERICAN READER,” AND “THE HARP OF CANAAN.”

Montreal:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN MUIR; AND PRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL,

ST. NICHOLAS STREET.

1866.

Entered, according to Act of Provincial Parliament, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, by John Muir, in the Office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada.

General Sir John Michel, K.C.B.,

Commanding the Forces

British North America,

As a small mark of respect to the highest Military Authority in these Provinces, and a token of esteem for one of the Generals of that glorious army which has fought and conquered in every age of its country’s history, and in almost every clime,—

Whose flag has braved a thousand years

The battle and the breeze;

And whose actions constitute NOT a small portion of the “Battles of the World,”

This work is dedicated

THE AUTHOR.

Montreal, August 1866.

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