Famous Battles of the Nineteenth Century DESCRIBED BY ARCHIBALD FORBES, GEORGE A. HENTY WELL-KNOWN WRITERS EDITED BY CHARLES WELSH Author of "A Bookseller of the Last Century," etc., etc. 1801-1815 WITH 16 ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK A. WESSELS COMPANY Copyright, 1904, by A. Wessels Company New York Printed, October, 1903 HARVARD RY UP 1 1982 PRESS OF BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. PREFACE HE Famous Battles of the Nineteenth TH every continent on the globe and have consolidated our own great nation. Therefore a knowledge of them, their causes and effects, is essential to a true understanding of worldhistory. They have also called forth all that is patriotic, and noble, and courageous, and self-sacrificing in many of those who took part in them—in spite of the fact that war is a manifestation of the baser passion of human nature. True it is that "he who ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city," and yet war with all its horrors calls for the exercise of all that self-restraint, and all that strength of character, and all that obedience to the call of duty, which we every one of us admire and which we all should emulate. Moreover, the same courage and the same resourcefulness which has been evoked by the famous battles, in officer and common soldier alike, are needed always in life, and if read in |