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Updated: June 11, 2025
Mary's..... The Island capitulates..... Island of Marigalante taken by General Barrington..... He returns to England..... Treaty with the Indians in North America..... Plan of the Campaign..... Ticonderoga and Crown Point abandoned by the French..... General Amherst embarks on Lake Champlain..... Niagara reduced..... Introduction to the Expedition against Quebec..... General Wolfe lands on the Island of Orleans, and takes Point Levi..... The English Fleet damaged by a Storm..... General Wolfe encamps near the Falls of the River Montmorenci, and attacks the French Intrenchments there, but is repulsed..... Brigadier Murray detached up the River..... Council of War called..... The Troops land at the Heights of Abraham..... Battle of Quebec..... Quebec taken..... Rejoicings in England
One corps, spreading out in broad battalions, marches across the great prairies and winding through the gorges of the Rocky mountains, encamps on the shore of Peaceful sea: another, skirting the waves of the gulfs and fording the wide rivers of the South, plants its outposts on the Rio Grande; a third cuts its way through the trackless forests on the northern border till it strikes the lakes, and then crossing these inland seas or passing round them, pauses and breathes for a season in that great expanse known as the country of the Red River of the North.
Loses its pontoons, loses most of its baggage; obliged to set fire, not to the Pandours, but to your own wagons, and necessaries of army life; encamps on bleak heights; no food, not even water; road quite lost, road to be rediscovered or invented; Pandours sputtering on you out of every bush and hollow, your peasant wagoners cutting traces and galloping off: such are the phenomena of that march by circuit leftward, on the poor Prince's part.
That night he encamps at a place called Rohrsdorf; which may be eight miles west-by-north from Dresden, as the crow flies; and ten or more, if you follow the highway round by Wilsdruf on your right.
Without further apprehensions for the event, he resolved to remain in Cuzco, and there quietly await the hour when a last appeal to arms should decide which of the two was to remain master of Peru. Dismay In Gasca's Camp His Winter Quarters Resumes His March Crosses The Apurimac Pizarro's Conduct In Cuzco He Encamps Near The City Rout Of Xaquixaguana
The mechanic who furnishes his tiny sitting-room with half-a-dozen cane chairs, a Pembroke table, a Dutch clock, a tiny looking-glass, a crockery shepherd and shepherdess, and a set of gaudily-japanned iron tea-trays, makes the most of his limited possessions, and generally contrives to get some degree of comfort out of them; but the lady who loses the handsome furniture of the house she is compelled to abandon and encamps in some smaller habitation with the shabby remainder bought in by some merciful friend at the sale of her effects carries with her an aspect of genteel desolation and tawdry misery not easily to be paralleled in wretchedness by any other phase which poverty can assume.
Ancient intrenchments. View at Thermopylæ. The allied forces. Leonidas the Spartan. Debate in regard to defending Thermopylæ. The decision. Character of the Spartans. Their pride. The Spartans adorn themselves for the battle. Approach of Xerxes. The Persian horseman. His observation. Report of the horseman. Conversation with Demaratus. Xerxes encamps at the pass. Troops sent into the pass.
The Bridge of the Hellespont. Review of the Persian Armament at Abydos. Xerxes encamps at Therme. VI The Conduct of the Greeks. The Oracle relating to Salamis. Art of Themistocles. The Isthmian Congress. Embassies to Argos, Crete, Corcyra, and Syracuse. Their ill Success. The Thessalians send Envoys to the Isthmus. The Greeks advance to Tempe, but retreat.
The Bridge of the Hellespont. Review of the Persian Armament at Abydos. Xerxes Encamps at Therme. In the greatness of that army, in the youth of that prince, various parties beheld the instrument of interest or ambition. Mardonius, warlike and enterprising, desired the subjugation of Greece, and the command of the Persian forces.
He encamps there, takes up his quarters there, will not budge from there for any Admiral; and as for James Columbus and his counsellors, they may go to the devil for all Margarite cares.
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