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Grote George. The Two Great Retreats of History
The Two Great Retreats of History
Table of Contents
I. THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND
II. NAPOLEON'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW
WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES
By
D. H. M
BOSTON, U.S.A.:
PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY
1889
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by
GINN & COMPANY,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington
All Rights Reserved
Typography By J. S. Cushing & Co., Boston, U.S.A
PREFATORY NOTE
MAPS
SKETCH OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER
FOOTNOTES:
RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND GREEKS
FOOTNOTES:
SKETCH OF NAPOLEON
FOOTNOTES:
NAPOLEON'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX TO NOTES
CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN
CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN
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George Grote, comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur
Published by Good Press, 2019
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After many delays, this latter course was the one they finally resolved to take, and owing to Xenophon's courage and resolution it turned out successfully.
After eight months of wandering, hardships, and peril, they all came in sight of the Euxine, and perhaps no shipwrecked sailors clinging to a raft ever cried "Land!" "Land!" with more joy than those Greeks who had climbed a hill-top shouted "The Sea!" "The Sea!"
