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Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have beenplaced at the end of the alphabetical ‘CYCLOPÆDIA’ section, and the ‘APPENDIX’ section.
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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.
BY
REV. J. DOUGLAS BORTHWICK,
AUTHOR OF “CYCLOPÆDIA OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY,” “THE BRITISH AMERICANREADER,” 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 thousandeight hundred and sixty-six, by John Muir, in the Office of the Registrarof the Province of Canada.
To
General Sir John Michel, K.C.B.,
Commanding the Forces
in
British North America,
As a small mark of respect to the highest Military Authority in these Provinces, anda token of esteem for one of the Generals of that glorious army which has fought andconquered 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
BY
THE AUTHOR.
Montreal, August 1866.
Within the last decade of the history of Great Britain, somevery important books have been added to her literature, and especiallyto that particular division which treats of her wars andsplendid victories, during the same period. “The Fifteen DecisiveBattles of the World,” by Sir E. S. Creasy, Chief Justice ofCeylon; “The Twelve Great Battles of England,” inscribed tothe British Volunteers of 1860; “England’s Battles by Sea andLand,” “Russell’s Crimea and India,” “Emerson’s Sebastopol,” &c.,are valuable in themselves, as describing those victories which haveraised “Dear Old England” to the very first rank among thenations. But the object of the present publi