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DICTIONARY OF BATTLES

SONNENSCHEIN'S DICTIONARIES OF QUOTATIONS

1.ENGLISH (Third Edition) P. H. Dalbiac.
2.CLASSICAL (Second Edition) T. B. Harbottle.
3.FRENCH AND ITALIAN (Second Edition){T. B. Harbottle.
P. H. Dalbiac.
4.GERMAN Lilian Dalbiac.
5.SPANISH T. B. Harbottle.
6.WHAT GREAT MEN HAVE SAID ABOUT GREAT MEN W. Wale.
7.CONTEMPORARY [ENGLISH] QUOTATIONS H. Swan.
8.FAMOUS SAYINGS AND THEIR AUTHORS E. Latham.
9.DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS T. B. Harbottle.
10.DICTIONARY OF BATTLES T. B. Harbottle.

DICTIONARY OF
BATTLES

From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

By

THOMAS BENFIELD HARBOTTLE

AUTHOR OF "DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS" (CLASSICAL); "DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS"; CO-AUTHOR OF "DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS" (FRENCH AND ITALIAN)

LONDON

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. LTD.

High Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.

1904

PREFACE

The sad death of Mr. Harbottle, just as this work was going to press, has thrown upon me the onus of correcting the proofs and preparing the Index. The necessity for hurrying the work through the press has precluded comparison of the references in every instance with the original sources from which the Author had taken them; if therefore some few printer's errors or varieties of spelling may still remain, they may, I hope, be attributed to the imperfections of one, who had to step suddenly into the breach caused by the loss of a valued friend and collaborator, whose patience in research, depth of knowledge and accuracy in compilation, he could never hope to equal.

October, 1904. P. H. Dalbiac.

DICTIONARY OF BATTLES