The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) / From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France

by Edward Parrott

[130] Grav´lot.

[131] Reh-zon-veel´.

[132] Nine miles north-west of Metz.

[133] One of the seven archangels, considered to be the guardian of Israel.

[134] Seh-don´.

[135] Gee-von´.

[136] Vār-sa´y´, French town, 11 miles south-west of Paris, containing a famous palace of Louis XIV., said to have cost £40,000,000.

[137] Jofr, born 1852.

[138] Born 1850.

[139] Mah´di, false prophet of the Mohammedans, who preached a holy war in the Sudan, that part of Africa south of Egypt and the Sahara. He was conquered by a British and Egyptian force at Omdurman in 1885.