[177] vii. 4. ‘Quia appellatione nostra vix apte exprimi possunt, Græca pronuntiatione Stratagemata dicuntur.’

[178] Livy, xlii. 47.

[179] Histoire de la France, iii. 401.

[180] The word musket is from muschetto, a kind of hawk, implying that its attack was equally destructive and unforeseen.

[181] Polyænus, ii. 19.

[182] Polyænus, iii. 2; from Thucydides, iii. 34.

[183] Ibid. vii. 27, 2.

[184] Ibid. iv. 2-4.

[185] Liskenne, Bibliothèque Historique et Militaire, iii. 845.

[186] Memoirs, ch. xix.