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TO HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY
THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE
THIS RECORD OF THE ZULU WAR IS, BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION,
HUMBLY DEDICATED, AS A POOR TRIBUTE AND OFFERING.
In Memoriam.
Worthy of the Race of Guzman, and of the soldier of Lodi and Arcola, while recalling memories of him who gave to the gods of the Tiber the gift most precious to Rome—Human Valour—Prince Louis Napoleon's name will live in the hearts of all his English comrades, as a type of pure chivalry, of knightly generosity, and as a rainbow of Hope over two great western powers, for centuries at war, but now allied in friendship.