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The two great retreats of history. 1. The retreat of the ten thousand. 2. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow

Philippe-Paul Ségur · 1889 · Scanned text · Free in the US

99,044 words · about 6 h 56 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1889, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/05014932); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Philippe-Paul Ségur
Language
English
Published
1889
Length
99,044 words · about 6 h 56 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (3)
  1. Prefatory Note under 1 min
  2. Table Of Contents about 6 h 50 min
  3. Index To Notes about 6 min
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Prefatory Note

The two following selections contain, first, Grote's account of the Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks, taken from his " History of Greece," and, secondly, an abridgment of Count S^gur's narrative of Napoleon's retreat from Russia.

Grote's History, based on Xenophon's, is given entire, with the exception that, in a very few instances, some slight verbal change has been made in order to better adapt the work to school use.

Two maps are furnished, an introduction is prefixed to each

selection, and all needed notes subjoined.

D. H. M.

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