Forbes Archibald, Henty G.A., Griffiths Arthur. Battles of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 6

London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 396 р.The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in this introduction, at the individual careers of some of the most famous of them ere we pass on to the pages which shall deal with their exploits, battle and shall tell an detail of their skill and prowess, and their fortunes of war, their victories and their defeats.