The battles of the world : $b or, cyclopedia of battles, sieges, and important military events — John Shaqi
The battles of the world : $b or, cyclopedia of battles, sieges, and important military eventsBorthwick, J. Douglas (John Douglas)
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The battles of the world : $b or, cyclopedia of battles, sieges, and important military events
Borthwick, J. Douglas (John Douglas)
Battles; Military history
ANTOIGN.--This battle was fought between the central army of the
French and the Allies, August 13th, 1792, in which 4500 Austrians
and Prussians were killed, 3,500 taken prisoners, and 600 emigrants
shut up in Longwy; 900 French were killed in the action; 30 pieces
of battering cannon and howitzers, with all the baggage of the
combined army, were captured.
AQUILEIA.--In the first battle fought there, Constantine II
was slain by Constans towards the close of March, A.D. 340. In
the second, Maximus was defeated and slain by Theodosius, July
28th. A.D. 388. In the third, Theodosius defeated Eugenius and
Arbogastes, the Gaul, and remained sole emperor of the Roman world,
September 6th, A.D. 394. Eugenius was put to death, and Arbogastes
died by his own hand, mortified by his overthrow.
ARBELA.--The third and decisive battle fought between Alexander
the Great and Darius Codomanus, king of Persia, which decided the
fate of Persia, B.C. 331. The army of Darius consisted of 1,000,000
of foot and 100,000 horse; the Macedonian army amounted to only
40,000 foot and 7,000 horse. The gold and silver found in the
cities of Susa, Babylon, and Persepolis, which fell into the hands
of Alexander, after this victory, amounted to £30,000,000, and the
jewels and other precious spoil, belonging to Darius, sufficed to
load 20,000 mules and 5,000 camels. At the battle of Arbela, the
Persians lost 300,000, or as some, with greater probability, say
40,000, whilst the Macedonians had only 500 slain. Darius betook
himself to flight, and was slain by Bessus, Governor of Bactria,
who was punished for his perfidy in the following manner:--He was
taken and bound naked, hand and foot, and four trees having been by
main force bent down to the ground, and one of the criminal’s limbs
tied to each of them, the trees, as they were suffered to return to
their natural position, flew back with prodigious violence, each
carrying with it one of the limbs.
ARCOLA.--This battle was fought between the French, under General
Bonaparte, and the Austrians, under Field-Marshal Alvinzy,
November 19th, 1796. The result of this bloody conflict, which was
fought for eight successive days, was the loss on the part of the
Austrians of 12,000 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners, with 4
flags and 18 guns.
ARGENTARIA.--This battle was one of the most renowned of its times.
It was fought A.D. 378, in Alsace, between the Allemanni and the
Romans, the former being defeated by the latter, with the loss of
more than 35,000 men, out of their whole army of 40,000.
ARKLOW.--This battle was fought June 10th, 1798, between the
insurgent Irish, amounting to 31,000, and a small regular force of
British, which signally defeated them.
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