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Title: The Two Great Retreats of History

Author: George Grote
Count Philippe-Paul de Segur

Editor: David Henry Montgomery

Release Date: August 22, 2008 [EBook #26390]

Language: English

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THE

TWO GREAT RETREATS OF HISTORY.

I. THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND.

II. NAPOLEON'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW.

_WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES_

By

D. H. M.

BOSTON, U.S.A.: PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY. 1889.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by

GINN & COMPANY,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.

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 Segur'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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
PAGE
Sketch of Cyrus the Younger (Introductory to the Retreat of the
Ten Thousand) v

Sec. 1. Effect of the death of Cyrus on the Greeks; they resolve to
retreat 1

Sec. 2. Commencement of the retreat 6

Sec. 3. Negotiations with Tissaphernes