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DUNES, _Lariviere_ 208 CHARLES XII. AND AN UNWILLING RECRUIT, _Thure von Cederstroem_ 212 PRINCE EUGENE AND THE MARSHAL DE VILLARS, _P. Philippoteaux_ 226 GENERAL WOLFE LANDING AT LOUISBURG, _Wild_ 232 FREDERICK AND THE AUSTRIANS AFTER LEUTHEN, _A. Kampf_ 242 MARSHAL NEY RETURNING THE CAPTURED COLORS, _Meynier_ 256 A REVIEW OF THE BRITISH ARMY BY WELLINGTON, 274 NELSON AT TRAFALGAR, _W. H. Overend_ 282 MARION CROSSING THE PEDEE, _W. Ranney_ 300 PAUL JONES AND LADY SELKIRK, _W. H. Overend_ 304 TECUMSEH DEFENDS THE WHITES AT FORT MEIGS, _Chapin_ 310 "DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP," _Alonzo Chappel_ 316 DECATUR'S CONFLICT WITH THE ALGERINE AT TRIPOLI _Alonzo Chappel_ 322 JACKSON AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, _A. R. Ward_ 378 MEETING OF VICTOR EMMANUEL AND GARIBALDI, _C. Ademollo_ 394 MOLTKE AT VERSAILLES, 1870, _Anton von Werner_ 400 ADMIRAL DEWEY LOVING CUP, 404 MARSHAL TURENNE (1611-1675) [Illustration: Turenne. [TN]] Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, esteemed, after Napoleon, the greatest of French generals, was born September 16, 1611. He was the second son of the Duc de Bouillon, Prince of Sedan, and of Elizabeth of Nassau, daughter of the celebrated William of Orange, to whose courage and talents the Netherlands mainly owed their deliverance from Spain. Both parents being zealous Calvinists, Turenne was of course brought up in the same faith. Soon after his father's death, the duchess sent him, when he was not yet thirteen years old, into the Low Countries, to learn the art of war under his uncle, Maurice of Nassau, who commanded the troops of Holland in the protracted struggle between that country and Spain. Maurice held that there was no royal road to military skill, and placed his young relation in the ranks, as a volunteer, where for some time he served, enduring all hardships to which the common soldiers were exposed. In his second ca
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