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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