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  TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

  Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.

  Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been
  placed at the end of the alphabetical ‘CYCLOPÆDIA’ section, and the
  ‘APPENDIX’ section.

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  THE

  BATTLES OF THE WORLD;

  OR, CYCLOPÆDIA OF

  BATTLES, SIEGES, AND IMPORTANT MILITARY EVENTS,

  The Origin and Institution of Military Titles, &c. &c.,

  ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED,

  WITH AN APPENDIX,

  CONTAINING

  A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE,

  FROM THE CREATION TO THE PRESENT DAY.


  DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO GENERAL SIR JOHN MICHEL.


  BY

  REV. J. DOUGLAS BORTHWICK,

  AUTHOR OF “CYCL