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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