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Venosa (Italy) (search for this): article 1
. So eager was the throng which pressed to the treasury that the clerks were unable to make a full registry of the names. This patriotic loan saved the State; and it was even more valuable in the spirit which it called forth than for the actual relief which it afforded to the treasury." "When C. Terentius Varra had, by his impudence and bad generalship, lost the fatal battle of Cannæ and brought the Republic to the verge of ruin, after he had delivered the fugitives he had rallied at Venusia and Casilinum into the hands of his successor, himself set out to Rome to make a personal report of his conduct. With what feelings he approached the city may be imagined. But as he drew near, the Senate and people went out to meet him, and publicly thanked him, 'for that he had not despaired of the Republic.'" Saith the Roman historian: "History presents no nobler spectacle than this. Had he been a Carthaginian General, he would have been crucified." Which code shall Christian nations
Rossbach (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) (search for this): article 1
well to equal before we settle down in the pleasing conviction that Americans are the greatest of mankind. Do we not remember how Frederick of Prussia, with a population of scarcely five millions of inhabitants, carried on a seven year's war, from 1756 to 1763, against the combined forces of Austria, Russia, France, Sweden and Saxony? In the course of this war, with far inferior forces, he was under the necessity of meeting superior forces, as sailing him at all points. In the battle of Rossbach, Frederick had only twenty-two thousand opposed to an army of fifty thousand. In the battle near Leu then, he had only thirty thousand to oppose eighty thousand; and in both these instances, he gained most signal victories. But he had many sad reverses, as in the battle of Hotchkirk, in which he was defeated by the Austrians, losing many of his best officers, a large number of his best troops, and all his baggage and ammunition. His enemies appeared to be inexhaustible in men and resour
Moscow, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): article 1
mans! "Remember," exclaims Dr. Minnegerode, in a note to his admirable sermon, "how Athens gave up her city for the salvation of Greece; transported her women and children to Aegina and Troezene, and sent her men to man 'the wooden walls" which the Oracle had pronounced their safety, and in which they gained the battle of Salamis. Remember the siege of Tyre and Sidon and other cities, and their heroic defence — the like of which this war has not yet seen; the retreat of the French from Moscow, the crossing of the Berezine, the rear guard under Ney, whose heroic endurance yet stands unrivalled! " The invasion of Hannibal reduced Rome to straits similar to those which form our present crisis. The campaigns of 218, 217, and 216, with the defeats on the Trebia, the Lake Trasimene, and the crushing blow at Cannæ, where her legions were all but annihilated, the defection of all Southern Italy, and the dread of " Hannibal ante portas" had reduced her to the last extremities. In that t
Russia (Russia) (search for this): article 1
he fiery furnace seven times heated, rewarded them finally with liberty and independence! Nor are these the only examples which the same race have afforded of achievements that we would do well to equal before we settle down in the pleasing conviction that Americans are the greatest of mankind. Do we not remember how Frederick of Prussia, with a population of scarcely five millions of inhabitants, carried on a seven year's war, from 1756 to 1763, against the combined forces of Austria, Russia, France, Sweden and Saxony? In the course of this war, with far inferior forces, he was under the necessity of meeting superior forces, as sailing him at all points. In the battle of Rossbach, Frederick had only twenty-two thousand opposed to an army of fifty thousand. In the battle near Leu then, he had only thirty thousand to oppose eighty thousand; and in both these instances, he gained most signal victories. But he had many sad reverses, as in the battle of Hotchkirk, in which he wa
Sweden (Sweden) (search for this): article 1
seven times heated, rewarded them finally with liberty and independence! Nor are these the only examples which the same race have afforded of achievements that we would do well to equal before we settle down in the pleasing conviction that Americans are the greatest of mankind. Do we not remember how Frederick of Prussia, with a population of scarcely five millions of inhabitants, carried on a seven year's war, from 1756 to 1763, against the combined forces of Austria, Russia, France, Sweden and Saxony? In the course of this war, with far inferior forces, he was under the necessity of meeting superior forces, as sailing him at all points. In the battle of Rossbach, Frederick had only twenty-two thousand opposed to an army of fifty thousand. In the battle near Leu then, he had only thirty thousand to oppose eighty thousand; and in both these instances, he gained most signal victories. But he had many sad reverses, as in the battle of Hotchkirk, in which he was defeated by th
France (France) (search for this): article 1
ld, with an eagle's face, and moving with an eagle's wings? Do we remember those patriots reduced to such an extremity that they offered to give their country to France if she would save them from Spain, and that France refused the offered gift; and that while their envoys were absent, soliciting foreign intervention, and refreshFrance refused the offered gift; and that while their envoys were absent, soliciting foreign intervention, and refreshing themselves, after the manner of ambassadors, with feasting and frolicking, the people at home were eating rats, and cats, and dogs, and the weeds from the pavements, and the grass from the churchyards? And have we forgotten that, in defiance of all this, they held out to the bitter end, and that, at last, God having tried thesia, with a population of scarcely five millions of inhabitants, carried on a seven year's war, from 1756 to 1763, against the combined forces of Austria, Russia, France, Sweden and Saxony? In the course of this war, with far inferior forces, he was under the necessity of meeting superior forces, as sailing him at all points. In
Saxony (Saxony, Germany) (search for this): article 1
s heated, rewarded them finally with liberty and independence! Nor are these the only examples which the same race have afforded of achievements that we would do well to equal before we settle down in the pleasing conviction that Americans are the greatest of mankind. Do we not remember how Frederick of Prussia, with a population of scarcely five millions of inhabitants, carried on a seven year's war, from 1756 to 1763, against the combined forces of Austria, Russia, France, Sweden and Saxony? In the course of this war, with far inferior forces, he was under the necessity of meeting superior forces, as sailing him at all points. In the battle of Rossbach, Frederick had only twenty-two thousand opposed to an army of fifty thousand. In the battle near Leu then, he had only thirty thousand to oppose eighty thousand; and in both these instances, he gained most signal victories. But he had many sad reverses, as in the battle of Hotchkirk, in which he was defeated by the Austrians
Italy (Italy) (search for this): article 1
heir heroic defence — the like of which this war has not yet seen; the retreat of the French from Moscow, the crossing of the Berezine, the rear guard under Ney, whose heroic endurance yet stands unrivalled! " The invasion of Hannibal reduced Rome to straits similar to those which form our present crisis. The campaigns of 218, 217, and 216, with the defeats on the Trebia, the Lake Trasimene, and the crushing blow at Cannæ, where her legions were all but annihilated, the defection of all Southern Italy, and the dread of " Hannibal ante portas" had reduced her to the last extremities. In that terrible battle forty thousand Romans (at the lowest calculation) had fallen, and three thousand horse, involving the death of some of the wealthiest and most distinguished citizens, with one consul, both the pro-consuls, both the quaestors, twenty-one out of forty-eight tribunes, and not less than eighty senators, among the slain. History does not record any defeat more complete, and very few mo
Preussen (search for this): article 1
Nor are these the only examples which the same race have afforded of achievements that we would do well to equal before we settle down in the pleasing conviction that Americans are the greatest of mankind. Do we not remember how Frederick of Prussia, with a population of scarcely five millions of inhabitants, carried on a seven year's war, from 1756 to 1763, against the combined forces of Austria, Russia, France, Sweden and Saxony? In the course of this war, with far inferior forces, he wa as in the battle of Hotchkirk, in which he was defeated by the Austrians, losing many of his best officers, a large number of his best troops, and all his baggage and ammunition. His enemies appeared to be inexhaustible in men and resources. Prussia was drained of its men, and even boys, by conscription; was frequently overrun and desolated by the enemy, and even its capital (Berlin) captured; and, withal, oppressed with heavy taxation. Yet Frederick triumphed, and lived to see his country
Parma (Italy) (search for this): article 1
d Republicanism, is one of the most manly heroical and conquering races of the earth. Surely, we are not going to allow our contest to be thrown into the shade by those Dutchiest of Dutchmen, the people of the New Netherlands. Have we forgotten the long years of their protracted and desperate struggle? How they contended against immensely greater odds than we are compelled to encounter in this contest; how, pressing them from post to post, was that wonderful military genius, the Prince of Parma, a man born to command; greatest among the great captains whom the military schools of Italy had given to the world, with an eagle's face, and moving with an eagle's wings? Do we remember those patriots reduced to such an extremity that they offered to give their country to France if she would save them from Spain, and that France refused the offered gift; and that while their envoys were absent, soliciting foreign intervention, and refreshing themselves, after the manner of ambassadors, wi
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