Two Great Retreats of History

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 Ségur\'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 better adapt the work to school use.Two maps are furnished an introduction is prefixed to each selection and all needed notes subjoined.Originally released in 1889.