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 Makers of History

 Pyrrhus

 BY JACOB ABBOTT

 WITH ENGRAVINGS

 NEW YORK AND LONDON
 HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
 1901




 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
 hundred and fifty-four, by

 HARPER & BROTHERS,

 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
 of New York.




[Illustration: PYRRHUS VIEWING THE ROMAN ENCAMPMENT.]




PREFACE.


In respect to the heroes of ancient history, who lived in times
antecedent to the period when the regular records of authentic history
commence, no reliance can be placed upon the actual verity of the
accounts which have come down to us of their lives and actions. In
those ancient days there was, in fact, no line