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  BATTLES OF DESTINY

  BY SISTER M. FIDES SHEPPERSON, M. A.


  AUTHOR OF

  “HARP OF MILAN,” “CLOISTER CHORDS,” ETC.


  PRICE SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS


  FOR SALE AT
  MOUNT MERCY CONVENT
  PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
  ALSO AT UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE
  1 9 1 4




  COPYRIGHT 1914 BY
  SISTER M. FIDES SHEPPERSON, M. A.
  MOUNT MERCY CONVENT
  PITTSBURGH, PENNA.




INTRODUCTION


This little volume will prove of interest to the general reader
and of inestimable value to the student or teacher of history. It
contains graphic descriptions of the seventeen great struggles
of the historic past--Marathon, Arbela, Zama, Teutobergerwald,
Adrianople, Chalons, Tours, Senlac-Hastings, Orleans, Lepanto,
Spanish Armada, Naseby, Blenheim, Pultowa, Saratoga, Valmy, and
Waterloo. Dates, figures, facts, estimates and reflections are
presented in attractive form; and the net results of long research
labor are given in a nutshell.

Those terrific conflicts of the past seem strangely fascinating
when looked at in their crucial throes ere yet they are stamped
with the die of destiny. The thoughtful mind asks, “Would