The battle roll: an encyclopedia containing descriptions of the most famous and memorable land battles and sieges in all ages . f ^•WW ^^. ? LK Ul AGlNCOl AYACUCHO—AZINCOUR. 69 their fate forms one of the blackest pages inthe history of Napoleon Bonaparte. Thebloody battle of Austerlitz was over. Tliirtythousand corpses strewed the plain. Eighteenthousand of the Russian and Austrian armywere destroyed, whOe 12,000 Frenchmenmet a like fate. The success of this battlefirmly established Napoleons seat upon theFrench throne. AYACUCHO, 1824.—Near this townin South Peru, South America, was foug
The battle roll: an encyclopedia containing descriptions of the most famous and memorable land battles and sieges in all ages . f ^•WW ^^. ? LK Ul AGlNCOl AYACUCHO—AZINCOUR. 69 their fate forms one of the blackest pages inthe history of Napoleon Bonaparte. Thebloody battle of Austerlitz was over. Tliirtythousand corpses strewed the plain. Eighteenthousand of the Russian and Austrian armywere destroyed, whOe 12,000 Frenchmenmet a like fate. The success of this battlefirmly established Napoleons seat upon theFrench throne. AYACUCHO, 1824.—Near this townin South Peru, South America, was fought abattle between the combined forces of Colum-bia and Peru, and the Spanish army, the 9thof December 1824, which resulted in thetotal defeat of the latter, and put an end toSpanish dominion on the American continent. AZINCOUR, 1415.—In the year 1415,Henry V., of England, invaded France withan army of 6,000 men-at-arms, and 24,000foot, mostly archers. He landed near Har-fleur, and immediately began the siege of thatplace, which was valiantly defended byDEstoutviUe, and under him by De Guitri,De Gaucort, and others of t
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