The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-62 I. ( Egypt—The Battle of Kadesh 123 were captured and, on being beaten, they revealed the truth of the nearness ofthe Hittites. Rameses hasti
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-62 I. ( Egypt—The Battle of Kadesh 123 were captured and, on being beaten, they revealed the truth of the nearness ofthe Hittites. Rameses hastily ordered the recall of such of his troops as hadmarched on, while with the men left at hand he met a sudden attack from theHittites. - -s -TV The chief force of the Asiatics consisted of twenty-five hundred chariots, eachcontaining three men. These charged against the Egyptian camp with itsrough embankments. They broke through the defense, and Rameses met themwithin the camp, charging in his own chariot at the head of his household times, he tells us, he dashed against the Hittite chariots and Ijroke theirranks. Once he was alone in their midst; but by the valor of his single arm,or so he assures the world, he put the whole twenty-five hundred to the Egyptian troops, who had marched away, got back; and the enemy,after a whole days battling, were driven from the camp. The next morning the Hittites attacked again. This
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