East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-10-01
Brief Accounts II the most Famous Bat
ties Of Ancient and Modern Times.
TnE nATTLn 0T AscALoN.

Ahb bAilLI or ANtALON.
In the year 1892, between Richard the
First, aud tho Sultan Saadin, who com
manded 800, 900 Saracens in the battle,
was another great and terrible Slaughter.
over 10000 Saraccns were left dead ON
tho field. The number OF wounded, thou
sands of whom must have died Of their
wounds, was immensely great. The Eng
lish loss was cou,ilerable
Tlm nArrLEoF nANNocRBuRV.
Which was fought between the Scotch
and English, resulted IN the defeat of the
English. Bruce bad $4,000 Scots, and
Edward 100 600 Euplshin this battle.
Upward of 5000 English were Killed
and wounded, June p, 1914.
THE BATTLE or Grassy, OR cEEcY. =
This bloody battle was fought on the
Doth Of August, \. d. 1916, between
Edward III, Of England, aud his son
Edwar |, called on account of his back
armor, the Black Prince, and Philip, King
of France. The Esgllsh gained what
the historian calls "the most glorious tr.
umph ever achieved by English anns.n-
And IN proof Of it states, that the King
of Maiorca, Duke Of bohemia, Duke OF
Lorraine, (all sovereign princcs,) a large
number Of French mobiles, and 10000
privatSs Of the French were slain, while
the loss on the English side was but tri.
fling.
The crest Of the King Of Bohemia,
three ostrich feathers being the ornament
Of the helmet Of heIaldry, was taken
with the motto-"Ich Dicn in Eng
!jsl, 81 serve" was considered splendid
trophy. This has ever since been adopt
ell by heirs to the British crown The
Prince Of Wales, always the heir appa-
rent, has the feathers. The slaughtered
thousands were as nothing compared to
the plume OF feathers. Such is war and
glory
THE BATTLE or tGrNCOURT.
This battle was fought between the
English under Henry the Fifth and the
French, October 2G, lil5. The English
loss in this battle did not exceed 100
while tho French had 10000 killed and
- 900 prisoners taken. Such a tremen-
dous slaughter Of the one army while the
other escaped with comparatively mono,
would stagger the belief Of the most
credulous minds, were it not well authcn.
ticatcd by impartial history.
THE BATTLE OF BoSwoRrH FIELD.
There had been no less than thirteen
battles fought between the rival houses
Of York, and Lancaster, called the owars
OF the roses in England but the battle
of Bosworth Field decided the "wars Of
the roses forever. King Richard the
Third arraycd his forces against those
under the Earl Of Richmond, aftcrward
King Henry the Seventh. In this battle
the pride and the chiyalry, the bone and
the sinew, the very noblcst of England's
sons, were arrayed in deadly hate and
strife against each other
Bosworth Field was bloody one on
August %, in the year 1lGS. For the
thirteen years preceding, blood and life
and treasure were expended for this su.
prcmacy. Richard was slain on the battle
field, where, whom his horse was shot, he
called for another, saying, "a kingdom for
a horse But his doom was sealed, and
his life and kingdom ended on Bosworth
field. The carnage on both sides was
immense, and this, the last battle of the
"white and red roses" will ever be re-
garded as bloody act in a bloody drama.
THE BATTLE OF AspERNR.
This terrible battle was fought on the
2lst of May, 1909, and continued two
following days, between tho Austrians
under the Archduke Charles, and the
French, under Napoleon. The Austrian
losslwas 20,000 that Of the French 30,
600, and although they fought under the
parsnnal loadorah;P OF tho great NapV-
leon, yet the Austrians were the victors
Tho bridge over the river Danube was
destroyed during the contest, which rem
dered Napolcon's retreat extremely crit
ical.
THE BATTLE OF SALAMANCA.
This celebrated battle between the
English and allies, under Lord yelling
ton, and the French, under Lord Mar
mont, was on the 22d Of July, 1872
The battle was won by Wellington, al
though the allies suffered severely, the
killed, wounded and missing being nearly
5000, while that Of the French, in killed
and wounded, was 5000. Marmont left
in the victor's hands, 7,14l prisoners, l |
pieces Of cannon stand of colors, and
what was considered mere humiliating
than all--two eagles. i.)
THE BATTLE OF BoRoDfSA, OR MosLwA. .
Has been described as the "most san
culinary in the record of the world" y
This great battle was fought September
7, 1872, between the French armies and
Russian. Napoleon commanded the French
in person, tho Russians by Rutsnof. Two
hundred and forty thousand troops were
engaged in this battle. The loss on both
sides was so immense that each side
claimed the victory; but as the Russians
retreated, impartial history decides it in
favor of Napoleon, who pursued the enc
my to Moscow, and entered it on the 18th
Of September.
Hero it was that Napoleon experienced
signal reverse Of fortune, which seemed
20 date his final downfall. The details
of the horrid slaughter and scenes of this
hattie are 40 THRILLING as to awaken every