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er the fall of Els fat]6 6sla
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Carth ginians. At fW6 He
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the Whct conntry, defsafef q s.
Maximus and Farro, march 10
1Gapua, and, at the age Of thisss3 s.,
was laundering at the gatesof H 3
Scipio Africanus was nearly S San
when ho took an active part Tie
battle Of Canne, and saved tho d b Of
his father. The wreck of the. Roman
cavalry chose him for their leadst.
and he conducted them back; To the
capital Soon after he was twenty
he was appointed ypro-C Consnl of
Spain, where lie took New Carthare
by storm. He soon after S16 q q
successfully Asdrubal, "a ami 7 q /
father, Mago ard Hanno, crose 7b5 81:
Africa, .negot otiated With sSypIi ~
Massahan king, returned "a 6sssj s. e 3.
+auelled: the insurrection there IS;
the Carthag ginians who'll ron fKes
peniDsulary returned to ROM, devised
the diversion against the sCartbagi.
mans By carrying the warinto AiafIica,
crossed thither, destroy ed the army;
of Syphax, compelled the rctnba6k
Hannibal, and defeated 3Asdrnbal 81
second time. q;
Charlemagne was crowned Ring
Of the Franks before he was twenty !.
six. At the age Of twenty EIGHT lie
had conquered Aquitania, and at the
age of tWenty.nine he made himself
master of the whole German and
French empires. n 8, sss
Charles XIT., of Sweden, was de.
clared King by the States, and sue.
ceeded his father at the age Of ffteen.
At eighteen lie headed the expedition
against the Danes, whom he checked;
and with a fourth Of their number.
he cut to pieces the Russian army
commanded by the Gar Peter, al
Narva; crossed the Dwina, gained q
victory over Saxony, and carried his
arms into Poland. At twenty-one he
had conquered Poland, and indicated
to her new sovereign. At twenty
four ne had subdued Saxony, and at.
twenty-seyen he was conducting his
victorious troops into the heart ef
Russia, when o severe wound pre-
vented his taking command in per-
son, and sesulted in his overthrow,
and subsequent treaeherous captivity
in Turkey.
La Fayette was major general IN,
thU American army at the age Of
was but twenty whom no
was wounded at Brandywine, but
twenty-five when he raised supplies
for the American army, on his own
credit, at Baltimore, and but thirty
three when he was raised to the Office
IF commander in chief Of the Nation.
Il Guards of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte commenced
his military careor as an officer Of
at the age of seventeen. At
twenty-four he successfully COM
nanded the artillery at Toulon. His
splendid and victorious campaign in
Italy was performed at the age Of
twenty-seven. During the next year,
when he was about twenty.eight, he
gained a battle over the Austrians, in
Italy, conquered Mantua, carried the
war into Austria, rayaged Tyrol, con-
GUIDED an advantageous peace, took
possession of Milan and the Venetian
revolutionized Genoa, and
formed the Cisalpine Republics At
The age Of twentynine he. received.
the command .ofSthe3 army against
Egypt; scattered the clouds of Name
uke cavalry, mastered Alexandra,
Aboukir, Cairo, and wrestled the land
If the. Pharaohs and Ptolemies from
he proud descendants of the proph-t
IT. At thirty he fell among the Pari
'ians like q thunderbolt, overthrew
he dictatorial government, dispersed
he council Of five hundred, and was
proclaimed First Consul. At the age
If thirty-one he crossed the Alps with
IN army, and destroyed the Austrians
BY blow at Marengo. At theage Of
thirty -one he established the code Of
in the Same year. he was
elected Consul for life by the people,
and at the age of thirty-three he was
crowned Emperor of the French geo-
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