The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-12-22
WHERE VICTORIES WERE WON.

Lake Trasimene, where Hannibal
won victory over the Romans, is not
far from Perugia.
The famous battle of Culloden was
fought on Drummossle moor, four
miles northeast of Inverness.
The battle of Saratoga was fought,
not Immediately in the town, but on
The heights surrounding it.
The battle OF Cerro Gordo took its
name from mountain pass of Mexico,
forty miles northwest OF Vera Cruz.
Braddock was defeated, not at Pitts-
burg, as is generally supposed, but a.
roint on the Monongahela River ten
roiles from the city.
The battle of Bue1a Vista took Il,
Iame from hamlet Of Northeast Mex.
leo. In the State OF Cohahuila, seven
niles south Of Saltiilo.
Saarbruch, where one Of the first en-
&C gements Of the Franco-Prussian war
took place, Is little town ON the River
Saar. in Rhenish Prussia.
Ivry, where Henry ", won his fa-
nous victory over the league, is sit
uatod in the French department OF
Eure forty miles west OF Paris.
The Schipka passes where terrible
conhits took place between the Rus
SLAMS and the Turks, are in the Cen
tral Balkans, to the west OF Schumba.
Blenheim, where the Duke Of Marlbo-
rough won his most brilliant victory,
Is a village of Bavaria, on the Danube,
twenty miles northwest OF Augsburg.
The bridge of Lodi, where Napoleon
first demonstrated his desperate cour-
Hge, is across the AIDA, at a little viii
lage in Lombardy, eighteen miles south
OF Milan.
Yorktown, where Cornwnlls was
hemmod in and compelled to capitulate,
is ten miles from the mouth OF the York
River and sixty miles southeast OF
Richmond.
Concord, Mass. where the battle was
leans, is forty-five miles from the At
ianslc coaat and sixty miles northwest
Of Boston.
Worth, whe,e the French and Prus-
SLAMS CAME into bloody conflict during
the last war, is small town OF Alsace-
Lorraine. ten miles to the southwest
OF Weissenburg.
Metz, where Marshal Bazaine and
more than 100000 French surrendered
TO the Germans, is a fortified city OF
Aloace-Lorraine, eighty miles north
west of Strasburg.
Dunklrk, where Turennc defeated
Condo during the HuSuenot wars Of
France, is O. seaport on the Strait OF
dg. In.
France, 150 miles from Paris.
UIm. where the entire Austrian army;
cGpi.ula cd to Napoleon. is situated in
Wur;cmherg in what wos called NJ
thet time The Circle OF the Danube"
1t is forty miles from Stuttgart.
The gillage OF Nsseby gave rs nomo
70 the great victory wen by the troora
OF the Parliament over Charles I. 1t
Is situated in Norihamrtonshire, twelve
riles northwcct OF Northampton.
TIE battle OF Cowpens. where Tsr'e-
ton was defeated during the Reyolu-
'ionsry War. took its name from viii
lage in spartansburg County. S. c.,
near the border Of Meth Carolina.
Selamis, where the Persian power on
the sen WIS broken by the Greek fleet,
Is en- inlet between en- ialand OF tho
samo namo and the mainland OF
Greece 1t is ten miles west o. Athens.
Austerliz, where Nnro'o0n's greatest
victory was won. is town OF MoraYil,
situated on the Littawa River, twelve
miles cast of Brunn. The battle was
fought in the heights beyond tAe town.
GAIA, the town from which Samson
carried or the gates, and whore Pole
my defeated Eometrlrs, Is on the cara
van route between Syria and Egypt.
about thrt Mills from the Medlterran-
can.