The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-01-19
WHERE VICTORIES WE'RE WON,

Lake Trasimene, where Hannibal
non victory over the Romans, is not
!ar from Perugia.
Tho famous battle OF Culloden was
fought on Drummossie moor, four
uiles northeast Of Inverness.
The battle OF Saratoga was fought,
not Immediately in the town, but on
The heights surrounding 1t.
Tho battle Of Cerro Gordo took its
name from a mountain pass Of Mexico,
forty miles northwest OF Vera Cruz.
Braddock was defeated, net at Pits
burg, rs is generally supposed, but II
I point on the MononE E.hcla River len
GILES from the city.
The battle Of BucnG Vista took IT.
ramo from hamlet Of Northeast Mcy.
go. in the S:ate o. C0hahu!la, seven
niles south OF Salti!!o.
Saarbruch, whore one Of the FIRST On
ragcmonts of the Franco-Prugsian war
oo)i place, is liUtle town on the River
Saar. in Rheniah Prussia.
Iyry, where Henry ", won his IA
nous victory over the league, Is sit
Iated in tho French department OF
lIure, forty miles west CT Paris.
TIC Schipka passes where terrible
'ondi's took place between The Rus
.,ans and the Turks. are in the Cen
.ral Balkans, to the west Of Schumba.
Blcnhcim, where the Duke of Marlbo-
rough won his most brilliant victory,
u village of Bavaria, on the Danube,
wcDty miles northwest of Augsburg.
The bridge OF Lodi where Napoleon
'rst demonstrated his desperate cour-
Sc. Is across the AIDA, at little viii
'Se in Lombardy, eighteen miles south
II Milan,
Yorktown, where Cornwalls was
Hemmod in and compelled to capitulate,
ten miles from the mouth of the York
liver ard sixty miles southeast OF
iliohrlond.
Concord, Mass, where the battle was
'ouGht leiwoen the British and Amer
cans. IS foYty-iYe miles from the At
0n.ic c0aGt and sixty miles northwest
IF Boston.
Worth, where the French and Prus-
slams came into bloody contiict during
no lat war, is a small town OF Alsace-
Lorraine. ten miles to the southwest
+ Weissonburg.
Metz. where Marshal Bazalnc and
more than 10000 French surrendered
tho Germans, t. q fortified city OF
Alsaco-Lcrraine, eighty miles north
vest of S,rasburg.
Duukirk, where Turenne defeated
'onde during the Huguenot wars OF
france, Is seaport on The Strait OF
NoYer. the moot northern town in
France, $50 miles from Paris.
Ulm. where the entire Austrian army
'apltullted to Napoleon, Is situated in
Vutembcrc, in what w0s called at
hat tinie The Circle OF the Danube"
1t is forty miles from Stuttgart.
Tho gillogo Of Naseby give rs name
n the greet Yictc.y won by the troops
'f The Parliament over Charles I. 1t
situated IN Eorthamr,onshire, twelve
miles ro.thweot Of Northampton.
The hatllo OF Covpens, where Tar'e-
On w7s defeated during the Rcvou-
loDHry W2r. took It's nome from n viz
'ngo in Sp?r.anshurg County, s, c.,
acpr The border of Nor'h Carolina.
Salamls, where the Persian power on
'he son was broken by the Greek fleet,
IS an inlet between an leland Of the
samo name ard the mainland Of
Greece. II is ten miles west OF Athens.
Austcrlit2, whore Napo'e1a's evoateat
gic ory was won, Is town OF Morayia.
situated on the Littawa River twelve
niles east Of Drunn. The battle was
fought In The heights beyond the town.
Ceza the town frcm which Samson
carried OF the gGtos, and where Ptole-
my defeated Denealus, Is on the cara
van route between Syria end Egypt.
about thrcr Mills from the Mediterran-
can.