The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-23

OF Greece 33s II. c. All who honor lost cause
will bring their offerings 20 this sacred spot
The heroes who fought here did not propose 70
submit until they had done their utmost TO save
Greece from Macedonian Philip. The battle was
hercely contested especially by the Thebans
who formed the right wing thrown out into the
plain resting on the KephiHos aud facing west
while the Athenans al the other end OF the lne
rested on the hills. one OF which appears Just be
hind the lion The Macedonians we're command
ed by the veteran Anupatet with the youthful
Alexander by his side.
When after a stubborn fight, the Thebans were
beaten, the Athenians we're isolated and rolled
up a loss OF over a thousand slain Demoethenes.
the soul Of the enterprise fought In the ranks
In the enclosure where the lion now stands. 2bf
skeletons found and carried 10 the Athenian
museum. The lion II a funeral monument not
only 10 the Theban dead but 10 dead Greece.
Greece remained power by its art and litera-
ture. but the Macedonian and then the Roman
were It's rulers
WHERE JOAN or ARC WAS BURNED.
A slab In the sidewalk OF the Place du vieuK
Marche. Rouen. France marks the spot where
Joan OF Arc was burned at the stake.
For a century and a half after the conquest
n066) this northern district belonged 70 Eng
land. by virtue OF the sovereigns Inheritance
from william OF Normandy Rouen here was an
English town. Then the French captured and
held II until 1919. when II fell once more into
French hands While the inspired peasant gir.
Jeanne dare. was leading the French armies
against the English. this WAS a stronghold Of her
enemies. and every victory she won made their
hatred blacker. According 20 the old chronicles,
she had premonitionn that her mission for
France was accomplished when she raised the
siege OF Orleans and secured the coronation Of
Charles VII at Rheims but the king would not
let her 60 back TO private life
In 1880 al compiegne. she was taken prisoner
By the nurgundsan allies Of the English. and BY
them sold 20 those against whom she had de
tended her country. II was In an old castle half
a mile away behind us 1.-THE building itself IL not
nov in eristence). that she Was tried for heresy
and condemned 10 death q witch. on the spot
where the slab II set IN the pavement tia5i) she
was burned AZ the stake.
THE LION or WATERLOO.
The battle Of Waterloo was one Of the most
important military engagements 81 All history
!, was fought on June "A. ikiS. between the allied
forces Of Great Britain the Netherlands and Prns'
sis under General Wellington. and the army OF
France under Napoleon. This battle was The
eslminati0n 81 the campaign following the escape
OF Napoleon from his exile ~ Eiba- Napoleon
was defeated. be left the held IN the center o.
a square with a sombeT but calm eosntenanes,
Ms farsesiuK FIsnce probing fuiurity. and seeing
,Asf more than battle had bseu iosi that day "
ON the sia Of Jsrs three days after his d.
feat Nspoieo5 reached Paris. and the following
day presented his Aboioation-
The huge ststBs shown IN the Illustration
stands on . 180fooi mound IN the center of the
battlefield about ten or twelve miiea from the
city Of brussels.