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of Greece, 1913 B. c. All who honor a lost cause
will bring their offerings to this sacred spot
The heroes who fought, here did not propose 10
submit until they had done their utmost to save
Greece from Macedonian Philip. The battle was
fercely contested, especially by the IheDans'
who formed the right wing thrown out into the
plain, resting on the Kephisos and facing west
while the Athenians at the other end OF the line
rested on the hills, one of which appears just De-
hind the lion. The Macedonians were command
ed by the veteran Antipater with the youthtul
Alexander by his side.
When after a stubborn fight, the Thebans we're
beaten, the Athenians were isolated and rolled
up a loss of over a thousand slain. Demosthenes,
the soul of the enterprise, fought in the ranks.
In the enclosure where the lion now stands, 254
skeletons were found and carried to the Armenian
museum. The lion is a funeral monument not
only to the Theban dead, but to dead Greece.
Greece remained a power by its art and htera-
ture, but the Macedonian and then the Roman
were its rulers.
WHERE JOAN OF ARC WAS BURNED
A slab in the sidewalk Of the Place du Vieux
Marche, Rouen, France, marks the spot Where
Joan Of Arc was burned at the stake.
For a century and a half after the conquest
Q066) this northern district belonged to Eng
land by virtue of the soyereigns inheritance
from William of Normandy. Rouen here was an
English town. Then the French captured and
held It until 1919, when 1t fell once more into
French hands. While the inspired peasant girl,
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 to the old chronicles,
she had premonitions 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 go back to private life.
In 1870 at Compiegne, she was taken prisoner
by the Burgundian allies of the English, and by
them sold to those against whom she had de-
Tended her country. It was in an old castle half
a mile away behind us (the building itself Is not
now in existence), that she was tried for heresy
and condemned to death as a witch; on the spot
where the slab is set in the pavement (4Sl) she
was burned at the stake.
THE IL OF WATERLOO.
The battle Of Waterloo was one OF the most
important military engagements of all history.
1t was fought on June Is, 1915, between the allied
forces of Great Britain, the Netherlands and Prus-
STA, under General Wellington, and the army OF
France under Napoleon. This battle was the
elimination of the campaign following the escape
of Napoleon from his exile at Elba- Napoleon
was defeated; he left the field in the center of
a square with a somber but calm countenance,
his far-seeing glance probing %futurity. and seeing
that more than a battle had been lost that oay.
On the 21st OF June, three days after his de-
feat, Napoleon reached Paris, and the following
day presented his abdication.
stands on a 2OO-foot mound in the center of the
battlefield, about ten or twelve miles from the
city of Brussels.