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Concerning Large America

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Day
26
Month
September
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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The (oJIowmg tact?, eulled ft om tLo P.elds of nncicrit ftory, ma}' be of soinu interest at tb? present time : The city of Thobcs bd a linndred ernto", nntl coultl r,end out at each gata ! 0.000 ffchting men and 200 chariots iii all, 1,000,000 men and 2,000 cnariots. The aruiy of TYernh, Kirigof Ethiopía, cön'sisted of 1,000,000 raen and 300 chnriotg of war. Sesostns, r,f Egyp, '■] againsl h;s enemlèa fiOU,000 men, 24 000 caval ry and twen t y sevon iovtUe-arujcd churiots. 1491 B. C. TT:in;!c!ir went frorn Carthage and landed near Palcrmd. He bad a fleet of 2,000 Ellips and 3.0O0 simdl vcssols, aai a land forco of 300,000 men. At tho battle in which lie wa3 defoaled, 150,000 wem glain. A 'Eomnn flect, led by Rogulus .ngainst Cartbage, consttted of 830 vesaclt, with N 0,000 men. ïlie Carthngenian fleet numbered 860 vosscl, wih 150.0UO men. At the battlo of Conna, tbero wcre of tiio Romans, including allics, 70,000 foot iind 6,000 horse; of the Carthafzenians, 10,000 foot find 10.000 hor.se. Of tlieao 70,000 were skin iu all, and 10,00Q takon pfisoners; more than balf slain. Hannibal, during lus camp;iign in Italy and Spain, plundcrcd 400 towns aud destroycd 390,000 men. Ninu, the Assyrian king, about 2,290 ycara 15. C., led iigainst tho Bnctriana hl nrniv, consisiing of 1,700,000 foot, 200,000 "horso and Ï6,000 cbariota armed . with sythea. Italy, a little befovc Haonibal'a tia, was hV tn fund into tlic fiold nearly 1,000,000 men. Seintramid employcd 2,000,000 men in building tho mighty Babyion. She took 100,000 prisoners at the Jndus, nud sunk 1,000 boais, Seonacbefib lost in a siigle night 180,000 men by the dealrovuig angel. - 2 Kings, 19, 35-37. A short time aiter the taking of Babv on, tlie forces of Cvrus consistcd of 000,000 foot. 120.000 ï.oise ar,4 '000 chuiots anncd ith scythr?. An ariuy of Cainbyses, 50,000 stroriff, was burred iip in the desort wuda of África by a soutb wind. Wlieii arrived at Thermopyta;, lus huid and sea foivos nmonnted to 2,G41,C1O, exe'usive of' seryant.1. euuucfis, woraen, sntlers, 640., in all nambeiing 5,83,220. 80 sajs Herodotus, Plutarcii and Isecrafes. Tho ariny of Ar'axei-xes, befure tho battle of Cmaxa, amouutcd to about 1,200.000. Teu thcmsind horse aad 100,000 foot feil on the i'atal fie'd of Issus. When JeiT.salem waa taken by T(tUs, 1,100,000 porishcd in various waya. Tire forcé of Parijs at Arbela numbered more than 1,000,000. The Persians lost 90,000 men in this battle Alexnnder aboat 500 tnen. So saya i)ioJorus. Arian says tlio Porsians, iu this battle, lost 300 0Ü0; the (reeks, 1,200. Tbe ariny of Tamerlane is said to havo nmonnted to 1,600,000. and tbat of hia antagonist, B jazet, 1,400,000.

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