d'Anvers"; Ripley's "History of the War with Mexico"; Bancroft's "History of the Pacific States of North America"; Malleson's "Decisive Battles of India," and "History of the Indian Mutiny"; Wright's "Northwestern Provinces of India"; M'Ghee's "How We Got to Pekin"; Oliphant's "Lord Elgin's Mission to China"; Bordstaedt and Dwyer's "Franco-German War"; Markham's "War between Peru and Chili"; Gaffaret's" Histoire d' Algérie"; King's "Europe in Storm and Calm"; Delord's "Histoire du Second Empire"; Sturmer's "Der Tod des Grafen Diebitsch"; Schuyler's "Turkestan"; MacGahan's "Fall of Khiva"; Marvin's "Russians at the Gates of Herat"; Boulger's "Central Asian Questions"; and Russell's " War in the Crimea." Harper's and the Century Magazines deserve acknowledgment, and so do the files of the New York Tribune, London Daily News, London Times, Illustrated London News, London Graphic, Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, and other newspapers. The official records of the American Civil War have been examined, together with numerous volumes of an unofficial character. In describing the battle of Gettysburg the author has thought best to rely mainly upon "The History of the Civil War in America," by the Comte de Paris. In so doing he has hoped to avoid the charge of partiality, which has been brought against nearly every other of the numerous writers on the subject.
The battles here described possess an interest for the student of military tactics and strategy. The book has, however, for its further purpose, the idea of presenting an outline survey of the history of the Nineteenth Century, considered from the point of view of its chief military events. It is the author's hope that the result of his labors may help to make clear the character and relative importance of these events, and to indicate their influence in shaping the history of our own times.
New York, April, 1887.
