"Battleground" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... captain, who had served in the Seventh U.S. Cavalry, said he wished a party could be organized to visit General Custer's monument east of the National Park on the Little Big Horn River. There the Government had marked the historic battleground, where on the morning of the 24th of June, 1876, two hundred of the famous Seventh Cavalry and their brave leader, were overwhelmed and slaughtered by 2,500 Indians under the famous chief, Sitting Bull. Custer was tall and slender, with blue eyes and long light hair. He ...
— The Harris-Ingram Experiment • Charles E. Bolton
... what was in the cart, for he formed his men behind us and followed us across the river. Scarcely had we reached the other bank, when the Indians burst from the trees across the water, but they stopped there and made no further effort at pursuit, returning to the battleground to reap their unparalleled harvest of scalps and booty. About half a mile from the river, we brought the horses to a stop to see what ...
— A Soldier of Virginia • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... hostilities the thoughts of the colonists naturally turned to the Canadian border, the old battleground of the French and Indian War. Then and now a hostility was felt for Canada which had not slumbered since the burning of Schenectady ...
— History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews
... de San Quintn: And there will be a battle of St. Quentin. St. Quentin, a town of 55,500 inhabitants on the Somme River in northern France, has been a battleground in three wars. The battle here alluded to was fought August 10, 1557, and ended in the crushing defeat of the French by the Spanish army under the Duke ...
— Ms vale maa que fuerza • Manuel Tamayo y Baus
... of feeling in Alsace-Lorraine are unanimous in asserting that if before last July an impartial plebiscite, without fear of the consequences, could have been taken among the inhabitants, an overwhelming majority would have voted for reunion with France. But having once been the battleground of the two nations and living in permanent dread of a repetition of the tragedy, the leaders of political thought in Alsace and Lorraine favoured a less drastic solution. They knew that Germany would not relinquish her hold nor France renounce her aspirations without ...
— The War and Democracy • R.W. Seton-Watson, J. Dover Wilson, Alfred E. Zimmern,
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