BIOGRAPHIES

OF

EMINENT SOLDIERS

OR

EMINENT SOLDIERS

OF THE LAST FOUR CENTURIES

BY

MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN MITCHELL

AUTHOR OP

LIFE OF WALLENSTEIN,' 'THE FALL OF NAPOLEON,' ETC.

EDITED, WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR

BY

LEONHARD SCHMITZ, LL.D.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXV

210. f. </

The Right of Translation is reserved

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.

I. ZISCA THE HUSSITE, . . . . . . . . 1

II. SCANDERBEG, . . . . . . . . . 17

III. THE CHEVALIER BAYARD, . . . . . . . 35

IV. THE CONSTABLE OF BOURBON, AND THE SACKING OF ROME, 52

V. FERDINAND ALVAREZ OF TOLEDO, DUKE OF ALBA, . 99

VI. FIELD-MARSHAL SUWAROFF, AND THE CAMPAIGN OF 1790, 130

VII. MARSHAL MASSENA, . . . . . . . . 171

VIII. TABLEAUX OF THE MOST EMINENT SOLDIERS OF THE

IX. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FRENCH ARMY,.