text:  They have heard the distant echo of his fame as they have that of the exploits of Timour of Bajazet and of Genghis Khan; the names of Blenheim and Ramillies of Malplaquet and Oudenarde awaken a transient feeling of exultation in their bosoms; but as to the particulars of these events the difficulties with which their general had to struggle the objects for which he contended even the places where they occurred they are for the most part as ignorant as they are of similar details in the campaigns of Baber or Aurengzebe