Q. What were the battles of Sir William Wallace? A. The fight of Stirling, in which he was victorious;

The fight of Falkirk, in which he was defeated. Q. What battle replaced Bruce on the throne of Scotland?

A. The battle of Bannockburn, near Stirling, in which Edward II. was defeated.

Q. What battle made Scotland again subject to England?

A. The battle of Halidown Hill, gained by Edward III.

Q. What were the victories of the English in France?

A. At Cressy, won by Edward III.

At Poictiers, won by Edward the Black Prince;
At Agincourt, won by Henry V.

Q. What battle established the House of Lancaster on the throne of England?

A. The victory over the rebels at Shrewsbury.

Q. What were the principal battles in the war of the two Roses?

A. 1. The battle of St. Albans, in which King Henry VI. was taken prisoner by the Duke of York;

2. The battle of Northampton, where he was again made prisoner by the Earl of Warwick, the king maker;

3. The battle of Wakefield, where Duke Richard was slain;

4. The battle of Hexham, from which Queen Margaret fled with her infant;

5. The battle of Barnet, near St. Albans, where Warwick was killed;

6. The battle of Tewkesbury, the last fatal blow to the Lancastrian interest.

Q. In what battle was the tyrant Richard III. defeated and slain?

A. Of Bosworth, in Leicestershire.

Q. What battles fatal to Scotland took place in the reigns of the Tudors?

A. The field of Flodden, in Northumberland;

The battle of Pinkey, on the banks of the Eske;
The battle of Langside, near Glasgow.

Q. Mention the principal battles in the war between
Charles I. and his Parliament.

At Edge-hill, in Warwickshire, where 3,000
English fell by one another's hands;

At Chalgrave Field, near Oxford, where Hamp-
den was slain;

At Marston Moor, near York, where Cromwell struck the first fatal blow to the royal cause;

and

At Naseby, in Northamptonshire, where he effected its final overthrow.

Q. What two battles led to the exile of Charles II. and the establishment of the Commonwealth under Cromwell?

A. The battle of Dunbar, and

The battle of Worcester.

Q. What were the battles of the Duke of Mon

mouth?

A. At Bothwell Bridge, near Edinburgh, where he routed the Scots, who had murdered Archbishop Sharpe;

At Sedgemoor, in Somersetshire, where he was defeated, taken prisoner, and afterwards beheaded.

Q. What battles confirmed the success of the Revolution, and proved fatal to the fortunes of James II.?

A. The battle of the Boyne, in Ireland; and
The sea-fight off Cape La Hogue.

Q. Mention the principal battles of the Duke of
Marlborough in the war against Louis XIV.
At Blenheim, a village on the Danube, at Ra-

milies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet, in Flanders. Q. What battles defeated the enterprise of the old Pretender?

A. The battle of Preston, in Lancashire; and of Sheriff Muir, in Perthshire.

Q. What battles distinguished the attempt of the young Pretender in 1745?

A. The battle of Preston-pans, near Edinburgh, in which he was victorious;

The battle of Culloden, near Inverness, in which he was utterly ruined.

Q. Which of the German battles was most honour

able to the British troops in the reign of George II.?

A. The battle of Minden, in Westphalia.

Q. What battle effected the conquest of Canada? A. The battle of Quebec, in which General Wolfe was slain.

Q. Which was the most memorable battle in the American war?

A. Of Bunker's Hill, near Boston.

Q. What was the first sea-fight in which the English used their famous manoeuvre of breaking the enemy's line?

A. Admiral Rodney's victory in the West Indies, Q. What misfortune befel the British arms in the war of the French Revolution in 1793?

A. The defeat at Dunkirk.

Q. What three great naval victories distinguished that war?

A. Those of Lord Howe, Lord Duncan, and Lord St. Vincent.

Q. What were the three great achievements of Lord Nelson?

A. The battle of the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar, in which he was killed.

Q. What event checked the progress of the French arms in Egypt?

A. The battle of Alexandria, where Abercrombie died in the moment of victory.

Q. In Calabria?

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A. The battle of Maida, under Sir John Stuart. Q. What were the principal battles which distinguished the Peninsular war?

A. The battle of Corunna, where Sir John Moore lost his life;

The victories of Lord Wellington, on the Douro, in Portugal;

At Talavera, Salamanca, and Vittoria, in Spain; At Orthez and Toulouse, in the south of France. Q. What event put a final end to the usurpation of Napoleon Buonaparte ?

A. The victory of Waterloo, near Brussels, in 1815.

OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.

Q. What is Latitude?

A. The distance of a place North or South of the Equator.

Q. What is Longitude?

A. The distance of a place East or West from the Meridian of London.

Q. What is the highest Latitude?

A. Ninety degrees; because the Arc of the circle,

from the Equator to the Pole, is no more than

a Quadrant, or quarter part of 360 degrees.

Q. What is the greatest Longitude?

A. 180 degrees, or the half of the whole circle.