Note 051
From Chapter 43 of the Decline & Fall

Pere Daniel (Hist. de la Milice Francoise, tom. i. p. 17 - 21) has exhibited a fanciful representation of this battle, somewhat in the manner of the Chevalier Folard, the once famous editor of Polybius, who fashioned to his own habits and opinions all the military operations of antiquity.

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