Fox Hunting - History

History

The use of scenthounds to track prey dates back to Assyrian, Babylonian, and ancient Egyptian times, and was known as venery.

Read more about this topic:  Fox Hunting

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    “America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
    —Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)

    “As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)