Magazine  (Apr 1859)  Page(s) 379.  
 
....Annexed is the list of the best six varieties of each class of everblooming roses:...Remontant or Hybrid Perpetual Roses. Crystal Palace....Eugene Sue....Géant des Batailles; bright scarlet, superb. Jules Margottin....La Reine....Madame Laffay.....The above thirty varieties will be carefully packed and forwarded, by express or any other conveyance that may be specified, for ten dollars. H. A. Dreer, Seedsman and Florist, 327 Chestnut Street.

Book  (1858)  Page(s) 181.  
 
Rosa hibrida bifera.
Géant des Batailles (Guillot, 1846), Blumen groß, voll, sammetig dunkelpurpur, von höchst vollkommenem imbricirtem Bau.

Translation: Hybrid Perpetual.
Géant des Batailles (Guillot, 1846) the large, full, velvety dark purple flowers are perfectly imbricated.

Magazine  (Feb 1856)  Page(s) 60.  
 
"Roses for the South" by Robert Nelson, of Macon, Georgia.
Hybrid Perpetuals.
Giant of Battles.—This is a splendid variety, opening deep scarlet, velvety, changing to purple; deliciously fragrant and quite distinct.

Book  (1855)  Page(s) 68.  
 
Provincie, Fransche of Roode Roos.
Nieuwe Verscheidenheden.
Géant des batailles. 

Provins or Gallica Rose.
New Varieties.
Géant des batailles.

Magazine  (1852)  Page(s) vol. 4, n.33, p. 235.  
 
M. Barrière, ancien chef-fleuriste au Muséum, une notice sur les Caractères des Roses remontantes, qui a fait le tour de plus d'un recueil horticole, et que nous trouvons en dernier lieu dans la Flore des serres. ...
3^o section. Hybrides Ile-Bourbon. Les rosiers qui entrent dans cette section paraissent tenir le milieu entre les hybrides remontantes de Portland et les rosiers Ile-Bourbon; cependant ils conservent plus souvent l'aspect de ces derniers; les folioles sont en générât très fortement dentées, mais la forme arrondie du calice les distingue surtout des hybrides de
Portland. L'ovaire affecte généralement td forme allongée la disposition des rameaux, confus et irrégulièrement étendus, leur donne aussi un aspect particulier. Exemples: Clémentine Duval, Ernestine de Barante, Géant des batailles.

Magazine  (Dec 1851)  Page(s) 270.  
 
New Roses.
I observed a short time since the floricultural editor of the Gardener's Chronicle inquiring why our favourite Rose should be named Le Geant des Batailles; he suggested it ought to have been Champ des Batailles: surely he ought not to have been at a loss. Was not Napoleon the Géant? and is he not alluded to by Frenchmen at all times and in every thing when at all possible? Thus we have the Standard of Marengo- by the way, this fine rich-coloured Rose has bloomed admirably the past autumn; it requires a very good soil- and we shall have, the forthcoming season, in our flower-stands, "Le Lion des Combats" and "L'Etendard du Grand Homme"; thus we have four Roses named after his memory. Napoleon, always Napoleon: "Vive l'Empire"—des Roses!  —T. R.

Magazine  (1851)  Page(s) 435.  
 
Société d'Horticulture de Paris ert Centrale de france. Vingt-Deuxième Exposition fe Fleurs, Fruits et Légumes...les 11, 12, 13 et 14 Septembre 1851, à l'Orangerie du Louvre....Catalogue...
M. Fontaine (François), horticulteur, rue de la Fontaine, 12, à Chatillon (Seine).- Roses coupées....
Portlands hybrides...Géant des batailles

Book  (1851)  Page(s) 15-16.  
 
p. 15: Ducher .... Hybrides .... Géant des Batailles
p. 16: Guichard .... Géant des Batailles
M. Guillot, J.-B., père et fils ...Hybrides remontantes ..... Géant des Batailles

Website/Catalog  (1851)  
 
Evergreen and Perpetual [Roses]
8.  Geant des batailles

Magazine  (Oct 1850)  Page(s) 255-256.  
 
Willison's Rose-Nursery, Whitby...A great number of the China, Noisette and other fine Roses do not bloom well in this locality except under glass; the bloom-buds rarely expand. I will therefore enumerate a few good Roses that appeared to bloom here in perfection....
Hybrid Perpetuals: these were not so finely in bloom as I have seen them; - the most striking were, Baron Prevost, pale rose; Géant des Batailles, brilliant crimson,- this is an excellent rose for the North, it is a free bloomer, and opens well; Robin Hood, cherry-red, and Comtesse Duchatel.