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An Answer to a Scurrilous Pamphlet [1693]An Answer to a scurrilous pamphlet, lately printed, intituled, A letter from Monsieur de Cros, to the Lord ----The Author of the Memoirs had so little to apprehend in his Reputation either at home or abroad from the feeble Efforts of Monsieur de Cross...
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Letter from Monsieur de CrosLetter from Monsieur de Cros - (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident at England in K. Charles the Second's reign) to the Lord ----; being an answer to Sir Wm. Temple's memoirs concerning what passed from the year...
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The Minute Boys of York TownThe Minute Boys of York Town CHAPTER PAGE I. Two Young Virginians 11 II. Silver Heels 30 III. Uncle 'Rasmus's Advice 49 IV. The Town of York 70 V. Our Prisoner 89 VI. A Disagreeable Surprise 109 VII. Morgan, the Spy 128 VIII. The...
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Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the PotomacSome Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac At the earnest solicitation of my many military friends, I have thrown together some reminiscences of my personal experience as a cavalryman during the late War of the Rebellion. Though...
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Essays on the Materialistic Conception of HistoryEssays on the Materialistic Conception of HistoryOn the tenth of March, 1896, the same year that the last despairing revolt of the small producer against capitalism in America was to end in the overwhelming defeat of Bryan, an Italian scholar published in the city...
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The Spy: Condensed for use in schoolsThe Spy: Condensed for use in schoolsJames Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, N. J., in 1789the year in which George Washington was inaugurated first President of the United States. His boyhood was passed at Cooperstown, N. Y., a village founded by his father....
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The Child's Book of American BiographyThe Child's Book of American BiographyIn every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It...
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Area Handbook for BulgariaArea Handbook for BulgariaAlthough many changes have swept across the Eastern European communist countries, Bulgaria through the years has remained a bastion of consistency. It is a loyal military ally of the Soviet Union as a member of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact),...
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A History of Rome to 565 A. DA History of Rome to 565 A. D. The student beginning the study of Roman History through the medium of the works of modern writers cannot fail to note wide differences in the treatment accorded by them to the early centuries of the life...
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Napoléon et Alexandre Ier (3/3)Napoléon et Alexandre Ier (3/3) - L'alliance russe sous le premier EmpireSous le voile de l'alliance officiellement maintenue, Alexandre Ier prpare contre Napolon une campagne offensive.--Son grief apparent.--Son grief rel.--Appel secret aux Varsoviens par l'intermdiaire du prince Adam Czartoryski; Alexandre veut restaurer la Pologne...
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The Falling Flag: Evacuation of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at AppomattoxThe Falling Flag: Evacuation of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at AppomattoxThe writer only attempts to give some account of what occurred within his own observation; he would have esteemed it a privilege to enter into all the detail that lights up the last desperate...
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Some War-time LessonsSome War-time Lessons - The Soldier's Standards of Conduct; The War As a Practical Test of American Scholarship; What Have We Learned?Perhaps the greatest laboratory experiment in human conduct in the history of the world has been the development of our Army during the...
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The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 - Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia, War Papers 46Heretofore papers which have been read before this Commandery have related...
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History of the Reign of Philip II, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2The reign of Philip the Second has occupied the pen of the historian more frequentlyif we except that of Charles the Fifththan any other portion of the Spanish annals. It...
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A Woman's Wartime JournalA Woman's Wartime Journal - An account of the passage over a Georgia plantation of Sherman's army on the march to the sea, as recorded in the diary of Dolly Sumner LuntThough Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt...
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Elizabethan EnglandElizabethan England - From 'A Description of England,' by William HarrisonTo the Right Honourable, and his singular good Lord and Master, Sir William Brooke, Knight, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Baron of Cobham, all increase of the fear and knowledge of God,...
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History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of VirginiaHistory of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of VirginiaAlthough Virginia must be content with a secondary and unpretending rank in the general department of history, yet in the abundance and the interest of her historical materials, she may, without presumption, claim pre-eminence among the...
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Rambling Recollections of Chelsea and the Surrounding District as a Village in the Early Part of the Past CenturyRambling Recollections of Chelsea and the Surrounding District as a Village in the Early Part of the Past Century - By an Old Inhabitant In offering my early recollections of Chelsea and surrounding neighbourhood, I thought they might be interesting to many of my...
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Christovam Colombo e o descobrimento da AmericaChristovam Colombo e o descobrimento da AmericaAo INSTITUTO HISTORICO E GEOGRAPHICO BRAZILEIRO offerece a propriedade das conferencias effectuadas cerca de Christovam Colombo e do Descobrimento da America, como homenagem de considerao, e testemunha de apreo, que lhe tributa seu socio honorario. O INSTITUTO HISTORICO...
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The Maner of the Tryumphe of Caleys and Bulleyn and The Noble Tryumphant Coronacyon of Quene Anne, Wyfe unto the Most Noble Kynge Henry VIIIThe Maner of the Tryumphe of Caleys and Bulleyn and The Noble Tryumphant Coronacyon of Quene Anne, Wyfe unto the Most Noble Kynge Henry VIIIThe two extremely rare tracts here given have been reprinted by Prof. Arber in his English Garner, if we can...
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