Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence
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Editor’s note: Here follows the second chapter of The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, by Winston S. Churchill (published 1898). All spelling in the original. (Continued
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Editor’s note: Here follows the Preface and first chapter of The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, by Winston S. Churchill (published 1898). All spelling in the
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from My African Journey, by Winston Spencer Churchill (published 1909). All spelling in the original. It took no little time to stow all our baggage, food
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Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Letters of Travel (1892-1913), by Rudyard Kipling. All spelling in the original. All that day the two paced the deck with the absorbed insolence of
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Editor’s note: The following firsthand account of the Battle of Warbonnet Creek (July 17, 1876) is extracted from Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Life, by Captain Charles King (published 1890).
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from A Book of Discovery, by M.B. Synge (published 1912) It is said that Ferdinand Magellan, the hero of all geographical discovery, with his circumnavigation of
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea, by Charles H.L. Johnston (published 1911). The torches fluttered from the walls of a burial vault in ancient
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Real Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (published 1906) Continued from Part 1 Burnham did not rest long in California. In Alaska the hunt
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Real Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (published 1906) Among the soldiers of fortune whose stories have been told in this book were men
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds, by F.J. Cross (published 1895) John Coleridge Patteson was born in April, 1827. He
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