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: The following is extracted from Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds, by F.J. Cross (published 1895) In St. Paul’s Cathedral there stands a monument representing
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Indian Fights and Fighters, by Cyrus Townsend Brady (published 1904) I. The Original “Rough Riders” No one will question the sweeping assertion that the grittiest
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Victorian Worthies, by G.H. Blore (published 1920). All spelling in the original. The famous Napier brothers, Charles, George, and William, came of no mean parentage.
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Soul of the Soldier: Sketches from the Western Battle-Front, by Thomas Tiplady (published 1918). Tiplady was a chaplain serving with the British Expeditionary Force
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Hunting the Grizzly and Other Sketches, by Theodore Roosevelt (published 1902). In the United States the peccary is only found in the southernmost corner of
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo, by Sir Edward Creasy (published 1851). A broad expanse of plains, the Campi Catalaunici
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from American Leaders and Heroes, by Wilbur F. Gordy (published 1907) ….He was born in the southeastern part of England in 1727. From his father, who
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Indian History for Young Folks, by Francis Samuel Drake (published 1919) The Indian’s style of fighting was suited to the forests in which he roamed.
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