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Cover of The Story of Mohammed
by Edith Holland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016

Some way up the steep side of Mount Hira is a cave to which Mohammed often retired for solitary meditation, and sometimes Khadijah, his wife, would accompany him to this quiet retreat. For Mohammed was passing through a time of doubt and perplexity; He longed for the Truth, which he felt was not to...
Cover of History of the British Empire
by Charles Payne
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

Twice since the Norman Conquest has the little country of England been the center of an empire: once when Henry II of England was at the same time master of half France; and now again when the Union Jack or the red ensign flies over cities and continents of which Henry Plantagenet never dreamed. Yet...
Cover of Zenobia; or the Fall of Palmyra
by William Ware
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

William Ware (1797-1852) was an American romancer. He graduated at Harvard (1816), studied for the Unitarian ministry, and preached in New York and later in Massachusetts. He achieved literary recognition chiefly from his authorship of two historical romances Zenobia; or, The Fall of Palmyra (1837) and Aurelian; or, Rome in the Third Century (1838). 
Cover of The Great Events of World History - Volume 11
by Rossiter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

The Great Events of World History, Volume 11! Featuring: HENRY HUDSON EXPLORES THE HUDSON RIVER, by Henry Cleveland GALILEO OVERTHROWS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, by Oliver Lodge BEGINNING OF BRITISH POWER IN INDIA, by Beckles Willson DUTCH SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK, by David Valentine HARVEY DISCOVERS THE CIRCULATION...
Cover of Stories from French History
by Lena Dalkeith
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018

Once upon a time (and all this that you are about to read is true) there was a large wild country in Europe called the country of Gaul. It lay between sea and sea, between mountain and mountain; and if you would know the names of the seas, they are the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and that...
Cover of The Life of Joan of Arc
by Anatole France
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016

THERE is no authentic picture of Jeanne. From her we know that at Arras she saw in the hands of a Scotsman a picture in which she was represented on her knees presenting a letter to her King. From her we know also that she never caused to be made either image or painting of herself, and that she was...
Cover of The Wars of the Roses
by J.G. Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016

About the middle of the ninth century a warrior named Tertullus, having rendered signal services to the King of France, married Petronella, the king's cousin, and had a son who flourished as Count of Anjou. The descendants of Tertullus and Petronella rose rapidly, and exercised much influence on French...
Cover of The Reign of Mary Tudor
by James Froude
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016

The memory of no English sovereign has been so execrated as that of Mary Tudor. For generations after her death her name, with its horrid epithet clinging round it like the shirt of Nessus, was a bugbear in thousands of Protestant homes. It is true that nearly 300 persons were burnt at the stake in...
Cover of The Ancient Church
by W.D. Killen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016

In the interval between the days of the apostles and the conversion of Constantine, the Christian commonwealth changed its aspect. The Bishop of Rome—a personage unknown to the writers of the New Testament— meanwhile rose into prominence, and at length took precedence of all other churchmen. Rites...
Cover of The Story of France
by Mary MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018

Long, long ago the land which we now call France was called Gaul. Gaul was much larger than France is to-day, although north, south, and west France has the same boundaries now as Gaul had in the far-off days of which I am going to tell you. What these boundaries are, many a geography lesson will...
Cover of The Age of Total War
by Thomas Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016

THE peace of Vervins was not very well observed on the part of France. The ruling idea which guided the foreign policy of Henry IV was to curb the power of the House of Austria: a plan incompatible with the letter of the treaty. In pursuance of this policy Henry became the supporter of Protestantism;...
Cover of The Age of the Reformation
by Albert Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

ON the 18th of August, 1503, after a sudden and mysterious illness Alexander VI had departed this life to the unspeakable joy of all Rome, as Guicciardini assures us. Crowds thronged to see the dead body of the man whose boundless ambition, whose perfidy, cruelty, and licentiousness coupled with shameless...
Cover of The Age of Napoleon
by Thomas Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

THE celebrated phrase of Louis XIV, "I am the State", proclaimed the consummation of despotism. He asserted, and it was true, that the people, as a body politic, had been annulled by the Crown. Before a century had elapsed the maxim was reversed. The head of Louis's second successor fell...
Cover of The Great Events of World History - Volume 10
by Rossiter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016

The Great Events of World History, Volume 10! Featuring: ENGLAND LOSES HER LAST FRENCH TERRITORY – BATTLE OF ST. QUENTIN, by Charles Knight REIGN OF ELIZABETH, by Henry Cleveland JOHN KNOX HEADS THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS, by P. Brown & Thomas Carlyle MARY STUART: HER REIGN AND EXECUTION, by Algernon...
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