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In Our Young Folks' Plutarch

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Rosalie Kaufman

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…

The Battle of Marathon, BC 490, by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, part 2

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01

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Charles F. Horne

A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Chapter 1 Part 3

In Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre

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Alexandre Dumas

Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…

Chapter XII - The Battle of Pultowa, 1709 - Part 1

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

A Glimpse of the Italian Army

In A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…

A Strange Bringing Up Part 1

In At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

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G. A. Henty

The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire t…

CHAPTER I.Of the Beginnings of Cities in general, and in particular of that of …

In Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli

In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…