The Struggle for Sea Power, Book IV of the Story of the WorldCosimo, Inc., 1. jan. 2013 - 248 sider "Covers the history of the world from the American Revolution to Waterloo--from 1745-1815--and includes tales of: the black hole of Calcutta; George Washington, solider and patriot; how Pitt saved England; The Declaration of Independence and much more."--Cover back. |
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Side 12
... force . They had brought with them huge elephants , with great pieces of iron fixed on their foreheads , to try and break down the gates . The English fired on them ; and the unhappy creatures , unused to firearms , turned round and ...
... force . They had brought with them huge elephants , with great pieces of iron fixed on their foreheads , to try and break down the gates . The English fired on them ; and the unhappy creatures , unused to firearms , turned round and ...
Side 14
... help to be sent , but he reached the banks of the Hoogly with a force wholly in- adequate for the work before him . He was in a painfully anxious dilemma . Before him lay a wide 1757. ] BATTLE OF PLASSEY . 15 river , across.
... help to be sent , but he reached the banks of the Hoogly with a force wholly in- adequate for the work before him . He was in a painfully anxious dilemma . Before him lay a wide 1757. ] BATTLE OF PLASSEY . 15 river , across.
Side 15
... force before them with their little band of men , or wait for help ? 66 Wait for help , " said the officers ; and Clive himself agreed with them . But still he was not satisfied . He retired alone under the shade of a tree near by , and ...
... force before them with their little band of men , or wait for help ? 66 Wait for help , " said the officers ; and Clive himself agreed with them . But still he was not satisfied . He retired alone under the shade of a tree near by , and ...
Side 29
... forces . One day the French chained some seventy ships together , filled them with explosives , and set the whole on fire . Down the river , towards the English fleet , came this roaring mass of fire , until the courageous British ...
... forces . One day the French chained some seventy ships together , filled them with explosives , and set the whole on fire . Down the river , towards the English fleet , came this roaring mass of fire , until the courageous British ...
Side 41
... force of arms . ' 29 41 never , For the first time in their history the colonies united in the face of a common danger . The colonists held a great Congress . Each colony was represented , and they resolved to resist the Stamp Act ...
... force of arms . ' 29 41 never , For the first time in their history the colonies united in the face of a common danger . The colonists held a great Congress . Each colony was represented , and they resolved to resist the Stamp Act ...
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JAMES BRUCE AND THE NILE | 55 |
MARIE ANTOINETTE | 65 |
THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES | 75 |
A REIGN OF TERROR | 81 |
HORATIO NELSON | 90 |
THE TRAVELS OF BARON HUMBOLDT | 101 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE STRUGGLE | 107 |
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Side 170 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Side 170 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Side 130 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Side 142 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France...
Side 166 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Side 25 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Side 23 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Side 170 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Side 139 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.