The Struggle for Sea Power, Book IV of the Story of the WorldCosimo, Inc., 1 січ. 2013 р. - 248 стор. "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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... governor of Pondicherry was a French- man called Dupleix . He was the first European to see the possibility of founding an empire on the ruins of the Great Mogul , though it was reserved for the English to carry out his wonderful idea ...
... governor of Pondicherry was a French- man called Dupleix . He was the first European to see the possibility of founding an empire on the ruins of the Great Mogul , though it was reserved for the English to carry out his wonderful idea ...
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... governor of Louis XV . , King of France . A new governor had recently been sent out a man who viewed his country's prospects in America with the keenest anxiety . He knew full well the rivalry that existed between France and England in ...
... governor of Louis XV . , King of France . A new governor had recently been sent out a man who viewed his country's prospects in America with the keenest anxiety . He knew full well the rivalry that existed between France and England in ...
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... governor : each was independent , the only tie holding them together being their allegiance to the mother country . Each colony had started life on its own account . There were the colonies founded by the Pilgrim Fathers , 1 by the ...
... governor : each was independent , the only tie holding them together being their allegiance to the mother country . Each colony had started life on its own account . There were the colonies founded by the Pilgrim Fathers , 1 by the ...
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... governor of the English colony of Virginia became aware of what was happening . He selected a young Virginian , George Washing- ton , to go and protest against such encroachment . He was to march to the last new French fort , with a ...
... governor of the English colony of Virginia became aware of what was happening . He selected a young Virginian , George Washing- ton , to go and protest against such encroachment . He was to march to the last new French fort , with a ...
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... Governor of Virginia to carry his message a thousand miles across country to the French . The story of how he delivered that message , and its answer , has already been told . From this time , George Washington was a marked man and a ...
... Governor of Virginia to carry his message a thousand miles across country to the French . The story of how he delivered that message , and its answer , has already been told . From this time , George Washington was a marked man and a ...
Зміст
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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The Struggle for Sea Power, Book IV of the Story of the World M. B. Synge Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2013 |
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Сторінка 170 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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!
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 23 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 139 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.