The Struggle for Sea Power, Book IV of the Story of the World

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THE STORY OF THE GREAT MOGUL
1
ROBERT CLIVE
7
THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA
11
THE STRUGGLE FOR NORTH AMERICA
16
GEORGE WASHINGTON SOLDIER AND PATRIOT
20
HOW PITT SAVED ENGLAND
24
NAPOLEON EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH
25
THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
26
HORATIO NELSON
90
THE ADVENTURES OF MUNGO PARK
94
THE TRAVELS OF BARON HUMBOLDT
101
THE BEGINNING OF THE STRUGGLE
107
THE BATTLE OF THE NILE
112
174
156
THE DEFENCE OF SARAGOZA
160
SIR JOHN MOORE AT CORUNA
165

THE FALL OF QUEBEC
27
A SECOND CHARLEMAGNE
28
THE RISE OF WELLINGTON
29
AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
30
THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN COLONY
31
THE GREAT LORD HAWKE
34
THE BOSTON TEASHIPS
39
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
44
CAPTAIN COOKS STORY
50
JAMES BRUCE AND THE NILE
55
THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS
60
MARIE ANTOINETTE
65
THE FALL OF THE BASTILE
69
THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES
75
A REIGN OF TERROR
81
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
85
THE VICTORY OF TALAVERA
170
THE PEASANT HERO OF THE TYROL
174
THE EMPIRE AT ITS HEIGHT
179
THE SHANNON AND THE CHESAPEAKE
183
NAPOLEONS RETREAT FROM MOSCOW
189
WELLINGTONS VICTORIES IN SPAIN
195
SPAIN FOR THE SPANIARDS
199
THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE
203
STORY OF THE STEAMENGINE
209
THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA
214
THE EVE OF WATERLOO
218
WATERLOO
223
THE EXILE OF ST HELENA
230
TEACHERS APPENDIX
235
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Página 120 - Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime. As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene, And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak!
Página 170 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 139 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.
Página 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.
Página 42 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 59 - It is easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that moment — standing in that spot which had baffled the genius, industry and inquiry of both ancients and moderns, for the course of near three thousand years.
Página 13 - The Sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity or of the influence of a commanding mind.

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