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A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
epub |eng | 2012-05-06 | Author:David P. Barrows [Barrows, David P.]

In his own narrative he tells how he beat up and down between Capes San Lucas and Mendocino until the galleon, heavy with her riches, appeared. She fell into his ...
( Category: Philippines February 17,2023 )
The History of the Revolution The Communist Manifesto by John Reed Karl Marx Samuel Moore
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:John Reed, Karl Marx, Samuel Moore [John Reed, Karl Marx, Samuel Moore]

“Gatchina, November 14, 1917. To-day, about three o’clock (A. M.), I was summoned by the Supreme Commander (Kerensky). He was very agitated, and very nervous. “‘General,’ he said to me, ...
( Category: Revolutionary February 17,2023 )
History of the Peninsular War, Volume 4 (of 6) by Robert Southey
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:Robert Southey [Southey, Robert]

1810. February. The Regents. In their choice of the regents the Junta seem to have looked for the fittest persons, without regard to any other considerations. Three of them were ...
( Category: Military February 17,2023 )
History of the two Tartar Conquerors of China, including the two Journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest in the Suite of the Emperor Kang-hi by R.H. Major The Earl of Ellesmere
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:R.H. Major, The Earl of Ellesmere [R.H. Major, The Earl of Ellesmere]

1 The text of this and another letter by father Verbiest, describing his two journeys in the suite of the Emperor into Tartary, is considerably modified by the Père d’ ...
( Category: History February 17,2023 )
History of the United Netherlands, 1592 by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2015-12-24 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

CHAPTER XXVII. Table of Contents Negotiations between Queen Elizabeth and the States—Aspect of affair between England and the Netherlands—Complaints of the Hollanders on the piratical acts of the English—The Dutch ...
( Category: Netherlands February 17,2023 )
History of the United Netherlands, 1597-98 by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

On the 21st and 22nd October, Ootmarsum and Oldenzaal were taken, and on the 28th the little army came before Lingen. This important city surrendered after a fortnight's siege. Thus ...
( Category: Netherlands February 17,2023 )
History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2019-12-03 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

Twenty such volunteers as these sat on horseback that morning around the stately Earl of Leicester. It seemed an incredible extravagance to send a handful of such heroes against an ...
( Category: Western February 17,2023 )
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584 by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2006-09-13 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

( Category: Western February 17,2023 )
The History of the Rochdale Pioneers by George Jacob Holyoake
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:George Jacob Holyoake [Holyoake, George Jacob]

Chapter XVI. Querulous Outsiders. IT is no mean part of the art of progress to know how to treat outsiders—that is supposing you have a good cause, clear principles, and ...
( Category: History February 17,2023 )
History of the Scottish expedition to Norway in 1612 by Thomas Michell
epub |eng | 2021-02-24 | Author:Thomas Michell [Michell, Thomas]

A prisoner who had been quartered at Veikle farm in Qvam parish, and who had been well treated, sent later, says tradition, "when he got home," six silver spoons to ...
( Category: Norway February 17,2023 )
History of the United Netherlands, 1595 by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

The narrative returns to Fuentes, who was left before the walls of Cambray. That venerable ecclesiastical city; pleasantly seated amid gardens, orchards, and green pastures, watered, by the winding Scheld, ...
( Category: Netherlands February 17,2023 )
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1584-85a by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

The Netherland envoys had their last audience on the 18th March, and their departure and disappointment was the signal for the general exhibition and explosion. The great civil war began, ...
( Category: Western February 17,2023 )
History of the United Netherlands, 1587a by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

But the brave soldier, whose feet were fast sliding into the paths of destruction, replied, in a tone of indignant innocence, more likely to aggravate than to allay suspicion. "Finding," ...
( Category: Netherlands February 17,2023 )
History of the United Netherlands, 1594 by John Lothrop Motley
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

Towards the end of the year 1594, Buzanval, the regular French envoy at the Hague, began to insist more warmly than seemed becoming that the campaign in Artois and Hainault—so ...
( Category: Netherlands February 17,2023 )
History of the War in Afghanistan by Sir John William Kaye
epub |eng | 2016-12-22 | Author:Sir John William Kaye [Kaye, Sir John William]

The movement of the British troops, even in the dim twilight of the early morning, had been observed from the city; and soon large bodies of the enemy were moving ...
( Category: Afghanistan February 17,2023 )

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