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epub |eng | 2017-08-04 | Author:Charles Oman [Oman, Charles]

Meanwhile, if the financial outlook was gloomy, the actual military situation was more promising than it had ever been before. Well aware, from intercepted dispatches, of the quarrels of his ...
( Category: History February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-20 | Author:William Hickling Prescott [Prescott, William Hickling]

* * * * * The principal light, by which we are to be guided through the remainder of this history, is the Aragonese annalist, Zurita, whose great work, although ...
( Category: History of Spain & Portugal February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

( Category: other February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

"They are at Rochelle, at Bordeaux, and at St. Malo," replied de Sancy. "And these ports are not in the king's possession," said the Lord Treasurer. The discussion was growing ...
( Category: other February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

"Be it so," replied Sir Francis; "nevertheless they will sooner permit the exercise of the reformed religion than take up arms and begin the war anew." He then alluded to ...
( Category: other February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:William Hickling Prescott [Prescott, William Hickling]

* * * An historian less renowned than Mendoza, but of more importance to one who would acquaint himself with the story of the Morisco rebellion, is Luis del Marmol ...
( Category: Nonfiction February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-15 | Author:Jonathan Clements [Clements, Jonathan]

Yaqub Beg and Kashgaria The Western Regions were renamed Huijiang, ‘the Muslim Frontier’, and then Xinjiang, ‘the New Frontier’ in the 1880s. This shift in nomenclature reflects attitudes in China, ...
( Category: Asia February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-24 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

CHAPTER XXIX. Table of Contents Effect of the death of Farnese upon Philip's schemes—Priestly flattery and counsel—Assembly of the States-General of France— Meeting of the Leaguers at the Louvre—Conference at ...
( Category: Netherlands February 17,2023 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-19 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

Of the thirteen thousand came home six thousand, the rest having perished of dysentery and other disorders. They had braved and insulted Spain, humbled her generals, defied her power, burned ...
( Category: other February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-13 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

===================================== NOTE on MARNIX DE SAINTE ALDEGONDE. As every illustration of the career and character of this eminent personage excites constant interest in the Netherlands, I have here thrown together, ...
( Category: other February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-13 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

( Category: other February 17,2023 )

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