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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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:David Baron [Baron, David]

( Category: Literature & Fiction February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-13 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

( Category: Western February 17,2023 )
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 )
epub |eng | 1884-01-15 | Author:Daniel Oakey [Oakey, Daniel]

June 12.—The surprise of Stuart on the Rappahannock has chilled every heart, notwithstanding it does not appear that we lost more than the enemy in the encounter. The question is ...
( Category: other February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-01 | Author:B. F. Blakeslee [Blakeslee, B. F.]

From the Examiner, April 22d: "The details of the affair at Plymouth are not yet fully ascertained. It is safe, however, to pronounce it one of the most brilliant affairs ...
( Category: other February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-13 | Author:David Baron [Baron, David]

( Category: Nonfiction February 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-13 | Author:John Lothrop Motley [Motley, John Lothrop]

( Category: other February 17,2023 )
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 )