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... EGYPT 183 34. THE STORY OF BRITISH WEST AFRICA 189 35. THE STORY OF UGANDA 195 36. THE FOUNDING OF RHODESIA 202 37. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA 207 38. THE DOMINION OF CANADA 214 39. AUSTRALIA - THE NEW NATION 219 40. FREEDOM FOR CUBA 226 41 ...
... EGYPT 183 34. THE STORY OF BRITISH WEST AFRICA 189 35. THE STORY OF UGANDA 195 36. THE FOUNDING OF RHODESIA 202 37. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA 207 38. THE DOMINION OF CANADA 214 39. AUSTRALIA - THE NEW NATION 219 40. FREEDOM FOR CUBA 226 41 ...
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... Egyptian army under Ibraham . The Egyptians . came on , boasting that they would make short work of Mesolonghi , but when they met the Greeks hand- to - hand , they were thoroughly defeated . Still the spirit of Greek heroism , rare in ...
... Egyptian army under Ibraham . The Egyptians . came on , boasting that they would make short work of Mesolonghi , but when they met the Greeks hand- to - hand , they were thoroughly defeated . Still the spirit of Greek heroism , rare in ...
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... Egypt - a great armament of sixty - five sail - lay in the Bay of Navarino . They formed a huge crescent in ... Egyptian flag - ship , and ten minutes later she too was a wreck . When evening fell , most of the 16 OTHO , KING OF ...
... Egypt - a great armament of sixty - five sail - lay in the Bay of Navarino . They formed a huge crescent in ... Egyptian flag - ship , and ten minutes later she too was a wreck . When evening fell , most of the 16 OTHO , KING OF ...
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M. B. Synge. 16 OTHO , KING OF GREECE . [ 1833 . Turkish and Egyptian ships were in flames . All through the night , the hills round Navarino shone with the light of burning ships . When morning dawned , what remained of the crescent of ...
M. B. Synge. 16 OTHO , KING OF GREECE . [ 1833 . Turkish and Egyptian ships were in flames . All through the night , the hills round Navarino shone with the light of burning ships . When morning dawned , what remained of the crescent of ...
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... Egypt , from the op- pression of Pharaoh . They knew no history or geography , save that contained in their Bibles , and some , amongst them , had dreamy ideas , that they might reach Jerusalem or the Promised Land . The region toward ...
... Egypt , from the op- pression of Pharaoh . They knew no history or geography , save that contained in their Bibles , and some , amongst them , had dreamy ideas , that they might reach Jerusalem or the Promised Land . The region toward ...
Contents
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THE STORY OF NATAL | 27 |
THE STORY OF CANADA | 33 |
THE FURTRADERS LAND | 38 |
CONTENTS 24 LIVINGSTONES DISCOVERIES IN CENTRAL AFRICA | 131 |
CHINAS LONG SLEEP | 137 |
THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN | 144 |
JAPANBRITAINS ALLY | 150 |
RUSSIA | 154 |
THE ΑΝΝΕΧATION OF BURMA | 159 |
THE STORY OF AFGHANISTAN | 166 |
THE EMPIRE OF INDIA | 170 |
THE WINNING OF THE WEST | 42 |
A GREAT ARCTIC EXPEDITION | 47 |
DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA | 53 |
THE LAST KING OF FRANCE | 60 |
LOUIS KOSSUTH AND HUNGARY | 66 |
THE CRIMEAN WAR | 72 |
THE INDIAN MUTINY | 79 |
THE AWAKENING OF ITALY | 85 |
KING OF UNITED ITALY | 90 |
CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA | 96 |
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION | 103 |
FOUNDING THE GERMAN EMPIRE | 107 |
THE FRANCOGERMAN WAR | 112 |
THE DREAM OF CECIL RHODES | 120 |
THE DUTCH REPUBLICS IN SOUTH AFRICA | 125 |
GORDONTHE HERO OF KHARTUM | 176 |
THE REDEMPTION OF EGYPT | 183 |
THE STORY OF BRITISH WEST AFRICA | 189 |
THE STORY OF UGANDA | 195 |
THE FOUNDING OF RHODESIA | 202 |
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA | 207 |
THE DOMINION OF CANADA | 214 |
AUSTRALIATHE NEW NATION | 219 |
FREEDOM FOR CUBA | 226 |
REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA | 231 |
WELDING THE EMPIRE | 236 |
CITIZENSHIP | 241 |
TEACHERS APPENDIX | 246 |
INDEX | 249 |
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Page 76 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die ; Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
Page 43 - TO THE WEST ! TO THE WEST ! TO the West.! to the West ! to the land of the free, Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil.
Page 104 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 18 - It did; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Page 22 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 208 - Never the lotos closes, never the wild-fowl wake, But a soul goes out on the East Wind that died for England's sake — Man or woman or suckling, mother or bride or maid — Because on the bones of the English the English Flag is stayed.
Page 155 - The peasant brain shall yet be wise, The untamed pulse grow calm and still; The blind shall see, the lowly rise, And work in peace Time's wondrous will. Some day, without a trumpet's call, This news will o'er the world be blown : "The heritage comes back to all ! The myriad monarchs take their own !
Page 101 - we will speak for freedom and against slavery, as long as the Constitution of our country guarantees free speech, until everywhere on this wide land the sun shall shine, and the rain shall fall, and the wind shall blow upon no man who goes forth to unrequited toil.
Page 171 - Are there thunders moaning in the distance ? Are there spectres moving in the darkness ? Trust the Hand of Light will lead her people, Till the thunders pass, the spectres vanish, And the Light is Victor, and the darkness Dawns into the Jubilee of the Ages.
Page 55 - As we neared the sand-bank, I stood up and made signs to the natives to desist; but without success. I took up my gun, therefore, and cocking it, had already brought it down to a level. A few seconds more would have closed the life of the nearest of the savages.