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... capital . Chilian independence was won , and O'Higgins was made the first governor of the new republic . Much had been done . Spanish rule had been checked , but not yet broken . Its grip was still on Peru , and her people were crying ...
... capital . Chilian independence was won , and O'Higgins was made the first governor of the new republic . Much had been done . Spanish rule had been checked , but not yet broken . Its grip was still on Peru , and her people were crying ...
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... capital , Caracas . For many weeks , not a single drop of rain had fallen , and a day had been set apart for all the people to pray in the churches , as with one voice , for the much - needed rain . The sky was cloudless , the heat ...
... capital , Caracas . For many weeks , not a single drop of rain had fallen , and a day had been set apart for all the people to pray in the churches , as with one voice , for the much - needed rain . The sky was cloudless , the heat ...
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... capital of New Granada , changing the whole aspect of affairs at one supreme stroke . It was even a more wonderful feat than that of San Martin . It was June 1819. To tell the story of his passage would be but to repeat that of San ...
... capital of New Granada , changing the whole aspect of affairs at one supreme stroke . It was even a more wonderful feat than that of San Martin . It was June 1819. To tell the story of his passage would be but to repeat that of San ...
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... capital was Quito . Both San Martin and Bolivar were now advanc- ing on Peru , " the last battlefield in America , " as Bolivar said . The moment had come , when the two liberators must meet , to discuss the future of the revolution ...
... capital was Quito . Both San Martin and Bolivar were now advanc- ing on Peru , " the last battlefield in America , " as Bolivar said . The moment had come , when the two liberators must meet , to discuss the future of the revolution ...
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... capital of the Eastern Empire . Under this Byzantine Empire , Greece had remained , till the capture of Constanti- nople by the Turks in 1453. Under Turkish rule the Greeks had suffered deeply , and that nation , once so famous in ...
... capital of the Eastern Empire . Under this Byzantine Empire , Greece had remained , till the capture of Constanti- nople by the Turks in 1453. Under Turkish rule the Greeks had suffered deeply , and that nation , once so famous in ...
Contents
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VICTORIAQUEEN OF ENGLAND | 16 |
THE GREAT BOER TREK | 21 |
LIVINGSTONES DISCOVERIES IN CENTRAL AFRICA | 24 |
THE STORY OF NATAL | 27 |
THE STORY OF CANADA | 33 |
THE DREAM OF CECIL RHODES | 120 |
THE DUTCH REPUBLICS IN SOUTH AFRICA | 125 |
PAGE 1 | 126 |
THE LAND OF THE RISING | 144 |
JAPAN | 150 |
THE ANNEXATION OF BURMA | 159 |
THE STORY OF AFGHANISTAN | 166 |
GORDONTHE HERO OF KHARTUM | 176 |
THE FURTRADERS LAND | 38 |
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 | 72 |
THE INDIAN MUTINY | 79 |
THE AWAKENING OF ITALY | 85 |
KING OF UNITED ITALY | 88 |
CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA | 96 |
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION | 103 |
FOUNDING THE GERMAN EMPIRE | 107 |
THE FRANCOGERMAN | 112 |
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