In 1562 the French Huguenot party, headed by Coligny, made another attempt[2] to secure themselves a refuge in the New World. Two ships set sail under the command of Jean Ribault, a brave and experienced seaman, destined to play a memorable and tragic part in the history of America. Ribault does not ...more »
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Author: de Barante, M.
Les écrivains qui ont composé des histoires générales de la France ont presque toujours encouru le reproche de ne pas avoir su rendre assez attachans les récits que nous ont conservés les documens originaux et contemporains. En même temps, on trouve avec raison beaucoup de charme dans ces documens eux ...more »
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Author: Hamilton, Alexander
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, was originally published anonymously in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial interpretations ...more »
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Author: Raisin, Jacob S.
To the lover of mankind the history of the Russo-Jewish renaissance is an encouraging and inspiring phenomenon. Seldom has a people made such rapid strides forward as the Russian Jews. From the melancholy regularity that marked their existence a little more than two generations ago, from the darkness ...more »
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Author: Lowell, Edward J.
There are two ways in which the French Revolution may be considered. We may look at the great events which astonished and horrified Europe and America: the storming of the Bastille, the march on Versailles, the massacres of September, the Terror, and the restoration of order by Napoleon. The study of ...more »
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Author: Abbott, John S.C.
The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the History of Napoleon Bonaparte, and The French Revolution of 1789, have necessarily made him quite familiar with the monarchies of Europe. He has met with so much that was strange and romantic in their career, that he has been ...more »
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Author: Lowe, Samuel
King Arthur, who held sway in Camelot with his Knights of the Round Table, was supposedly a king of Britain hundreds of years ago. Most of the stories about him are probably not historically true, but there was perhaps a real king named Arthur, or with a name very much like Arthur, who ruled somewhere ...more »
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Author: Farrand, Max
The United States of America! It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming among the Powers of the Earth the equal and independent ...more »
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Author: Hengy, Symone
Eine einzige Kerze auf jedem Grab, in dem das Opfer eines ungesühnten Verbrechens liegt, und der Friedhof wäre nachts taghell erleuchtet... Eindringlich hallen diese Worte, die Vater vor vielen Jahren ausgesprochen hatte, in Ruth wieder. Weiß sie doch, dass unter diesen Voraussetzungen auch das Grab ...more »
