The Struggle for Sea Power, Book IV of the Story of the World"Covers the history of the world from the American Revolution to Waterloo--from 1745-1815--and includes tales of: the black hole of Calcutta; George Washington, solider and patriot; how Pitt saved England; The Declaration of Independence and much more."--Cover back. |
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... trading stations in the East . The Dutch headquarters was at Batavia ; the French at Pondicherry , on the east coast of India ; 1 See Book II . chapter 32 . 8 DUPLEIX . [ 1697-1763 . the English at Madras THE FALL OF QUEBEC.
... trading stations in the East . The Dutch headquarters was at Batavia ; the French at Pondicherry , on the east coast of India ; 1 See Book II . chapter 32 . 8 DUPLEIX . [ 1697-1763 . the English at Madras THE FALL OF QUEBEC.
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8 DUPLEIX . [ 1697-1763 . the English at Madras , some eighty miles to the north . The governor of Pondicherry was a French- man called Dupleix . He was the first European to see the possibility of founding an empire on the ruins of the ...
8 DUPLEIX . [ 1697-1763 . the English at Madras , some eighty miles to the north . The governor of Pondicherry was a French- man called Dupleix . He was the first European to see the possibility of founding an empire on the ruins of the ...
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... Dupleix . " Robert Clive was the eldest of a large English family . He was born in Shropshire in the year 1725. At a very early age he showed that he had a strong will and a fiery passion , " flying out on every trifling occasion ...
... Dupleix . " Robert Clive was the eldest of a large English family . He was born in Shropshire in the year 1725. At a very early age he showed that he had a strong will and a fiery passion , " flying out on every trifling occasion ...
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... Dupleix would carry all before him . suggested a sudden attack on Arcot , the residence of the Nawab ; and though the scheme seemed wild to the point of madness , he was given command of 200 Europeans and some native troops to march ...
... Dupleix would carry all before him . suggested a sudden attack on Arcot , the residence of the Nawab ; and though the scheme seemed wild to the point of madness , he was given command of 200 Europeans and some native troops to march ...
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... Dupleix was recalled from the East by Louis XV . , his dream of empire ended , to die in France heart - broken . But India's troubles were by no means at an end . English trade in the East was growing , and the English had long ago ...
... Dupleix was recalled from the East by Louis XV . , his dream of empire ended , to die in France heart - broken . But India's troubles were by no means at an end . English trade in the East was growing , and the English had long ago ...
Contents
JAMES BRUCE AND THE NILE | 55 |
MARIE ANTOINETTE | 65 |
THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES | 75 |
A REIGN OF TERROR | 81 |
HORATIO NELSON | 90 |
THE TRAVELS OF BARON HUMBOLDT | 101 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE STRUGGLE | 107 |
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Page 170 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Page 170 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 130 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 142 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France...
Page 166 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 25 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Page 23 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Page 170 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 139 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.