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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... East is East , and West is West , and never the twain shall meet . " -KIPLING . THE wonderful story of England's conquest of India reads , even to - day , like some fairy legend of the Old World . It is the story of how one small island ...
... East is East , and West is West , and never the twain shall meet . " -KIPLING . THE wonderful story of England's conquest of India reads , even to - day , like some fairy legend of the Old World . It is the story of how one small island ...
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... two hundred years in India . The empire was soon after broken up , and the way left clear for England to found her great Eastern Empire beyond the seas . 1747. ] EUROPEANS IN INDIA . 7 2. ROBERT CLIVE HOW PITT SAVED ENGLAND.
... two hundred years in India . The empire was soon after broken up , and the way left clear for England to found her great Eastern Empire beyond the seas . 1747. ] EUROPEANS IN INDIA . 7 2. ROBERT CLIVE HOW PITT SAVED ENGLAND.
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... East . But from that May day in 1498 , when Vasco da Gama1 and his brave Portuguese sailors stepped ashore at ... East . The Dutch headquarters was at Batavia ; the French at Pondicherry , on the east coast of India ; 1 See Book II ...
... East . But from that May day in 1498 , when Vasco da Gama1 and his brave Portuguese sailors stepped ashore at ... East . The Dutch headquarters was at Batavia ; the French at Pondicherry , on the east coast of India ; 1 See Book II ...
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... East India Company , to " make his fortune or die of a fever . " His voyage was unusually long and tedious , last- ing over a year . At last he arrived at the port of Madras - a barren spot beaten by a raging surf- 10 CLIVE'S ATTACK ON ...
... East India Company , to " make his fortune or die of a fever . " His voyage was unusually long and tedious , last- ing over a year . At last he arrived at the port of Madras - a barren spot beaten by a raging surf- 10 CLIVE'S ATTACK ON ...
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... 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 established a trading station at ...
... 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 established a trading station at ...
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.