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  • Cressy and Poictiers: The Story of the Black Prince's Page

    by John George Edgar ...
    In the fourteenth century, when the population of England was estimated at two millions—when our railways were bridle-roads and our cornfields forests, and when the capital was a little town enclosed by an old Roman fortified wall, with towers and turrets—no festival, save Christmas and May Day, was regarded with more interest than Midsummer Eve, or the vigil of St. John the Baptist. Great was the ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of John George Edgar

    by John George Edgar ...
    The Complete Works of John George EdgarJohn George Edgar, was an English miscellaneous writer. Many of his books were intended for boys.This collection includes the following:The Boy CrusadersDanes, Saxons and NormansCressy and PoictiersThe Wars of the RosesRunnymede and Lincoln FairFootprints of Famous Men ... Read more

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  • The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX

    by John George Edgar ...
    IT was the age of chain armour and tournaments—of iron barons and barons' wars—of pilgrims and armed pilgrimages—of forests and forest outlaws—when Henry III. reigned as King of England, and the feudal system, though no longer rampant, was still full of life and energy; when Louis King of France, afterwards canonised as St. Louis, undertook one of the last and most celebrated of those expeditions ... Read more

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  • Danes, Saxons and Normans; Or, Stories of our Ancestors

    by John George Edgar ...
    In the following pages I have endeavoured to tell in a popular way the story of the Norman Conquest, and to give an idea of the principal personages who figured in England at the period when that memorable event took place; and I have endeavoured, I hope not without some degree of success, to treat the subject in a popular and picturesque style, without any sacrifice of historic truth. With a view ... Read more

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  • Footprints of Famous Men: Designed as Incitements to Intellectual Industry

    by John George Edgar ...
    It has been remarked that, in general, persons attain with credit, and fill with dignity, the positions which might have been anticipated from their juvenile indications. Some, indeed, afterward display talents of which, in their first stages, they gave no sign, and others put forth a blossom not destined to bring forth the promised fruits: but most frequently the man is such as might have been ... Read more

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  • The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX.

    by John George Edgar ...
    AMONG the many adventurous enterprises which rendered the age of feudalism and chain-armour memorable in history, none were more remarkable or important than the 'armed pilgrimages' popularly known as the Crusades; and, among the expeditions which the warriors of mediæval Europe undertook with the view of rescuing the Holy Sepulchre from the Saracens, hardly one is so interesting as that which had ... Read more

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  • The Wars of the Roses: Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster

    by John George Edgar ...
    On St. Nicholas's Day, in the year 1421, there was joy in the castle of Windsor and rejoicing in the city of London. On that day Katherine de Valois, youthful spouse of the fifth Henry, became mother of a prince destined to wear the crown of the Plantagenets; and courtiers vied with citizens in expressing gratification that a son had been born to the conqueror of Agincourt—an heir to the kingdoms ... Read more

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  • Runnymede and Lincoln Fair: A Story of the Great Charter

    by John George Edgar ...
    IT was the eve of Christmas in the year 1214, when John was King of England; and, albeit England was on the verge of a sanguinary civil war, which was to shake the kingdom to its centre, and cause infinite suffering to families and individuals, London—then a little city, containing some forty thousand inhabitants, and surrounded by an old Roman wall, said to have been built by the Emperor ... Read more

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  • Out of This World Adventures

    A Honeymoon in Space, A Journey in Other Worlds, and A Princess of Mars

    by George Griffith, John Jacob Astor, Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
    These three sci-fi novels from the dawn of the twentieth century are among the first works of fiction to imagine visiting other planets.A Honeymoon in Space: Lenox, the Earl of Redgrave, has invented a flying ship with the power to break free of Earth's gravity. But before taking to the stars, he has some personal business to attend to—namely, wooing an old flame. The lady in question is Zaidie, a ... Read more

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  • From London To Land's End

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    A detailed account of the travels undertaken by Defoe roughly around 1722 is presented in this work. A unique travelogue it explains the places as well as the sentiments of the author during the tours. The work engrosses the reader completely. ... Read more

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  • History of the Battle of Agincourt

    by Nicholas Nicolas ...
    About the middle of the year 1414, Henry the Fifth, influenced by the persuasions of Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the dying injunction of his royal father not to allow the kingdom to remain long at peace, or, more probably, by those feelings of ambition which were no less natural to his youth and personal character, than consonant with the manners of the times in which he lived, ... Read more

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  • Stories from History

    by Agnes Strickland ...
    The early history of England, or Britain, as it was anciently called, is involved in great obscurity. The reason of this is, that its first inhabitants, a colony from some other nation, were so much occupied in providing for the actual wants of life, as to have but very little time to spare for the purpose of preserving records of the country whence they came. They were, too, in a state of ... Read more

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