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The Battle of Marathon, BC 490, by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, part 2

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01

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Charles F. Horne

A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Part 4, Chapter 40

In The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2

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Jefferson Davis

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …

A Solitary

In An Isle in the Water

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Katharine Tynan Hinkson

'Here, among the hosts of ladies who write with care and inelegance, comes a woman artist. An Isle in the Water is a collection of fifteen w…

19 - Captured

In Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat

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Victor Appleton

Otherwise known as 'Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure', is Volume 4 in the original Tom Swift novel series. Tom persuades his father to us…

A Strange Bringing Up Part 1

In At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

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G. A. Henty

The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire t…

Chapter XII - The Battle of Pultowa, 1709 - Part 1

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …