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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…

Chapter 1 Part 3

In Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre

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Alexandre Dumas

Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…

A Glimpse of the Italian Army

In A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their l…

CHAPTER I.Of the Beginnings of Cities in general, and in particular of that of …

In Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli

In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…

Book I - The Crossing of the Rubicon, part 1

In Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

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Lucan

Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…