Agincourt is the quintessential English battle. Outnumbered English forces meet the French on the battlefield, and through courage, tenacity, (and a wicked Welsh weapon called a longbow), they win the day. While Henry V was triumphant, and was...
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With Kitchener in the Soudan : a story of Atbara and Omdurman
Gregory Hilliard Hartley is a young man, brother to the heir of an English estate. When he marries a young lady lower on the social ladder than his father wished, he was expelled from his father's house. He soon travels to Egypt, due to his...
Typical Henty, good history but lots of names and places to keep track of. A decent story of a young Englishman who earns his...
The beginning of the present century glorious as it was for British arms abroad was a dark time to those who lived by their daily labor at...
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A March on London: being a story of Wat Tyler's insurrection
The king is going to mass at Westminster, the knight said, and after that he will ride round the city. I shall go myself to Westminster with him, and you can both ride with me, for it may be that the king on his way may be met by the rabble,...
Gervaise Tresham, the hero of this story, joins the Order of the Knights of St. John, and leaving England he proceeds to the stronghold of Rhodes. Subsequently, Gervaise is made a Knight of the White Cross for valor, while soon after he is...
It was a dumb idea, but one of those dumb ideas that accidentally turns out to be brilliant—which, I’ve come to realize, is much worse than being dumb. My name’s Antsy Bonano—but you probably already know that—and unless you got, like,...
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In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
Breathtaking adventure during the French Revolution (1793) as Harry Sandwith, a young Englishman is hired to be a companion to the sons of a nobleman. Throughout the story, Harry is called upon to summon his courage as he rescues his French...
Семь весёлых историй о знаменитых мультипликационных...
“I wish most heartily that something would happen,” Harry Parkhurst, a midshipman of some sixteen years of age, said to his chum, Dick Balderson, as they leaned on the rail of her majesty's gunboat Serpent, and looked gloomily at the turbid...