The Story of the World for Children of the British Empire, Book 4W. Blackwood & Sons, 1903 |
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... followed took precedence of the native court . He was de- clared Governor of India from Hyderabad to Cape Comorin , a country the same size as France itself ; he was given command of seven thousand men ; he ruled over thirty millions of ...
... followed took precedence of the native court . He was de- clared Governor of India from Hyderabad to Cape Comorin , a country the same size as France itself ; he was given command of seven thousand men ; he ruled over thirty millions of ...
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... appealed to the guards in their agony . The guards only replied from outside that the Nawab was asleep , and none dared wake him or remove a single prisoner without his leave . Then 14 CALCUTTA RE - TAKEN . [ 1757 . followed.
... appealed to the guards in their agony . The guards only replied from outside that the Nawab was asleep , and none dared wake him or remove a single prisoner without his leave . Then 14 CALCUTTA RE - TAKEN . [ 1757 . followed.
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Margaret Bertha Synge. 14 CALCUTTA RE - TAKEN . [ 1757 . followed cries for water . A few water - skins were brought to the gratings , but in the mad struggle to reach it many were trampled to death . The heartless guards only held ...
Margaret Bertha Synge. 14 CALCUTTA RE - TAKEN . [ 1757 . followed cries for water . A few water - skins were brought to the gratings , but in the mad struggle to reach it many were trampled to death . The heartless guards only held ...
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... followed the coast of Australia northward for 2000 miles , and after an absence of three years he reached home . But disease and death had over- taken his crew , and the Endeavour was little better than a hospital when she staggered ...
... followed the coast of Australia northward for 2000 miles , and after an absence of three years he reached home . But disease and death had over- taken his crew , and the Endeavour was little better than a hospital when she staggered ...
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... followed in its train . When he marched against the great Indian warrior , Hyder Ali , who had overrun lands under British sway , he allowed whole native villages to be set on fire , slaughtered the inhabitants , or swept innocent ...
... followed in its train . When he marched against the great Indian warrior , Hyder Ali , who had overrun lands under British sway , he allowed whole native villages to be set on fire , slaughtered the inhabitants , or swept innocent ...
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Popular passages
Page 121 - Ye are brothers ! ye are men ! And we conquer but to save ; So peace instead of death let us bring ; But yield, proud foe, thy fleet, With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our king.
Page 169 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page 129 - 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 24 - 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 169 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 138 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.
Page 169 - 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 115 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shoae round him o'er the dead.
Page 218 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 41 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.