The Story of the World for Children of the British Empire, Book 4W. Blackwood & Sons, 1903 |
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... 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 people ...
... 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 people ...
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... took Calcutta with ease , making 146 prisoners . But the treasury did not yield the vast riches he had been led to expect , and he wreaked his revenge on the luckless prisoners . It was a hot night in June when the 146 English captives ...
... took Calcutta with ease , making 146 prisoners . But the treasury did not yield the vast riches he had been led to expect , and he wreaked his revenge on the luckless prisoners . It was a hot night in June when the 146 English captives ...
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... took up his quarters in a grove of mango- trees , within a mile of the enemy . He could not sleep . All night long he heard the sound of drums . and cymbals from the vast camp of the Nawab . He knew but too well the fearful odds against ...
... took up his quarters in a grove of mango- trees , within a mile of the enemy . He could not sleep . All night long he heard the sound of drums . and cymbals from the vast camp of the Nawab . He knew but too well the fearful odds against ...
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... took hold of English statesmen . " We are no longer a nation , " cried one English minister . He did not know that England was on the eve of her greatest triumphs in America as well as in India . It was this dark hour that called forth ...
... took hold of English statesmen . " We are no longer a nation , " cried one English minister . He did not know that England was on the eve of her greatest triumphs in America as well as in India . It was this dark hour that called forth ...
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... , until the courageous British sailors dashed down upon it and broke it into fragments . August arrived , with storms and cold . Fever took hold of Wolfe . Always frail in body , he lay 30 PREPARING FOR THE ATTACK . [ 1759 . for.
... , until the courageous British sailors dashed down upon it and broke it into fragments . August arrived , with storms and cold . Fever took hold of Wolfe . Always frail in body , he lay 30 PREPARING FOR THE ATTACK . [ 1759 . for.
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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.