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Wellington

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George Hooper

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with…

The Political History of France, 1789-1910

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Muriel O. Davis

This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in t…

The Early Hanoverians

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Edward Ellis Morris

In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

Edward III

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William Parsons Warburton

Edward III reigned for fifty years, from 1327 to 1377. William Warburton writes that "the backbone of the story of his reign and times …

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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Elizabeth Robins Pennell

"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects…

Hildebrand and his Times

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William Richard Ward Stephens

W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…

Edward the First

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Thomas Frederick Tout

Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) …

Maria Theresa

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James Franck Bright

By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…

Ch. 1: The Northmen in Their Home A.D. 700-855

In The Normans in Europe

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Arthur Henry Johnson

This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the invasions of the Vikings, who came from Scandinavian villages among rugged rocks …

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