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The Brave Brethren Of Judah by Charlotte M. Yonge
B.C. 180 It was about 180 years before the Christian era. The Jews had long since come home from Babylon,…
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The Battle Of The Blackwater by Charlotte M. Yonge
991 In the evil days of King Ethelred the Unready, when the teaching of good King Alfred was fast fading…
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The Battle Of Sempach by Charlotte M. Yonge
1397 Nothing in history has been more remarkable than the union of the cantons and cities of the little republic…
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Sir Thomas More’s Daughter by Charlotte M. Yonge
1535 We have seen how dim and doubtful was the belief that upbore the grave and beautiful Antigone in her…
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Leo The Slave by Charlotte M. Yonge
A.D. 533 The Franks had fully gained possession of all the north of Gaul, except Brittany. Chlodweh had made them…
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How One Man Has Saved A Host by Charlotte M. Yonge
B.C. 507 There have been times when the devotion of one man has been the saving of an army. Such,…
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Heroes Of The Plague by Charlotte M. Yonge
1576–1665–1721 When our Litany entreats that we may be delivered from ‘plague, pestilence, and famine’, the first of these words…
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Guzman El Bueno by Charlotte M. Yonge
1293 In the early times of Spanish history, before the Moors had been expelled from the peninsula, or the blight…
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Gunpowder Perils by Charlotte M. Yonge
1700 The wild history of Ireland contains many a frightful tale, but also many an action of the noblest order;…
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George The Triller by Charlotte M. Yonge
1455 I. ‘Why, Lady dear, so sad of cheer?Hast waked the livelong night?’‘My dreams foreshow my children’s woe,Ernst bold and…
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