LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664612175

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       PREFACE.

       ENGRAVINGS.

       WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

       Chapter I.

       Normandy.

       A.D. 870-912

       Chapter II.

       Birth of William .

       A.D. 912-1033

       Chapter III.

       The Accession.

       A.D. 1035-1040

       Chapter IV.

       William's Reign in Normandy.

       A.D. 1040-1060

       Chapter V.

       The Marriage.

       A.D. 1045-1052

       Chapter VI.

       The Lady Emma.

       A.D. 1002-1052

       Chapter VII.

       King Harold.

       A.D. 1063-1066

       Chapter VIII.

       The Preparations.

       A.D. 1066

       Chapter IX.

       Crossing the Channel.

       A.D. 1066

       Chapter X.

       The Battle of Hastings.

       A.D. 1066

       Chapter XI.

       Prince Robert's Rebellion.

       A.D. 1076-1077

       Chapter XII.

       The Conclusion.

       A.D. 1078-1087

       The End.

PREFACE.

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      In selecting the subjects for the successive volumes of this series, it has been the object of the author to look for the names of those great personages whose histories constitute useful, and not merely entertaining, knowledge. There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame. This knowledge, which it seems incumbent on every one to obtain in respect to such personages as Hannibal, Alexander, Cæsar, Cleopatra, Darius, Xerxes, Alfred, William the Conqueror, Queen Elizabeth, and Mary Queen of Scots, it is the design and object of these volumes to communicate, in a faithful, and, at the same time, if possible, in an attractive manner. Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness.

ENGRAVINGS.

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