Archives for June 2016

The Massacre Continues for Days

The St. Bartholomew Day Massacre began on Sunday and lasted through Tuesday.Continuing The Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre,with a selection The

English attack Quebec; Quebec incapable of defense. Only fifty pounds of gunpowder were left in the magazine; and the fort, owing to the neglect and

As if the popular frenzy needed excitement, Marshal Tavannes, the military director of this deed of treachery, rode through the streets with dripping

Within the walls of the Louvre, within the hearing of Charles and his mother, if not actually within their sight, one of the foulest scenes of this

Exactly a century passed between the death of Mahomet and the date of the battle of Tours.Continuing Battle of Tours,our selection from Fifteen

From our Humor Department:My Grandma, who had come out west with Daniel Boone, used to torture me with tales of what she had endured when she was

Presently there was a loud knock at the outer gate -- "Open in the King's name." The St. Bartholomew Day Massacre began.Continuing The Saint

England threw open her colonies to all who wished to enter, -- to the suffering and oppressed, the bold, active, and enterprising. France shut out

Shortly after midnight the Queen-mother rose and went to the King's chamber, attended only by one lady, the Duchess of Nemours, whose thirst for