This series has five easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: From the Revolts of the Spanish Colonies in
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Intense Reaction Throughout Europe
Today's installment concludes Charles V Sacks Rome,the name of our combined selection from Benvenuto Cellini and T. Adolphus Trollope. The
Capture of Salmon Falls
The crowning event of the war was the capture of Pemaquid, a stockade work, mounted with seven or eight cannon.Our special project presenting
City of Rome Doomed
Clement, who by his pennywise parsimony had left himself defenseless, made a feeble and wholly vain attempt to put the city in a state of
A Disgraced and Ruined Man
If the Emperor wished his army kept together, and provided no sums for the purpose, he was not unwilling that they should live by plunder.Continuing
Manning Rome’s Citadel
He stationed me with five fine pieces of artillery on the highest point of the castle.Continuing Charles V Sacks Rome.Today is our final
Charles V Sacks Rome
This series has five easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Bourbon's Army Arrives.IntroductionCharles, Duc de Bourbon, known as
The Moving Drama on the Banks of the Vaal
Today's installment concludes Diamonds Discovered in South Africa,our selection from The Diamond Mines of South Africa by Gardner F. Williams
Sights Along the Way to the Diamond Fields
When the prospectors crossed the karroo and entered the stretches of pasture-land which the Dutch called “veld”, the scenes of their marches were much