This series has four easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionAlthough after the failure of the Second Crusade the interest felt by the western
Brazil Becomes Independent
This series has three easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionIn its close connection with the asylum given by Brazil to Portuguese royalty in
The Battle of Marathon
This series has twelve easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionMarathon! A name to conjure up such visions of glory as few battlefields have ever
The Battle of Thermopylae
This series has six easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe invasion of Greece by Xerxes is the subject of the great history written in nine
Syracuse Defeats Athens
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThat great writer of the history of the Romans, Thomas Arnold, says of the defeat
Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign
This series has four easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe Treaty of Tilsit saw Napoleon at the height of his power. Russia had become his
Saladin Takes Jerusalem From the Christians
This series has five easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe First Crusade (not counting the earlier Children’s Crusade) had been heroically
Great Britain Acquires Nova Scotia
This series has easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionPort Royal was founded by Samuel Champlain in 1605. The French fortified the place and
Union of England and Scotland
This series has easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionBack in Roman days Emperor Hadrian built a wall to keep the inhabitants of Scotland out