Santa Anna considered it the key to the city and awaited the attack in perfect confidence with thirty thousand men.Continuing Scott Captures Mexico
Battle Before San Angel
It rained all night and the men lay in the mud without fires.Continuing Scott Captures Mexico City,Our selection from a special article to volume
Louis Napoleon’s Ruthless Acts
Today's installment concludes The Coup D'etat of Louis Napoleon,our selection from Memoir, Letters, and Remains by Alexis De Tocqueville published
Depraved Behavior of the Survivors
Today's installment concludes The Great London Plague,our selection from History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe.If you have journeyed
Mass Graves for the Dead
It was about September 10th that my curiosity led or rather drove me to go and see this pit again, when there had been about four hundred people
Watchmen Guard Quarantined Houses
A terrible pit it was, and I could not resist the curiosity to go and see it.Continuing The Great London Plague,our selection from History of the
Escapes of the Quarantined
Many such escapes were made out of infected houses, as particularly when the watchman was sent some errand, that is to say, for necessaries, such as
Cruel Quarantines of the Houses of the Sick
As I went along Houndsditch one morning, about eight o'clock, there was a great noise.Continuing The Great London Plague,our selection from
The Case for Norwegian Independence
Today's installment concludes Norway Establishes Independence,with a short selection from Letter to the Independent by Bjornstjerne