Burgoyne's employment of the Indians now produced the worst possible effects.Continuing Battle of Saratoga,our selection from Fifteen Decisive
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He had also an auxiliary force of from two to three thousand Canadians.Continuing Battle of Saratoga,our selection from Fifteen Decisive Battles
The Battle of Saratoga
This series has six easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Background of the Battle.IntroductionViewed by itself, the victory over
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Today's installment concludes Venice Founded,the name of our combined selection from Thomas Hodgkin and John Ruskin. The concluding installment, by
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When the eye falls casually on a map of Europe, there is no feature by which it is more likely to be arrested than the strange sweeping loop formed by
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As the boat drew nearer to the city, the coast which the traveler had just left sank behind him into one long, low, sad-colored line, tufted
Herodotus Book I, Verses 67-74
Croesus senT messengers to Sparta with gifts in their hands to ask for an alliance.Translated by George C. Macaulay -- our special project
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The dim religious light, half revealing the slowly gathered glories of St. Mark's; the Ducal Palace, that history in stone; the Rialto, with the
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For our present purpose and as a worker out of Venetian history, Po, notwithstanding the far greater volume of his waters, is of less importance than