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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

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

This series has nine easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: France's King and Queen Ponder.IntroductionIn an age of ISIS after the

Already at birth, the reasons why France would not, could not succeed in Canada were becoming apparent. Why New France Failed.Our special