South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
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- "The Poor Little Governor . . . Distanced His Fierce Pursuers at Last"
- AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS SERIES
- South American Fights and Fighters
- AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
- ILLUSTRATIONS BY SEYMOUR M. STONE, GEORGE GIBBS, W. J. AYLWARD AND J. N. MARCHAND
- TOGETHER WITH REPRODUCTIONS FROM OLD PRINTS AND PORTRAITS
- GARDEN CITY ———— NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY MCMXIII
- To George William Beatty Good Fellow, Good Citizen Good Friend
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
- PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART I SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
- I Panama and the Knights-Errant of Colonization I. The Spanish Main
- II. The Don Quixote of Discoveries and His Rival
- "Ojeda Galloped Off with His Astonished Captive"
- "The Indians Poured a Rain of Poisoned Arrows"
- III. The Adventures of Ojeda
- IV. Enter One Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
- V. The Desperate Straits of Nicuesa
- II Panama, Balboa and a Forgotten Romance
- I. The Coming of the Devastator
- "Balboa . . . Engaged in Superintending the Roofing of a House"
- II. The Greatest Exploit since Columbus's Voyage
- "The Expedition Had to Fight Its Way Through Tribes of Warlike and Ferocious Mountaineers"
- "He Took Possession of the Sea in the Name of Castile and Leon"
- "He Threw the Sacred Volume to the Ground in a Violent Rage"
- III. "Furor Domini"
- IV. The End of Balboa
- III Peru and the Pizarros
- A Study in Retribution "They that take the sword shall perish by the sword."
- I. The Chief Scion of a Famous Family
- II. The Terrible Persistence of Pizarro
- III. "A Communistic Despotism."
- IV. The Treacherous and Bloody Massacre of Caxamarca.
- V. The Ransom and Murder of the Inca
- "They Burst Upon the Ranks of the Unarmed Indians."
- "The Three Pizarros . . . Sallied Out to Meet Them"
- VI. The Inca and the Peruvians Strike Vainly for Freedom
- "He Threw His Sole Remaining Weapon in the Faces of the Escaladers"
- VII. "The Men of Chili" and the Civil Wars
- Fernando Cortes. From a Picture in the Florence Gallery
- VIII. The Mean End of the Great Conquistador
- IX. The Last of the Brethren
- IV The Greatest Adventure in History
- I. The Chief of all the Soldiers of Fortune
- II. The Expedition to Mexico.
- III. The Religion of the Aztecs
- IV. The March to Tenochtitlan
- V. The Republic of Tlascala
- VI. Cortes' Description of Mexico, written by his own hand to Charles V., Emperor of Germany and King of Spain
- VII. The Meeting with Montezuma
- VIII. The Seizure of the Emperor
- IX. The Revolt of the Capital
- X. In God's Way
- The Death of Montezuma. From an old engraving.
- "He Defended Himself With His Terrible Spear"
- XI. The Melancholy Night
- XII. The Siege and Destruction of Mexico
- XIII. A Day of Desperate Fighting
- XIV. The Last Mexican
- XV. The End of Cortes
- PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE
- I The Yarn of the Essex, Whaler
- "The Ship Came to a Dead Stop"
- "The Killing of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr, at Weehawken, New Jersey, July 11, 1804"
- II Some Famous American Duels
- I. A Tragedy of Old New York
- II. Andrew Jackson as a Duellist
- III. The Killing of Stephen Decatur
- IV. An Episode in the Life of James Bowie
- V. A Famous Congressional Duel
- VI. The Last Notable Duel in America
- III The Cruise of the Tonquin
- A Forgotten Tragedy in Early American History
- IV
- John Paul Jones Being Further Light on His Strange Career[1]
- I. The Birth of the American Navy
- II. Jones First Hoists the Stars and Stripes
- III. The Battle With the Serapis
- IV. A Hero's Famous Sayings
- V. What Jones Did for His Country
- VI. Why Did He Take the Name of Jones?
- VII. Search for Historical Evidence
- VIII. The Joneses of North Carolina
- IX. Paul Jones Never a Man of Wealth
- V In the Caverns of the Pitt A Story of a Forgotten Fight with the Indians
- VI Being a Boy Out West
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