Strange Stories from History for Young People
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- STRANGE STORIES FROM HISTORY
- FOR
- YOUNG PEOPLE
- GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
- "RED EAGLE," "THE BIG BROTHER," "THE WRECK OF THE RED BIRD," "THE SIGNAL BOYS," ETC.
- Illustrated
- NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
- HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE SERIES.
- Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00 per volume.
- Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States or Canada, on receipt of the price. Copyright, 1885, by Harper & Brothers.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- THE STORY OF THE NEGRO FORT.
- A WAR FOR AN ARCHBISHOP.
- THE CURIOUS STORY OF VLADIMIR THE GREAT.
- THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS.
- THE CANOE FIGHT.
- AN INCIDENT OF THE CREEK WAR.
- THE BATTLE OF LAKE BORGNE.
- HOW THE BRITISH MADE A LANDING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
- THE BATTLE IN THE DARK.
- HOW GENERAL JACKSON RECEIVED THE BRITISH.
- THE TROUBLESOME BURGHERS.
- THE DEFENCE OF ROCHELLE.
- HOW THE CITY OF REFUGE FOUGHT FOR LIBERTY.
- THE SAD STORY OF A BOY KING.
- TWO OBSCURE HEROES.
- HOW THE PARTISAN WARFARE IN THE CAROLINAS WAS BEGUN.
- THE CHARGE OF THE HOUNDS.
- AN INCIDENT OF THE CREEK WAR.
- THE STORY OF A WINTER CAMPAIGN.
- YOUNG WASHINGTON IN THE WOODS.
- THE STORY OF A PERILOUS JOURNEY.
- THE STORY OF CATHERINE.
- THE VIRGINIA WIFE-MARKET.
- TWO SHIPLOADS OF SWEETHEARTS AND THE PRICES PAID FOR THEM.
- THE BOYHOOD OF DANIEL WEBSTER.[A]
- THE SCULLION WHO BECAME A SCULPTOR.
- THE BOYHOOD OF WILLIAM CHAMBERS.
- HOW A BOY WAS HIRED OUT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
- THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD.
- A PRINCE WHO WOULD NOT STAY DEAD.
- THE END.
- Footnotes.
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