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The Coming of the Saxons and Angles
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The Good King Arthur
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How Prince Alfred Learned To Read
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King Alfred and the Danes
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King Alfred and the Cakes
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King Alfred in the Camp of the Danes
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King Canute, the Danes
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King Canute on the Seashore
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The Coming of the Normans
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The Battle of Hastings
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William the Conqueror
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The Red King
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Henry the First and the White Ship
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Henry the Second, Who Died Broken-Hearted
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Richard the Lion Heart and His Minstrel
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How King Richard Met His Death
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Robin Hood
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Robin Hood's Last Shot
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King John and the Magna Charta
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Prince Arthur
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King Edward the First
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The First Prince of Wales
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Robert Bruce
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Edward the Black Prince
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The Brave Men of Calais
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Prince Hal
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How Henry the Sixth Lost His Crown
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The Two Princes in the Tower
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A Queen for Ten Days
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Mary Queen of Scots
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Sir Philip Sidney
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The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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The Gunpowder Plot
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The Royal Oak
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The Great Plague
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The Great Fire
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"Bonnie Prince Charlie"
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England's Greatest Naval Hero
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James Watt and the Steam Engine
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George Stephenson and the Locomotive
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Queen Victoria
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Front Matter
Preface
THIS book is intended to be used as a supplementary reading
book for the fourth and fifth grades of our public
schools, and for any other young people from ten to
fifteen years of age. It is also designed as a
collateral reading book in connection with the formal
study of the numerous elementary textbooks on English
history.
The authors have attempted to set forth in some detail
a series of dramatic and picturesque events in
English history from the earliest times to the present
day. These events have been carefully compiled and
rewritten from standard books and authors. The story
form has been freely used, because experience in the
schoolroom shows that such an arrangement usually
serves to arouse a lively interest in historical
reading and to
stimulate a laudable ambition to read more advanced
books written for young people on similar subjects.
It is suggested that teachers and others supplement
the text of this book with such other historical
material as may be readily obtained from school, home,
or the public libraries.
July, 1912.
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