Historic Boyhoods. Rupert Sargent Holland

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       Rupert Sargent Holland

      Historic Boyhoods

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066193010

Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       I

       Christopher Columbus

       II

       Michael Angelo

       III

       Walter Raleigh

       IV

       Peter the Great

       V

       Frederick the Great

       VI

       George Washington

       VII

       Daniel Boone

       VIII

       John Paul Jones

       IX

       Mozart

       X

       Lafayette

       XI

       Horatio Nelson

       XII

       Robert Fulton

       XIII

       Andrew Jackson

       XIV

       Napoleon Bonaparte

       XV

       Walter Scott

       XVI

       James Fenimore Cooper

       XVII

       John Ericsson

       XVIII

       Garibaldi

       XIX

       Abraham Lincoln

       XX

       Charles Dickens

       XXI

       Otto von Bismarck

ILLUSTRATIONS

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      The Fleet of Columbus Nearing America Walter Raleigh and the Fisherman of Devon Peter the Great Mrs. Washington Urges George Not to Enter the Navy Daniel Boone's First View of Kentucky Paul Jones Capturing the "Serapis" Mozart and His Sister Before Maria Theresa Lafayette Tells of His Wish to Aid America Nelson Boarding the "San Josef" Robert Fulton's First Experiment with Paddle Wheels Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans The Snow Fort at Brienne Napoleon as a Cadet in Paris Street in Edinburgh Where Scott Played as a Boy Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln Charles Dickens at Eighteen

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Christopher Columbus

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      The Boy of Genoa: 1446(?)-1506

      A privateer was leaving Genoa on a certain June morning in 1461, and crowds of people had gathered on the quays to see the ship sail. Dark-hued men from the distant shores of Africa, clad in brilliant red and yellow and blue blouses or tunics and hose, with dozens of glittering gilded chains about their necks, and rings in their ears, jostled sun-browned sailors and merchants from the east, and the fairer-skinned men and women of