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Hero Tales from History
By Smith Burnham
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Table of Contents
- HERO TALES FROM HISTORY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- MIGHTY MEN OF LONG AGO
- MOSES, THE GREATEST LAW-GIVER, AND THE MEEKEST MAN
- DAVID, THE GIANT-KILLER KING
- HOMER, THE HERO POET OF ANCIENT GREECE
- SOCRATES, THE “GRAND OLD MAN” OF GREECE
- ALEXANDER, THE BOY WHO CONQUERED THE WORLD
- FOUR FAMILIAR SAYINGS OF JULIUS CÆSAR
- HEROES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
- THE CHRISTMAS CROWNING OF CHARLEMAGNE
- ALFRED, THE GREATEST OF THE SAXON KINGS
- HOW WILLIAM OF NORMANDY CONQUERED A KINGDOM
- LION-HEARTED RICHARD AND WOLF-HEARTED JOHN
- JOAN OF ARC AND THE LILIES OF FRANCE
- FOUR LEADERS IN THE OLD WORLD
- SHAKESPEARE, THE GREATEST MAKER OF PLAYS
- HOW CROMWELL CHANGED PLACES WITH THE KING
- NAPOLEON, THE CORSICAN BOY WHO RULED EUROPE
- NELSON, THE HERO OF TRAFALGAR
- DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS
- COLUMBUS, THE MAP-MAKER WHO FOUND A NEW WORLD
- MAGELLAN, THE MAN OF THE STRAITS
- CORTES, THE CONQUEROR
- DE SOTO, A GOLD HUNTER IN SOUTHERN SWAMPS
- SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, ENGLAND’S FIRST GREAT SAILOR
- SIR WALTER RALEIGH, THE FAVORITE OF GOOD QUEEN BESS
- HENRY HUDSON, THE MAN WHO PUT HIMSELF ON THE MAP
- LA SALLE AND THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI
- LIVINGSTONE, THE WHITE MAN OF THE DARK CONTINENT
- PEARY, A HERO OF THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
- COLONISTS AND PIONEERS
- JOHN SMITH, THE CAPTAIN OF MANY ADVENTURES
- CHAMPLAIN, THE FATHER OF NEW FRANCE
- MYLES STANDISH, THE BRAVE LITTLE CAPTAIN OF PLYMOUTH
- JOHN WINTHROP, A PURITAN MAKER OF MASSACHUSETTS
- ROGER WILLIAMS, A MINISTER WHO LIVED THE GOLDEN RULE
- LORD BALTIMORE, CALVERT AND CLAIBORNE, THE THREE FATHERS OF MARYLAND
- WILLIAM PENN, THE FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA
- PATRIOTS OF THE REVOLUTION
- PATRICK HENRY, THE “FIREBRAND OF THE REVOLUTION”
- NATHAN HALE, WHO SPOKE THE BRAVEST WORDS IN HISTORY
- LAFAYETTE, THE BOY HERO OF TWO WORLDS
- THE IMMORTAL REPLY OF JOHN PAUL JONES
- GENERAL MARION, THE CAROLINA “SWAMP FOX”
- WINNERS OF THE WEST
- WOLFE AND MONTCALM, THE RIVAL HEROES OF QUEBEC
- DANIEL BOONE, THE GREAT INDIAN FIGHTER OF KENTUCKY
- GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, THE YOUNG HERO WITH A GREAT IDEA
- LEWIS AND CLARK, TWO ADVENTURERS IN THE FAR WEST
- DAVY CROCKETT, THE HERO OF THE ALAMO
- FAMOUS INVENTORS
- HOW ELI WHITNEY MADE COTTON KING
- “FULTON’S FOLLY”
- HOW MORSE SENT LETTERS BY LIGHTNING
- CYRUS H. M’CORMICK AND THE STORY OF THE REAPER
- ELIAS HOWE AND HIS SEWING MACHINE
- EDISON, THE WIZARD OF MANY INVENTIONS
- THE GREATEST AMERICANS
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE BOY WHO WAS DILIGENT IN BUSINESS
- GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS MOTHER
- ALEXANDER HAMILTON, THE ORPHAN BOY FROM THE WEST INDIES
- THOMAS JEFFERSON, THE FATHER OF DEMOCRACY
- ANDREW JACKSON, AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR HERO
- WEBSTER, CLAY, CALHOUN, THREE GREAT CHAMPIONS IN CONGRESS
- THE KIND HEART OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- ULYSSES S. GRANT, THE GENERAL WHO HATED WAR
- THE NOBLE SOUL OF ROBERT E. LEE
- DAVY FARRAGUT, THE HERO OF MOBILE BAY
- THE STRENUOUS LIFE OF ROOSEVELT
- CLARA BARTON, “THE ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD”
- HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, THE AMERICAN CHILDREN’S POET
- INDEX
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