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Антология содержит: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbarossa to Dante) The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Days (1910-1914)
See Downfall of Irish Liberty: "Flight of the Earls," page 299.
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See The Gunpowder Plot, page 310.
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See Settlement of Virginia, page 350.
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See Founding of Quebec, page 366.
REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS AGAINST SPAIN
RISE OF THE GUEUX OR BEGGARS
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The Regent mentioned to the King a number (three thousand) of these writings. It is remarkable how important a part printing, and publicity in general, played in the rebellion of the Netherlands. Through this organ one restless spirit spoke to millions. Besides the lampoons, which for the most part were composed with all the low scurrility and brutality that were the distinguishing characteristics of most of the Protestant polemical writings of the time, works were occasionally published which defended religious liberty in the fullest sense of the word.
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It was not without cause that the Prince of Orange suddenly disappeared from Brussels in order to be present at the election of a king of Rome in Frankfort. An assembly of so many German princes must have greatly favored a negotiation.
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"But," Egmont asserted in his written defence, "we drank only one single small glass, and thereupon they cried, 'Long live the King and the Gueux!' This was the first time that I heard that appellation, and it certainly did not please me. But the times were so bad that one was often compelled to share in much that was against one's inclination, and I knew not but I was doing an innocent thing."
MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW
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The author, not Professor Saintsbury, is responsible for the Italics.
SEARCH FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE BY FROBISHER
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Cathay (China).
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Further details of this voyage may be gathered from the log of Christopher Hall, master of the Gabriel, printed in Hakluyt. The present narrative, prefixed to Best's accounts of the second and third voyages, was preceded by a treatise intended to prove all parts of the earth, even the poles, equally habitable.
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The date is incorrect. Hall quitted his moorings at Ratcliffe on the 7th, and left Deptford on the 8th. In passing the royal palace of Greenwich, says Hall, "we shot off our ordnance, and made the best show we could. Her majesty, beholding the same, commended it, and bade us farewell, with shaking her hand at us out of the window." Gravesend was passed on the 12th.
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The land was Greenland. Friesland was the name given to the Faroe Islands in the voyage of the brothers Zeni. Hall saw the rocky spires of the coast "rising like pinnacles of steeples" in the afternoon sun.
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The northeast corner of the island to the north of Resolution Island.
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The North Foreland, at the southeast corner of Hall's Island.
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Afterward called Frobisher Bay.
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The English assayers all pronounced the stone worthless. An Italian, Giovanni Baptista Agnello, reported it to contain gold. On being questioned as to how it was that he alone was able to produce gold from the stone, he is said to have replied, "Bisogna safiere adular la natura" ("Nature requires coaxing "). Agnello's assay necessarily involved the addition of other substances for the purpose of separating the gold; and it has been suggested that the gold produced by him was itself added during this process. There is no good reason for thinking so. Pyrites often contains a minute proportion of gold. Admitting the possibility of trickery in the case of the small specimen submitted to Agnello, it is incredible that the fraud should have been successfully repeated when the two hundred tons of mineral brought back by the second expedition came to be tested. The mineral undoubtedly contained gold, but not enough to pay for the carriage and working.
COSSACK CONQUEST OF SIBERIA
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Translated by Chauncey C. Starkweather.
ASSASSINATION OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE
DIVISION OF THE NETHERLANDS
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Francis, Duke of Anjou, the French accomplice of Catherine de' Medici in persecution of the Protestants, is elsewhere described by Motley as "the most despicable personage who had ever entered the Netherlands."
NAMING OF VIRGINIA: FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIANS
THE LOST COLONY
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Middle.
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Either way.
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The site of the colony established in the following year, 1585.
DRAKE CAPTURES CARTAGENA
HE "SINGES THE KING OF SPAIN'S BEARD" AT CADIZ
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In the official report the Spaniards admit the loss of twenty-four ships valued at one hundred seventy-two thousand ducats. This, it would seem, was all they dared tell the King.
DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
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Ranke.
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Strype, cited in Southey: Naval History.
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Copy of contemporary letter in the Harleian Collection, quoted by Southey.
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Hakluyt: Voyages.
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Strype, and the notes to the Life of Drake, in the Biographia Britannica.
HENRY OF NAVARRE ACCEPTS CATHOLICISM
HE IS ACKNOWLEDGED KING OF FRANCE
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The Marchioness de Monceaux, who, D'Aubigné says, acted this part in the hope of becoming queen herself if Henry should be declared king.
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Henry IV was always sensible that his abjuration would expose him to great dangers, which made him write in this manner to Mademoiselle d'Estrées: "On Sunday I shall take a dangerous leap. While I am writing to you I have a hundred troublesome people about me, which makes me detest St. Denis as much as you do Mantes," etc.
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Another act of equal validity, by which Henry IV acknowledged the pope's authority, is the declaration which he made after his conversion, that it was necessity and the confusion of affairs which obliged him to receive absolution from the prelates of France rather than from those of the Holy Father.
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It was Renauld, or Beaune de Samblançai, Archbishop of Bourges, who received the King's abjuration; the Cardinal of Bourbon, who was not a priest, and nine other bishops assisted at the ceremony. Henry IV entering the Chapel of St. Denis, the Archbishop said to him, "Who are you?" Henry replied, "I am the King." "What is your request?" said the Archbishop. "To be received," said the King, "into the pale of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church." "Do you desire it?" added the prelate. "Yes, I do desire it," replied the King. Then, kneeling, he said: "I protest and swear, in the presence of Almighty God, to live and die in the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion; to protect and defend it against all its enemies, at the hazard of my blood and life, renouncing all heresies contrary to this Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church." He afterward put this same confession in writing into the hands of the Archbishop, who presented him his ring to kiss, giving him absolution with a loud voice, during which Te Deum was sung, etc.
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