The Growth of the British Empire, Book V of the Story of the World

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HOW SPAIN LOST SOUTH AMERICA
1
THE HEROES OF INDEPENDENCE
5
THE GREEK
11
VICTORIAQUEEN OF ENGLAND
16
THE GREAT BOER TREK
21
THE STORY OF NATAL
27
THE STORY OF CANADA
33
THE FURTRADERS LAND
38
THE EMPIRE OF INDIA
170
THE INDIAN MUTINY 16 THE AWAKENING OF ITALY 17 KING OF UNITED ITALY 1
171
GORDONTHE HERO OF KHARTUM
176
5
183
THE STORY OF BRITISH WEST AFRICA
189
THE STORY OF UGANDA
195
THE FOUNDING OF RHODESIA
202
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA
207

THE WINNING OF THE WEST
42
A GREAT ARCTIC EXPEDITION
47
DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA
53
THE LAST KING OF FRANCE
60
LOUIS KOSSUTH AND HUNGARY
66
THE CRIMEAN
72
CONTENTS 24 LIVINGSTONES DISCOVERIES IN CENTRAL AFRICA
131
CHINAS LONG SLEEP
137
THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN
144
JAPANBRITAINS ALLY
150
RUSSIA +
154
THE ANNEXATION OF BURMA
159
THE STORY OF AFGHANISTAN
166
THE DOMINION OF CANADA
214
AUSTRALIA THE NEW NATION
219
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21
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FREEDOM FOR CUBA
226
REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA
231
WELDING THE EMPIRE
236
CITIZENSHIP
241
TEACHERS APPENDIX
246
INDEX
249
72
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THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION 103
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Página 76 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die ; Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
Página 79 - On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Página 43 - TO THE WEST ! TO THE WEST ! TO the West.! to the West ! to the land of the free, Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil.
Página 104 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Página 18 - It did ; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Página 22 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Página 101 - we will speak for freedom and against slavery, as long as the Constitution of our country guarantees free speech, until everywhere on this wide land the sun shall shine, and the rain shall fall, and the wind shall blow upon no man who goes forth to unrequited toil.
Página 55 - As we neared the sand-bank, I stood up and made signs to the natives to desist; but without success. I took up my gun, therefore, and cocking it, had already brought it down to a level. A few seconds more would have closed the life of the nearest of the savages.
Página 97 - Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel.

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