Historic Boyhoods
by Rupert Sargent Holland
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952
- Credits
- E-text prepared by David Garcia, Graeme Mackreth, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library ( kdl.kyvl.org/)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- CT: History: Biography
- Subject
- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 24354
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24354
- Release Date
- January 18, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.E-text prepared by David Garcia, Graeme Mackreth, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library ( http://kdl.kyvl.org/ ) — Historic Boyhoods
- 2.By RUPERT S. HOLLAND
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.I — Christopher Columbus — The Boy of Genoa: 1446(?)-1506
- 6.II — Michael Angelo — The Boy of the Medici Gardens: 1475-1564
- 7.III — Walter Raleigh — The Boy of Devon: 1552-1618
- 8.IV — Peter the Great — The Boy of the Kremlin: 1672-1725
- 9.V — Frederick the Great — The Boy of Potsdam: 1712-1788
- 10.VI — George Washington — The Boy of the Old Dominion: 1732-1799
- 11.VII — Daniel Boone — The Boy of the Frontier: 1735-1820
- 12.VIII — John Paul Jones — The Boy of the Atlantic: 1747-1792
- 13.IX — Mozart — The Boy of Salzburg: 1756-1791
- 14.X — Lafayette — The Boy of Versailles: 1757-1834
- 15.XI — Horatio Nelson — The Boy of the Channel Fleet: 1758-1805
- 16.XII — Robert Fulton — The Boy of the Conestoga: 1765-1815
- 17.XIII — Andrew Jackson — The Boy of the Carolinas: 1767-1845
- 18.XIV — Napoleon Bonaparte — The Boy of Brienne: 1769-1821
- 19.XV — Walter Scott — The Boy of the Canongate: 1771-1832
- 20.XVI — James Fenimore Cooper — The Boy of Otsego Hall: 1789-1851
- 21.XVII — John Ericsson — The Boy of the Göta Canal: 1803-1889
- 22.XVIII — Garibaldi — The Boy of the Mediterranean: 1807-1882
- 23.XIX — Abraham Lincoln — The Boy of the American Wilderness: 1809-1865
- 24.XX — Charles Dickens — The Boy of the London Streets: 1812-1870
- 25.XXI — Otto von Bismarck — The Boy of Göttingen: 1815-1898
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