Strange Stories from History for Young People

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Author

Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911

Credits

E-text prepared by David Garcia, Annie McGuire, 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

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

World history -- Juvenile literature

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Text

eBook-No.

23887

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23887

Release Date

December 17, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by David Garcia, Annie McGuire, 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/ ) — STRANGE STORIES FROM HISTORY — FOR
2. 2.GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON — "RED EAGLE," "THE BIG BROTHER," "THE WRECK OF THE RED BIRD," — "THE SIGNAL BOYS," ETC. — Illustrated — NEW YORK — HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
3. 3.HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE SERIES. — Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00 per volume. — Published by Harper & Brothers, New York . — Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the — United States or Canada, on receipt of the price. — Copyright, 1885, by Harper & Brothers .
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.ILLUSTRATIONS.
7. 7.THE STORY OF THE NEGRO FORT.
8. 8.A WAR FOR AN ARCHBISHOP. — THE CURIOUS STORY OF VLADIMIR THE GREAT.
9. 9.THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS.
10. 10.THE CANOE FIGHT. — AN INCIDENT OF THE CREEK WAR.
11. 11.THE BATTLE OF LAKE BORGNE. — HOW THE BRITISH MADE A LANDING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
12. 12.THE BATTLE IN THE DARK. — HOW GENERAL JACKSON RECEIVED THE BRITISH.
13. 13.THE TROUBLESOME BURGHERS.
14. 14.THE DEFENCE OF ROCHELLE. — HOW THE CITY OF REFUGE FOUGHT FOR LIBERTY.
15. 15.THE SAD STORY OF A BOY KING.
16. 16.TWO OBSCURE HEROES. — HOW THE PARTISAN WARFARE IN THE CAROLINAS WAS BEGUN.
17. 17.THE CHARGE OF THE HOUNDS. — AN INCIDENT OF THE CREEK WAR.
18. 18.THE STORY OF A WINTER CAMPAIGN.
19. 19.YOUNG WASHINGTON IN THE WOODS. — THE STORY OF A PERILOUS JOURNEY.
20. 20.THE STORY OF CATHERINE.
21. 21.THE VIRGINIA WIFE-MARKET. — TWO SHIPLOADS OF SWEETHEARTS AND THE PRICES PAID FOR THEM.
22. 22.THE BOYHOOD OF DANIEL WEBSTER. [A]
23. 23.THE SCULLION WHO BECAME A SCULPTOR.
24. 24.THE BOYHOOD OF WILLIAM CHAMBERS.
25. 25.HOW A BOY WAS HIRED OUT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
26. 26.THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD.
27. 27.A PRINCE WHO WOULD NOT STAY DEAD. — THE END. — Footnotes.

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