The Red True Story Book

About this eBook

Editor

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Lindy Walsh, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

27603

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27603

Release Date

December 23, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.THE — RED TRUE STORY BOOK
3. 3.WORKS BY ANDREW LANG. — THE RED TRUE STORY BOOK — EDITED BY
4. 4.ANDREW LANG
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — PLATES — WOODCUTS IN TEXT
8. 8.WILSON'S LAST FIGHT — 'They were men whose fathers were men'
9. 9.THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOAN THE MAID — I — THE FAIRIES' TREE — II — A PAGE OF HISTORY — III — THE CHILDHOOD OF JOAN THE MAIDEN — THE RAID OF DOMREMY — THE CALLING OF JOAN THE MAID — HOW JOAN THE MAID WENT TO VAUCOULEURS — HOW JOAN THE MAID WENT AGAIN TO VAUCOULEURS — HOW JOAN THE MAID RODE TO CHINON — HOW JOAN THE MAID SHOWED A SIGN TO THE KING — HOW JOAN THE MAID WAS EXAMINED AT POICTIERS — HOW JOAN THE MAID RODE TO RELIEVE ORLEANS — HOW JOAN THE MAID ENTERED ORLEANS — HOW JOAN THE MAID TOOK JARGEAU FROM THE ENGLISH — HOW THE MAID DEFEATED THE ENGLISH AT PATHAY, AND OF THE STRANGE GUIDE — HOW THE MAID HAD THE KING CROWNED AT REIMS — IV — HOW THE MAID RODE TO PARIS — HOW THE MAID WAS WOUNDED IN ATTACKING PARIS, AND HOW THE KING WOULD NOT LET THE ASSAULT BEGIN AGAIN — HOW THE MAID AND HER FAIR DUKE WERE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER — HOW MARVELLOUSLY THE MAID TOOK SAINT-PIERRE-LE-MOUSTIER — HOW THE MAID WAITED WEARILY AT COURT — HOW THE MAID MET AN IMPOSTOR — HOW THE MAID'S VOICES PROPHESIED OF HER TAKING — HOW THE MAID TOOK FRANQUET D'ARRAS — HOW THE MAID FOUGHT HER LAST FIGHT — HOW THE MAID LEAPED FROM THE TOWER OF BEAUREVOIR — V — HOW THE MAID WAS TRIED AND CONDEMNED, AND HOW BRAVELY SHE DIED
10. 10.HOW THE BASS WAS HELD FOR KING JAMES
11. 11.THE CROWNING OF INES DE CASTRO
12. 12.THE STORY OF ORTHON
13. 13.HOW GUSTAVUS VASA WON HIS KINGDOM
14. 14.MONSIEUR DE BAYARD'S DUEL
15. 15.STORY OF GUDBRAND OF THE DALES [31]
16. 16.SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE
17. 17.THE STORY OF MOLLY PITCHER
18. 18.THE VOYAGES, DANGEROUS ADVENTURES, AND IMMINENT ESCAPES OF CAPTAIN RICHARD FALCONER [32]
19. 19.MARBOT'S MARCH
20. 20.EYLAU. THE MARE LISETTE
21. 21.HOW MARBOT CROSSED THE DANUBE
22. 22.THE PITEOUS DEATH OF GASTON, SON OF THE COUNT OF FOIX
23. 23.ROLF STAKE [34]
24. 24.THE WRECK OF THE 'WAGER'
25. 25.PETER WILLIAMSON [35]
26. 26.A WONDERFUL VOYAGE
27. 27.THE PITCAIRN ISLANDERS
28. 28.A RELATION OF THREE YEARS' SUFFERING OF ROBERT EVERARD UPON THE ISLAND OF ASSADA, NEAR MADAGASCAR, IN A VOYAGE TO INDIA, IN THE YEAR 1686 [36]
29. 29.THE FIGHT AT SVOLDER ISLAND ( a.d. 1000)
30. 30.THE DEATH OF HACON THE GOOD ( a.d. 961)
31. 31.PRINCE CHARLIE'S WAR — I — THE BOYHOOD OF PRINCE CHARLIE — II — PRINCE CHARLIE'S LANDING — III — THE MARCH SOUTH — IV — EDINBURGH — V — PRESTONPANS — VI — THE MARCH TO DERBY — VII — THE RETREAT — VIII — IN THE HIGHLANDS — IX — CULLODEN
32. 32.THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPLORING EXPEDITION
33. 33.THE STORY OF EMUND ( a.d. 1020)
34. 34.THE MAN IN WHITE
35. 35.THE ADVENTURES OF 'THE BULL OF EARLSTOUN'
36. 36.THE STORY OF GRISELL BAILLIE'S SHEEP'S HEAD
37. 37.THE CONQUEST OF PERU — THE YOUTH OF PIZARRO — THE EMPIRE OF THE INCAS — RELIGION OF THE PERUVIANS — PIZARRO'S EXPEDITION — THE CHOICE OF PIZARRO — PIZARRO GOES TO SPAIN AND RETURNS — PIZARRO MARCHES TO MEET THE INCA — PIZARRO AND THE INCA — THE CAPTIVITY OF THE INCA — THE INCA'S RANSOM — FOOTNOTES:

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