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Wonderful Escapes

by Frédéric Bernard

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Author
Bernard, Frédéric, 1820-1868
Title
Wonderful escapes
Credits
Produced by deaurider, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
Subject
Escapes
Category
Text
eBook-No.
52304
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52304
Release Date
June 11, 2016
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — WONDERFUL ESCAPES.
  4. 4.ARISTOMENES THE MESSENIAN. ABOUT 684 B.C.
  5. 5.HEGESISTRATUS. ABOUT 475 B.C.
  6. 6.DEMETRIUS SOTER. 162 B.C.
  7. 7.MARIUS. 85 B.C.
  8. 8.ATTALUS. SIXTH CENTURY.
  9. 9.RICHARD, DUKE OF NORMANDY. TENTH CENTURY.
  10. 10.LOUIS II., COUNT OF FLANDERS. 1347.
  11. 11.THE DUKE OF ALBANY. FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
  12. 12.JAMES V., KING OF SCOTLAND. SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
  13. 13.SECUNDUS CURION. SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
  14. 14.BENVENUTO CELLINI. 1538.
  15. 15.MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. 1568.
  16. 16.CAUMONT DE LA FORCE. 1572.
  17. 17.CHARLES DE GUISE. 1591.
  18. 18.MARY DE’ MEDICIS. 1619.
  19. 19.GROTIUS. 1621.
  20. 20.ISAAC ARNAULD. 1635.
  21. 21.THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT. 1648.
  22. 22.CARDINAL DE RETZ. 1654.
  23. 23.QUIQUÉRAN DE BEAUJEU. 1671.
  24. 24.CHARLES II. 1680.
  25. 25.BLANCHE GAMOND. 1687.
  26. 26.JEAN BART AND THE CHEVALIER DE FORBIN. 1689.
  27. 27.DUGUAY-TROUIN. 1694.
  28. 28.THE ABBÉ COUNT DE BUCQUOY. 1700-1702.
  29. 29.FORSTER, MACINTOSH, ROBERT KEITH, NITHSDALE, AND OTHER CHIEFS OF THE JACOBITE INSURRECTION. 1715.
  30. 30.CHARLES EDWARD. 1746.
  31. 31.STANISLAUS LECZINSKI. 1734.
  32. 32.BARON TRENCK. 1746-1763.
  33. 33.CASSANOVA DE SEINGALT. 1757.
  34. 34.LATUDE. 1750-1784.
  35. 35.BENIOWSKI. 1771.
  36. 36.ESCAPE OF TWELVE PRIESTS, SAVED BY GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE. 1792.
  37. 37.DE CHATEAUBRUN. 1794.
  38. 38.SYDNEY SMITH. 1797.
  39. 39.PICHEGRU, RAMEL, BARTHELEMY, DELARUE, ETC. 1797.
  40. 40.COLONEL DE RICHEMONT.
  41. 41.CAPTAIN GRIVEL. 1810.
  42. 42.LAVALETTE. 1815.
  43. 43.GIOVANNI ARRIVABENE, UGONI, AND SCALVINI. 1822.
  44. 44.MARRAST, GUINARD, GODEFROI CAVAIGNAC, AND OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS. July, 1834.
  45. 45.MONSIEUR RUFIN PIOTROWSKI. 1846.
  46. 46.ESCAPE OF PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON FROM THE FORTRESS OF HAM.
  47. 47.THE CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF THE FENIAN HEAD CENTRE, JAMES STEPHENS. — FOOTNOTES:

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