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John Abbott

Hortense. Makers of History SeriesJohn S. C. Abbott Hortense / Makers of History Series PREFACE The French Revolution was perhaps as important an event as has occurred in the history of nations. It was a drama in three acts. The first was the Revolution itself, properly so called, with its awful ...

Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of KentuckyJohn S. C. Abbott Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky PREFACE The name of Daniel Boone is a conspicuous one in the annals of our country. And yet there are but few who are familiar with the events of his wonderful career, or who have formed a correct estimat...

David Crockett: His Life and AdventuresJohn S. C. Abbott David Crockett: His Life and Adventures PREFACE David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerf...

The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly IllustratedJohn S. C. Abbott The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated CHAPTER I. RESPONSIBILITY In large cities there are so many persons guilty of crimes, that it is necessary to have a court sit every d...

Napoleon BonaparteJohn S. C. Abbott Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon, finding his proffers of peace rejected by England with contumely and scorn, and declined by Austria, now prepared, with his wonted energy, to repel the assaults of the allies. As he sat in his cabinet at the Tuileries, the thunders ...

The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present PowerJohn S. C. Abbott The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power PREFACE The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the "History of Napoleon Bonaparte," and "The French Revolution of 1789," have necessarily made h...

Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit CarsonJohn S. C. Abbott Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson PREFACE It is a prominent object of this volume to bring to light the wild adventures of the pioneers of this continent, in the solitudes of the mountains, the prairies and the f...

The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present TimeJohn S. C. Abbott The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time PREFACE The world is now too busy to read voluminous history. The interminable details of battles, and the petty intrigues of courtiers and mist...

Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New AmsterdamJohn S. C. Abbott Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam PREFACE It is impossible to understand the very remarkable character and career of Peter Stuyvesant, the last, and by far the most illustrious, of the Dutch gover...

Louis XIVJohn S. C. Abbott Louis XIV. Makers of History Series PREFACE We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and sins, which the world sees not, and of which it knows but little. None lead this dou...