Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Illustrated Lecture on English History. Places associated with the Norman Conquest: Rouen, Falaise, Caen, Bayeux, Hastings, Battle Abbey, Winchester, and the Tower of London. Professor Cooke. Lecture room of Boylston Hall...
Tuesday, March 3.- Places associated with the Norman Conquest: Rouen, Falaise, Caen, Bayeaux, Hastings, Battle Abbey, Winchester, and the Tower of London...
...California papers are continued with articles on "Fremont in the Conquest of California" by General John Bidwell, an old pioneer of '41, who has already contributed a couple of papers to the same series; and on "The Discovery of Gold in California," by John S. Hittell. In the department of Californiana there is also an account of the gold discovery by James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold at Sutter's Mill, and a portrait is given of him in Mr. Hittell's article...
...indebted of course to the Bible for much of Jewish history. It goes back about four thousand years from our day. The Babylonians in this period were permeated with a spirit of conquest and roved over much of Westem Asia. Their life is clear to us from their records from 1000 B. C. down. About 800 B. C. the Assyrians also started out on a western campaign. Abeut 770 B. C. there came to their throne one of their greatest kings. A hundred years later the kingdom was in pieces...
...avert the threatening invasion. Again and again English and Spanish ambassadors met, but to no purpose. When Admirable Blake inflicted a severe blow upon the Spanish-navy, the queen immediately sent messages of apology to Spain, although the very ships that Drake had destroyed were intended for England's conquest. The people of England, however, were far more ready and willing to face the danger. In spite of the meagre appropriations of the government a fleet was built and an army organized...