French History for English Children

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By Sarah Brook

Published 1881
Macmillan

902 pages

Original from the New York Public Library

Digitized Mar 28, 2007

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Poitiers - Page 181
shown so much kindness and politeness to King John of France after the battle of Poitiers, became cruel to his enemies and severe to his subjects ...
more pages: 167 176 180 192 196

Toulouse - Page 111
Louis then turned towards France, hoping to come back the next year and finish the war by taking Toulouse, the chief town of Languedoc, ...
more pages: 103 106 226

Jerusalem - Page 86
The army was much hindered by the crowds of women and children who had insisted on going with their husbands and fathers to Jerusalem. ...
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Damietta - Page 116
Damietta; for the Saracen army, which was waiting on the shore, tried in vain to prevent them from landing. But having settled themselves at Damietta, ...
more pages: 117

Paris - Page 319
She joined in plots against her son and his friends, and at last he sent her away from Paris altogether, and exiled her to a distant part of France.
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Madrid - Page 250
The king was carried from one prison to another, and at last to Madrid in Spain. As soon as he was made prisoner, Francis wrote to his mother a letter ...
more pages: 251 356 438

Amsterdam - Page 344
There was a little town near Amsterdam where the chief sluices were. One of the French generals was told to take four thousand men and march towards ...
more pages: 345

Milan - Page 249
Charles tried to take Milan and the part of Italy which Francis had won by his first victory, away from the French king. ...
more pages: 231

Amiens - Page 429
Soon after this battle a peace was signed at Amiens between England and France. There were great rejoicings at this event in both countries; and now, ...
more pages: 430

Leipzig - Page 441
The people of the town of Leipzig were able to watch it from their steeples. At last Napoleon retreated. His troops marched through Leipzig, ...

Rome - Page 36
Rome and its bishop against some fierce Italian enemies called the Lombards. He drove back the Lombards, took from them some of the land which they ...
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Beziers - Page 104
They attacked and took a town called Beziers, which they burned, and murdered every one in it. They then took 'prisoner the Viscount of Beziers, ...

Marseilles - Page 400
they resolved to rise up in a body the next day, with the soldiers from Marseilles to help them, and to attack the Palace of the Tuileries, make.

Moscow - Page 439
going on with the plan they had already begun, and the French followed them till at last Napoleon was within sight of Moscow. ...
more pages: 438

London - Page 107
They all turned against Louis; the city of London alone remained faithful to him. A great battle was fought at.
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Edessa - Page 84
The Turks made use of the opportunity, suddenly attacked a large town named Edessa, killed many of the people who lived in it, and took away all their ...

Naples - Page 234
At first everything seemed to go well with him, and he and the King of Spain, who was helping him, took Naples and some other Italian towns from the ...
more pages: 228

Toulon - Page 423
Soon after this he was sent to help in a siege that was going on against the town of Toulon, of which the English had made themselves masters. ...

Berlin - Page 436
Napoleon marched to Berlin, and treated the Prussians not only with great harshness and cruelty, but with great meanness, in robbing them of pictures, ...
more pages: 349

Vienna - Page 437
Napoleon had a short war with Austria, in which he won the battle of Wagram, and took Vienna a second time. He made a peace with Austria, ...
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Damascus - Page 87
Louis, on his way home, attacked a Turkish town named Damascus, and besieged it for some weeks, but then found that he was not strong enough to take ...

Dreux - Page 275
This was the battle of Dreux. Before the end of the year the Duke of Guise was murdered by a Huguenot enemy, as he was making ready.

Portsmouth - Page 156
He at once sent orders that all his ships should join him at Portsmouth, and that every one should be ready to fight if necessary. ...

Copenhagen - Page 429
The English, under Lord Nelson, attacked the Danish fleet at Copenhagen, and entirely defeated them in a battle known as the Battle of the Baltic. ...

Venice - Page 235
There was one more Italian war; this time France joined with several others of the Italian states against one state named Venice, and, as usual, ...

Rouen - Page 101
He had been brought up in France, cared more about his French than his English dominions, and considered Rouen the capital of his king-dom. ...

Saint Louis - Page 121
Most of what we know about St. Louis is told us by one of his barons, who was his faithful friend and servant all through his life, and who went with ...
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Saint Denis - Page 416
One of the places attacked by the Revolutionists was Saint Denis, where the kings of France had been buried. Their tombs were opened, and many of the ...

Madras - Page 371
They had two famous generals, who conquered Madras and other places, driving the English out of them. The English took nearly all these places away ...

Waterloo - Page 444
The battle of Waterloo was fought on the 18th of June 1815, and there the French army, after fighting bravely for a whole day, was entirely beaten, ...