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Hero Tales from History

by Smith Burnham

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Mighty Men of Long Ago
  3. 3David, the Giant-Killer King
  4. 4Homer, the Hero Poet of Ancient Greece
  5. 5Socrates, the “Grand Old Man” of Greece
  6. 6Alexander, the Boy Who Conquered the World
  7. 7Four Familiar Sayings of Julius Cæsar
  8. 8Heroes of the Middle Ages
  9. 9Alfred, the Greatest of the Saxon Kings
  10. 10How William of Normandy Conquered a Kingdom
  11. 11Lion-Hearted Richard and Wolf-Hearted John
  12. 12Joan of Arc and the Lilies of France
  13. 13Four Leaders in the Old World
  14. 14How Cromwell Changed Places With the King
  15. 15Napoleon, the Corsican Boy Who Ruled Europe
  16. 16Nelson, the Hero of Trafalgar
  17. 17Discoverers and Explorers
  18. 18Magellan, the Man of the Straits
  19. 19Cortes, the Conqueror
  20. 20De Soto, a Gold Hunter in Southern Swamps
  21. 21Sir Francis Drake, England’s First Great Sailor
  22. 22Sir Walter Raleigh, the Favorite of Good Queen Bess
  23. 23Henry Hudson, the Man Who Put Himself on the Map
  24. 24La Salle and the Mouth of the Mississippi
  25. 25Livingstone, the White Man of the Dark Continent
  26. 26Peary, a Hero of the Great White North
  27. 27Colonists and Pioneers
  28. 28Champlain, the Father of New France
  29. 29Myles Standish, the Brave Little Captain of Plymouth
  30. 30John Winthrop, a Puritan Maker of Massachusetts
  31. 31Roger Williams, a Minister Who Lived the Golden Rule
  32. 32Lord Baltimore, Calvert and Claiborne, the Three Fathers of Maryland
  33. 33William Penn, the Founder of Pennsylvania
  34. 34Patriots of the Revolution
  35. 35Nathan Hale, Who Spoke the Bravest Words in History
  36. 36Lafayette, the Boy Hero of Two Worlds
  37. 37The Immortal Reply of John Paul Jones
  38. 38General Marion, the Carolina “Swamp Fox”
  39. 39Winners of the West
  40. 40Daniel Boone, the Great Indian Fighter of Kentucky
  41. 41George Rogers Clark, the Young Hero With a Great Idea
  42. 42Lewis and Clark, Two Adventurers in the Far West
  43. 43Davy Crockett, the Hero of the Alamo
  44. 44Famous Inventors
  45. 45“Fulton’s Folly”
  46. 46How Morse Sent Letters by Lightning
  47. 47Cyrus H. M’Cormick and the Story of the Reaper
  48. 48Elias Howe and His Sewing Machine
  49. 49Edison, the Wizard of Many Inventions
  50. 50The Greatest Americans
  51. 51George Washington and His Mother
  52. 52Alexander Hamilton, the Orphan Boy From the West Indies
  53. 53Thomas Jefferson, the Father of Democracy
  54. 54Andrew Jackson, America’s Most Popular Hero
  55. 55Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Three Great Champions in Congress
  56. 56The Kind Heart of Abraham Lincoln
  57. 57Ulysses S. Grant, the General Who Hated War
  58. 58The Noble Soul of Robert E. Lee
  59. 59Davy Farragut, the Hero of Mobile Bay
  60. 60The Strenuous Life of Roosevelt
  61. 61Clara Barton, “The Angel of the Battlefield”
  62. 62Henry W. Longfellow, the American Children’s Poet
  63. 63Key to Pronunciation

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