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Ancient Carthage Author: Rollin, Charles Part Two The Carthaginians were not discouraged by their late disaster, but continued their enterprises on Sicily. Mago, their general, and one of the suffetes, lost a great battle, in which he was slain. The Carthaginian chiefs demanded a peace, which was gr ...

Judas Maccabaeus Liberates JudeaAuthor: JosephusJudas Maccabaeus Liberates JudeaB.C. 165IntroductionThe noble-minded Judas Maccabaeus was the hero of Jewish independence -the deliverer of Judea and Judaism during the bloody persecutions of theSyrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, in the second century B....

England Under Edward The First, Called Longshanks Author: Dickens, Charles Chapter XVI. It was now the year of our Lord 1272; and Prince Edward. the heir to the throne, being away in the Holy Land, knew nothing of his father's death. The barons, however, proclaimed him king, immediately after the...

Quotations of Thomas Jefferson "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. . . ."Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 "it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free."Thomas Jefferson ...

Africa And The Africans In The Age Of The Atlantic Slave TradeAuthor: Stearns, Peter N.;Adas, Michael;Schwartz, Stuart B.Date: 1992The African DiasporaThe slave trade was the means by which the history of the Americas andAfrica became linked and a principal way in which African societies were drawni...

James Madison: Written by: Irving Brant: Member, Advisory Board, James Madison Papers, University of Chicago. Council Member, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1959–62. Author of James Madison (6 vol.) and others. b. March 16 [March 5, Old Style], 1751, Port Conway , Va. [ U.S. ] d. J...

The Elamites Edited By: R. A. Guisepi The Iranian Plateau did not experience the rise of urban, literate civilization in the late 4th and early 3rd millennia on the Mesopotamian pattern but the lowland Khuzestan did. It was the Elamite Civilization. Geographically, Elam included more than Khuzestan...

Livingstone's African Discoveries Author Livingstone, David; Hughes, Thomas By Thomas Hughes Before the middle of 1852 Livingstone was ready to start on the journey which resulted in the opening of routes from Central Africa to the West and East coasts; but the way was still beset with difficultie...

MacARTHUR, Douglas (1880-1964). A symbol of American determination and fighting ability, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, by his defense of the Philippines, slowed the advance of the Japanese long enough to give the United States a few crucial weeks to prepare for World War II. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese ...

Teutonic Knights: Their Organization And History Title: Teutonic Knights: Their Organization And History Author: Woodhouse, F. C. 1190 - 1809 Scarcely less renowned than the Knights Templars, the Teutonic Knights carried the spirit and traditions of the great military religious orders of the Middle...

WARFARE Edited By: Robert Guisepi "Every age, however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown." This judgment by the historian Edward Gibbon has been echoed in the 20th century by one of the great generals of World War II, Sir Bernard Law Montgom ...

Ancient Rome GLADIATOR. Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permission) "Remember, Ro...