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With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, maintained by Prussia--then a small and comparatively insignificant kingdom--against Russia, Austria, and France simultaneously, who were aided also by the forces of most of the minor principalities of Germany. The population of Prussia was not more than five millions, while that of the Allies considerably exceeded a hundred millions...
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Under Drake's Flag: A Tale Of The Spanish Main
An exciting tale set on the high seas, in a period ruled by exploration, with the ever-present dangers of nature and the weather, together with pirates of the famed Spanish Main.
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The Boy Knight
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In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
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For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
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Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
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By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson
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The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century
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At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
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The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
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With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War
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The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain
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Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
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With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
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A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
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With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent
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Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
When young Frank is falsely accused of a crime, he leaves England to seek adventure in America. He joins a wagon train heading west to the California gold fields, but as he is soon to find out, the West is more than just adventure! Braving Indians, wolves, and other dangers, Frank is determined to strike it rich - and perhaps someday clear his name and return home.
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Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers
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The Queen's Cup
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By: George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) |
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Bunyip Land
Joe Carstairs is a boy on a farm in Australia. His father is a keen naturalist who, some years before had set off for New Guinea in search of specimens, and never been heard of again. Joe is old enough to mount a search expedition, and takes with him a local doctor and an aboriginal worker on his farm. They find themselves joined by a stowaway, Jimmy, whose father is a squatter (farmer) nearby, together with his dog, Gyp.This team sets off, arrive in New Guinea, hire some more porters, and travel guided by some sixth sense straight to where Mr...
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Our Soldier Boy
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Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others
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Burr Junior
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Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers
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Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills
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The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains
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The Powder Monkey
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The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range
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Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp
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The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens
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The King's Sons
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Peril Finders
In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are failing. A prospector arrives and tells stories of ancient cities where there is a lot of gold. He then dies. Some of the settlers decide to go and search for the gold. They have long distances to travel and meet many challenges along the way. They eventually reach one of these cities and find evidence that it has been abandoned by invaders hundreds or thousands of years ago...
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Glyn Severn's Schooldays
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Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel
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A Young Hero
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The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor
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Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
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The Black Bar
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A Dash from Diamond City
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Cutlass and Cudgel
Based around the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a tale of smuggling in the early 19th century off the coast of Wessex. The midshipman of the cutter is taken hostage by the smugglers and is befriended by a farm-boy, son of one of the smugglers. His friendship is rudely rebuffed, the midshipman eventually escapes and the farm-boy gets his long-held dream of becoming a seaman on an Excise vessel.
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Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land
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Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig
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Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days
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To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze
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Middy and Ensign
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Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop
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The New Forest Spy
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Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas
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The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
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The Golden Magnet
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In the Mahdi's Grasp
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Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle
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Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story
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Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
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Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea
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The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
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Marcus: the Young Centurion
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In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"
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First in the Field A Story of New South Wales
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Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
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In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First
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To The West
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The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
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Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden
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Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai
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Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
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