{"product_id":"2940013845152","title":"STRANGE STORIES FROM HISTORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                           PAGE\u003cbr\u003eHISTORY STORIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE STORY OF THE NEGRO FORT                                13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A WAR FOR AN ARCHBISHOP                                    26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS                         38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE CANOE FIGHT                                            55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE BATTLE OF LAKE BORGNE                                  67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE BATTLE IN THE DARK                                     77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE TROUBLESOME BURGHERS                                   88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE DEFENCE OF ROCHELLE                                    99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE SAD STORY OF A BOY KING                               111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  TWO OBSCURE HEROES                                        120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE CHARGE OF THE HOUNDS                                  130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE STORY OF A WINTER CAMPAIGN                            140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  YOUNG WASHINGTON IN THE WOODS                             151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE STORY OF CATHERINE                                    163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE VIRGINIA WIFE-MARKET                                  175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIOGRAPHY STORIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BOYHOOD OF DANIEL WEBSTER                                 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE SCULLION WHO BECAME A SCULPTOR                        193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BOYHOOD OF WILLIAM CHAMBERS                               200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  HOW A BOY HIRED OUT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT                  206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD                            212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A PRINCE WHO WOULD NOT STAY DEAD                          228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Breakfast and Battle_                                              23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Vladimir Besieging the City Containing his Archbishop_             35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Cavalier Personating the Lieutenant of the Count Broglio_          47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _With a Single Blow he Knocked over the Indian with whom\u003cbr\u003e       Austill was Struggling_                                        63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Boarding the Gun-boats_                                            73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _General Jackson at New Orleans_                                    79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _The Burghers Prepare to Defend their City_                         95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Richelieu Surveying the Works at Rochelle_                        103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _The Parting between King Richard II. and Queen Isabella_          117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Martin Preaching to the People on the Duty of Fighting_           125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"_Just at the Moment when Matters were at their Worst, he\u003cbr\u003e       Rode up_\"                                                     137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Capture of the Dutch fleet by the Soldiers of the French\u003cbr\u003e       Republic_                                                     149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Washington as a Surveyor_                                         157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"_She Went Boldly into his Tent_\"                                  171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"_'To the End of the Twelfth Book of the Æneid,' answered\u003cbr\u003e       the 'Idle' Boy in Triumph_\"                                   189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STORY OF THE NEGRO FORT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the war of 1812-14, between Great Britain and the United States,\u003cbr\u003ethe weak Spanish Governor of Florida--for Florida was then Spanish\u003cbr\u003eterritory--permitted the British to make Pensacola their base of\u003cbr\u003eoperations against us. This was a gross outrage, as we were at peace\u003cbr\u003ewith Spain at the time, and General Jackson, acting on his own\u003cbr\u003eresponsibility, invaded Florida in retaliation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the British at that time was an eccentric Irish officer, Colonel\u003cbr\u003eEdward Nichols, who enlisted and tried to make soldiers of a large\u003cbr\u003enumber of the Seminole Indians. In 1815, after the war was over, Colonel\u003cbr\u003eNichols again visited the Seminoles, who were disposed to be hostile to\u003cbr\u003ethe United States, as Colonel Nichols himself was, and made an\u003cbr\u003eastonishing treaty with them, in which an alliance, offensive and\u003cbr\u003edefensive, between Great Britain and the Seminoles, was agreed upon. We\u003cbr\u003ehad made peace with Great Britain a few months before, and yet this\u003cbr\u003eridiculous Irish colonel signed a treaty binding Great Britain to fight\u003cbr\u003eus whenever the Seminoles in the Spanish territory of Florida should see\u003cbr\u003efit to make a war! If this extraordinary performance had been all, it\u003cbr\u003ewould not have mattered so much, for the British government refused to\u003cbr\u003eratify the treaty; but it was not all.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073762246896,"sku":"2940013845152","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013845152_p0.jpg?v=1763595464","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013845152","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}