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Title:
Heroes of Britain in
Peace and War (1890-1895) Vol 1.
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Author: Edwin
HODDER (M: 1837 Dec 13 - 1904 Mar 1)
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Published: Cassell, Petter,
Galpin & Co.: London, [1878-80.]
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Contents:
THE SLAVE TRADE. John Newton, Alexander Falconbridge, HEROES OF THE SLAVE TRADE ABOLITION. Opinion of York and Talbot, Granville Sharp, The Ship Zong, Clarkson and his Prize Essay, Wilberforce, Thomas Foweli Buxton, Zachary Macaulay EFFORTS FOR THE EXTINCTION OF SLAVERY.Expedition of the Khedive of Egypt, Sir Samuel Baker, Abou Saood, Kabba Rega THE GOSPEL IN SOUTH AFRICA. The Moravian Brethren, Vanderkemp, John Campbell, William Threlfall, Jacob Links, Joannes Jagger, Robert Moffat, David Livingstone COLLIERS AND COLLIERIES. The Barnsley Colliery Explosion, 1866, Parkin Jeffcock, Scene in the Rhondda Valley, 1877, Story of George Jenkins PERILS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. Sir James Young Simpson, Peter of Abano, Cecco d'Ascoli, Columbus, Magalhaens, Copernicus, Bruno, Roger Bacon, Boyer, Jenner, Palissy. Pye Smith, Sir Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, John Macgillivray, Dr. Anstie LIFE - BOAT HEROES. Lionel Luckin, The Royal National Life-boat Institution, The Mincing Lane Life-boat, Wreck of the Fusilier and Demerara ELDRED POTTINGER, THE HERO OF HERAT. The Brothers Zeman, Mahmoud, Soojah, Eldred Pottinger, Mahomedan Syud, Yakoob Beg, Shah Kamran, Shah of Persia HEROES OF CABUL IN THE FIRST AFGHAN WAR., Dost Mahomed, The Army of the Indus, The Bolan Pass, Siege of Ghuznee, Captain Thomson, Colonel Dennie, Shah Soojah, Sir Alexander Burnes, Sir W. MacNaghten, Akbar Khan, Khoord-Cabul Pass HEROES OF THE FIRST AFGHAN WAR. Jellalabad, Sir Robert Sale, George Broadfoot, The Great Earthquake, Henry Havelock, General Pollock, Sir Robert and Lady Sale HEROES OF THE VICTORIA CROSS.-CRIMEA. Sergeant-Major John Grieve, Battle of the Alma, Great Redoubt, Death of Young Anstruther, Luke O'Connor, Lieutenant Loyd-Lindsay, Battle of Inkerman, Sir Charles Russell, Sandbag Battery,Captain Peel, John Sullivan A PRISON HERO . John Howard, Bedford Gaol PRISON HEROINES . Newgate Gaol, Elizabeth Fry, Anna Buxton, Sarah Martin, Yarmouth Gaol EARLY ARCTIC HEROES. Sir Hugh Willoughby, Sir Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, Behring, Sir Edward Parry, The Croker Mountains, Wreck of the Fury, Captain Lyon, Mr. Felix Booth, Captain John Ross SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND HIS COMPANIONS. Franklin's Early Passion for the Sea, The Coppermine River, Dr. Richardson, The Murder of Hood, The Erebus and Terror THE FATE OF FRANKLIN AND HIS COMPANIONS. Beechey Island, The Eskimo of Boothia Felix, Hobson and Allen Young SEARCHES FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. Captain M'Clure, Cape Horn, North-West Passage, Sergeant Woon, AERONAUTS. Joseph and Etienne Montgolfler, Gas Balloon, Sadler's Attempt to Cross the Irish Channel, Glaisher's Travels in the Air, THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. Krapf and Rebmann, Captain Speke, Burton, Rumanika, King M'tesa, The Victoria Nyanza, Gondokoro, Baker, Latookas, Kamrasi AN AFRICAN HERO—CAMERON. Death of Young Moffat, Benguela VICTORIA CROSS HEROES.—INDIA. Mutiny at Delhi, Willoughby, Sattara, Lieutenant W. A. Kerr, Dinapoor, Mr. Wake, Vicars Boyle, Arrah, Private Dempsey, Mr. Ross Lewis, Mangles, Mr. M'Donell, Major Tombs, Major Renny, March of Havelock, Young Havelock at Lucknow, Kavanagh |
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Language:
English
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