Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII

Charles Morris

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Title: Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII

Author: Charles Morris

Release Date: October 3, 2006 [Ebook 19457]

Language: English

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORICAL TALES - THE ROMANCE OF REALITY - VOLUME VII***

CHARLES V. AT YUSTE.

Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality

By Charles Morris

Author of "Half-Hours with the Best American Authors," "Tales from the Dramatists," etc.

in fifteen volumes

Volume VII

London George Bell and Sons

1898

Copyright 1898, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright 1904, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright 1908, by J. B. Lippincott Company.

Contents

THE GOOD KING WAMBA. . . . . . . . . . . . . THE GREEK KING'S DAUGHTER. . . . . . . . . THE ENCHANTED PALACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . THE BATTLE OF THE GUADALETE. . . . . . . . THE TABLE OF SOLOMON. . . . . . . . . . . . . THE STORY OF QUEEN EXILONA. . . . . . . . . PELISTES, THE DEFENDER OF CORDOVA. . . . THE STRATAGEM OF THEODOMIR. . . . . . . . THE CAVE OF COVADONGA. . . . . . . . . . . . THE ADVENTURES OF A FUGITIVE PRINCE. . BERNARDO DEL CARPIO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUY DIAZ, THE CID CAMPEADOR. . . . . . . . LAS NAVAS DE TOLOSA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE KEY OF GRANADA. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . KING ABUL HASSAN AND THE ALCAIDE OF . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

GIBRALTAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE RIVAL KINGS OF GRANADA. . . . . . . . . THE KNIGHT OF THE EXPLOITS. . . . . . . . . . THE LAST SIGH OF THE MOOR. . . . . . . . . . THE RETURN OF COLUMBUS. . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . PETER THE CRUEL AND THE FREE COMPANIES. . . . . . . . .

THE GREAT CAPTAIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A KING IN CAPTIVITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE INVASION OF AFRICA. . . . . . . . . . . . . AN EMPEROR RETIRED FROM BUSINESS. . . . THE FATE OF A RECKLESS PRINCE. . . . . . . SPAIN'S GREATEST VICTORY AT SEA. . . . . . THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA. . . . . . . . . . . . THE CAUSES OF SPAIN'S DECADENCE. . . . . .

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Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII

THE LAST OF A ROYAL RACE. . . . . . . . . HENRY MORGAN AND THE BUCCANEERS. ELIZABETH FARNESE AND ALBERONI. . . THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. . . . . . . . . . . THE FALL OF A FAVORITE. . . . . . . . . . . THE SIEGE OF SARAGOSSA. . . . . . . . . . THE HERO OF THE CARLISTS. . . . . . . . . MANILA AND SANTIAGO. . . . . . . . . . .

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Illustrations

CHARLES V. AT YUSTE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOLEDO, WITH THE ALCAZAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . A COUNCIL OF THE VISIGOTHS. . . . . . . . . . . . . BARONIAL CASTLE IN OLD CASTILE. . . . . . . . . VALENCIA DEL CID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALFONSO VIII. HARANGUING HIS TROOPS UPON THE EVE OF BATTLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KING CHARLES'S WELL, ALHAMBRA. . . . . . . . . MOORISH KING PAYING HOMAGE TO THE KING OF CASTILE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RECEPTION OF COLUMBUS BY FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GONSALVO DE CORDOVA FINDING THE CORPSE OF THE DUKE OF NEMOURS. . . . . . . . . . . . . FRANCIS I. REFUSING THE DEMANDS OF THE EM- PEROR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIBERATION OF THE CAPTIVES FROM THE DUN- GEON OF ORAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES V. APPROACHING YUSTE. . . . . . . . . . THE ROYAL PALACE. MADRID. . . . . . . . . . . . . THE ALHAMBRA, OVERLOOKING GRANADA. . . . STREET IN OLD QUARTER OF PANAMA. . . . . . . . THE CITY OF SARAGOSSA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE ANNIHILATION OF THE SPANISH FLEET IN THE HARBOR OF MANILA. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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