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Rupert Sargent Holland
Historic Boyhoods
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066193010
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Fleet of Columbus Nearing America Walter Raleigh and the Fisherman of Devon Peter the Great Mrs. Washington Urges George Not to Enter the Navy Daniel Boone's First View of Kentucky Paul Jones Capturing the "Serapis" Mozart and His Sister Before Maria Theresa Lafayette Tells of His Wish to Aid America Nelson Boarding the "San Josef" Robert Fulton's First Experiment with Paddle Wheels Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans The Snow Fort at Brienne Napoleon as a Cadet in Paris Street in Edinburgh Where Scott Played as a Boy Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln Charles Dickens at Eighteen
I
Christopher Columbus
The Boy of Genoa: 1446(?)-1506
A privateer was leaving Genoa on a certain June morning in 1461, and crowds of people had gathered on the quays to see the ship sail. Dark-hued men from the distant shores of Africa, clad in brilliant red and yellow and blue blouses or tunics and hose, with dozens of glittering gilded chains about their necks, and rings in their ears, jostled sun-browned sailors and merchants from the east, and the fairer-skinned men and women of