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Little.Egret · 12-08-2014, 08:17 PM

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The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company by George Bryce

For two full centuries the Hudson's Bay Company, under its original Charter, undertook financial enterprises of the greatest magnitude, promoted exploration and discovery, governed a vast domain in the northern part of the American Continent, and preserved to the British Empire the wide territory handed over to Canada in 1870. For nearly a generation since that time the veteran Company has carried on successful trade in competition with many rivals, and has shown the vigour of youth.
The present History includes not only the record of the remarkable exploits of this well-known Company, but also the accounts of the daring French soldiers and explorers who disputed the claim of the Company in the seventeenth century, and in the eighteenth century actually surpassed the English adventurers in penetrating the vast interior of Rupert's Land.

An Historical Sketch of the Native States of India by G.B. Malleson

"THE WANT of a condensed historical sketch of the Native dynasties now reigning in India has been felt alike in that country and in England. Proposals to supply the want have from time to time been mooted. Had any of these been carried to their legitimate conclusion, the present publication would never have seen the light."

Such a work must necessarily be of the nature of a compilation. This aspires to be nothing more. I have gone to the best authorities and have deliberately robbed them.

Nor, when mentioning my obligations, can I omit the name of my valued friend Mr. Runga Charlú, Controller to the household of the Máhárájá of Mysore, a gentleman whose vast range of learning, great acquaintance with affairs, sound comprehensive views, and lofty character render him an invaluable ally to anyone engaged in literary work."

The Story of the Normans by Sarah Orne Jewett

This is a comprehensive history of the Normans, best known for waging the successful invasion of England under William the Conqueror in the Middle Ages.

But the Normans first took Normandy of course and later Sicily.

Conquest of Siberia by G.F. Muller

This book is an account of the Russian conquest of one of its most famous and notorious parts: Siberia, the bitterly cold region known as a final destination for political dissidents.

The Outbreak of Rebellion, the Army in the Civil War by John Nicolay

Nicolay worked in the Lincoln Administration as the president's secretary during the Civil War and thus provided one of the most unique insights in his account of those crucial years.

From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign by William Meade Dame

This is an account by a Civil War soldier of Grant's campaigns against Lee in 1864 and 1865, starting with the Overland Campaign until the siege of Petersburg brought about the capitulation of Richmond in April 1865. Since it was written by a Confederate shortly after the war, it reads very much like Lost Cause literature that glorifies the Southern cause and soldiers, portraying them as failing only due to a lack of material.

The Houses of Lancaster and York by James Gairdner

This comprehensive history looks at medieval England around the reign of Edward III and the dynasties that ruled during the time.

The Pictish Nation Its People and Its Church by Archibald Scott

"A HISTORY of the Nation and Church of the Picts is centuries overdue. Others have contemplated the task; but they shrank from it almost as soon as they began to enter the maze of deliberately corrupted versions of ancient manuscripts, of spurious memoranda introduced into ancient documents, of alleged donations to Gaidheals or Scots of what had been Pictish property, and of fabulous claims to great antiquity made for pretended missions of the Church of Rome to the Britons, the Picts, and the Scots.

. Although, for example, there is more than one version of the original Pictish Chronicle; it is not difficult for an equipped and experienced student to isolate what now remains of the original, or at least of the oldest versions, and even to tell the dialects of Celtic in which the latter were written. The mediaeval hands that wrote introduction or added information to this Chronicle have not always revealed their actual identity like the York copyist of the most valuable of the manuscripts, Robert de Popilton; but it is nearly always possible to tell where they wrote, with what motive they wrote, and to identify the source or sources of their additions, when they had any.

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