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Frederic Leake. Historic Bubbles
Historic Bubbles
Table of Contents
PREFACE
The Duke of Berwick
The Captivity of Babylon
The Second House of Burgundy
EPILOGUE
Two Jaquelines
VALOIS, BURGUNDY, HAPSBURG, BOURBON
Hoche
An Interesting Ancestor of Queen Victoria
John Wiclif
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Frederic Leake
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Macaulay says:—“At Landen two poor, sickly beings were the soul of two great armies. It is probable that among the hundred and twenty thousand soldiers marshalled around Neerwinden, the two feeblist in body were the hunchback dwarf who urged forward the fiery onset of France, and the asthmatic skeleton who covered the slow retreat of England.”
Quite picturesque, that! but the truth is William covered no retreat slow or fast: he covered nothing but his horse and to him he applied both spurs: it was the best he could do.
