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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1153

A Pyrrhic Victory

The ancient Greek King knew victory had cost his army more than it could afford to lose.

1154

The Man Who Left No Footprints

A young monk was rewarded for taking his duties as guest-master seriously.

1155

The Rewards of Treachery

Cicero warns those who seek power through civic unrest that they will never be the beneficiaries of it.

1156

How Britain Abolished Slavery

The Church, mother Nature and free markets had almost done for slavery at home when colonies in the New World brought it back.

1157

The Obstinacy of Fowell Buxton

Fatherless teenage tearaway Fowell Buxton was not a promising boy, but the Gurney family changed all that.

1158

The Battle of Jutland

Preventing the German fleet from breaking out into the Atlantic in 1916 should have felt like victory, but it felt like defeat.