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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1261

Victoria and the Munshi

Abdul Karim’s rapid rise in Victoria’s household made him enemies.

1262

St Elizabeth the New Martyr

The grand-daughter of Queen Victoria was as close to the poor of Moscow’s slums as she was to the Russian Tsar.

1263

The Battle of Glen Shiel

King Philip V of Spain sent a second Spanish Armada against Britain, but it suffered much the same fate as the first.

1264

The Pimpernel Fails to Show

Lady Blakeney agrees to spy for the French Revolutionary government in return for her brother’s life.

1265

Boudica

British sympathy for Roman imperial progress evaporated when officials began asset-stripping the country.

1266

David Livingstone

The Scottish missionary and medic believed that slavery could better be eradicated by trade than by force.