| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS |
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| ———••——— |
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| IN COLOUR. |
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| [Henry the Eighth and Cardinal Wolsey,] |
| [Hunters and Traders,] |
| [Caractacus in Rome,] |
| [Sir Tristram at the Court of Arthur,] |
| [Augustine preaching to Ethelbert and Bertha,] |
| [Alfred in the Camp of the Danes,] |
| [Coronation of William the Conqueror,] |
| [Death of Becket,] |
| [Crusaders on the March,] |
| [King Richard and the Young Archer,] |
| [Hubert and Arthur,] |
| [The Trial of Wallace,] |
| [Edward the Third at the Siege of Calais,] |
| [The Black Prince being made a Knight of the Garter,] |
| [The Little Princes in the Tower,] |
| [The Departure of John and Sebastian Cabot on their First Voyage of Discovery, 1497,] |
| [Cardinal Wolsey on his Way to Westminster Hall,] |
| [The Murder of Rizzio,] |
| [The Armada in Sight,] |
| [Charles the First leaving Westminster Hall after his Trial,] |
| [Cromwell dictating Dispatches to Milton,] |
| [The Fall of Clarendon,] |
| [The Last Sleep of Argyll,] |
| [The Prince of Orange landing at Torbay,] |
| [The British Assault on the Village of Blenheim,] |
| [A Royal Fugitive,] |
| [The Battle of Trafalgar, and the Victory of Lord Nelson over the French and Spanish Fleets, October 21, 1805,] |
| [The Death of Nelson,] |
| [Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon,] |
| [The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo,] |
| [Saving the Colours: An Incident of the Battle of Inkermann,] |
| [Jessie’s Dream,] |
| IN BLACK AND WHITE. |
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| [The First Invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar,] |
| [The Invasion of the Emperor Claudius,] |
| [The Emperor Hadrian visiting a Pottery in Britain,] |
| [Columba preaching,] |
| [A Great Viking,] |
| [The Death of Harold,] |
| [Hereward yielding to William,] |
| [“God Wills It!”] |
| [The First Prince of Wales,] |
| [The Battle of Bannockburn,] |
| [The Morning of Agincourt,] |
| [The Coronation of Charles the Seventh at Rheims,] |
| [Joan of Arc storming the “Bulwark” (Orleans),] |
| [Death of Warwick,] |
| [Richard the Third at the Battle of Bosworth,] |
| [Trial of Queen Catherine,] |
| [Henry the Eighth,] |
| [At Sea. “Farewell, France!”] |
| [Escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle,] |
| [Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury Fort,] |
| [The Boyhood of Sir Walter Raleigh,] |
| [Cromwell at Marston Moor,] |
| [Jane Lane helping Prince Charles to escape,] |
| [Rescued from the Plague, London, 1665,] |
| [The Arrest of Alice Lisle,] |
| [Bonnie Prince Charlie,] |
| [After Culloden: Royalist Soldiers searching for Jacobite Fugitives,] |
| [Clive at Bay,] |
| [Death of Wolfe,] |
| [Queen Victoria in her Coronation Robes,] |
| [Queen Victoria at St. Paul’s,] |
| [Edward the Seventh,] |
Chapter I.
BRITAIN BEFORE THE ROMAN CONQUEST.
THE PHŒNICIANS.
“The bond of commerce was designed
To associate all the branches of mankind;
And if a boundless plenty be the robe,