The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge

Holland, Saint Elizabeth's Flood, detail

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Holland, two windmills

01 Story of the Netherlands

02 – Brave Little Holland

03- A Wealth of Herrings

04 – A Dutch Reformer


05 – The Story of Martin Luther

Luther posting his 95 theses

06 – The Diet of Worms

07 – An Historic Scene

08 – How the Trouble Began

09 – The Storm Bursts

10 – Beggars of the Sea

11 – The Massacre of Bartholomew

12 – The Siege of Leyden

13 – William the Silent

14 – England

15 – Elizabeth’s Sailors

16 – Drake’s Voyage Round the World

The Spanish Armada off the English coast by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen

17 – The Great Armada

18 – Among the Icebergs

19 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert

20 – Virginia

21 – Story of the Revenge

22 – Sir Walter Raleigh

Una and the Lion from Spenser's Faerie Queene

23 – The Fairy Queen

24 – The Great Dramatist

Queen Elizabeth I in coronation robes
25 – The Golden Days of Good Queen Bess

26 – First Voyage of the East India Company

27 – The Story of Henry Hudson

28 – Captain John Smith

29 – The Founding of Quebec

30 – The Pilgrim Fathers

31 – Thirty Years of War

Thirty Years War Battle of Lutzen by Carl Wahlbom.

32 – The Dutch at Sea

33 – The Great South Land

34 – Van Riebeek’s Colony

35 – In the Days of Oliver Cromwell

36 – Two Famous Admirals

37 – De Ruyter

38 – The Founder of Pennsylvania

39 – The ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’

40 – The House of Orange

William II of Orange by Van Dyck

41 – William’s Invitation

42 – The Struggle in Ireland

43 – The Siege of Vienna by the Turks

44 – The Greatness of France

45 – The Story of the Huguenots

46 – The Greatest General of His Age

47 – The Battle of Blenheim

Peter the Great1838 by Delaroche

48 – How Peter the Great Learned Shipbuilding

49 – Charles XII of Sweden

50 – The Boyhood of Frederick the Great

51 – Anson’s Voyage Round the World

52 – Maria Theresa

53 – The Story of Scotland

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