THE STORY OF NELSON

Uniform with this Volume

THE STORY OF NAPOLEON

By Harold F. B. Wheeler, F.R.Hist.S. With 16 full-page Illustrations.

FAMOUS VOYAGES OF THE GREAT DISCOVERERS

By Eric Wood. With 16 full-page Illustrations.

THE STORY OF THE CRUSADES

By E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, F.R.Hist.S. With 16 full-page Illustrations by M. Meredith Williams.

STORIES OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER

By Mr and Mrs William Platt. With 16 full-page Illustrations by M. Meredith Williams.

The “Belleisle” went into action at Trafalgar with the words “Victory or Death” chalked on her guns

Frank Craig, from a sketch by C. W. Cole

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THE BOYS’ NELSON

BY Harold F. B. Wheeler F.R.Hist.S.

MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION JOINT-AUTHOR OF ‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’ AND ‘THE WAR IN WEXFORD 1798’ AUTHOR OF ‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’ ‘THE BOYS’ NAPOLEON’ AND ‘THE MAXIMS OF NAPOLEON’

‘He is the only man who has ever lived who, by universal consent, is without a peer’ ADMIRAL SIR CYPRIAN BRIDGE G.C.B.

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