Red True Story Book (Annotated & Illustrated)

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.

The Red True Story Book needs no long Introduction. The Editor, in presenting The Blue True Story Book, apologised for offering tales so much less thrilling and romantic than the legends of the Fairies, but he added that even real facts were, sometimes, curious and interesting. Next year he promises something quite as true as History, and quite as entertaining as Fairies!

Contents

Wilson's Last Fight

The Life and Death of Joan the Maid

How the Bass was held for King James

The Crowning of Ines de Castro

The Story of Orthon

How Gustavus Vasa won his Kingdom

Monsieur de Bayard's Duel

Story of Gudbrand of the Dales

Sir Richard Grenville

The Story of Molly Pitcher

The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer

Marbot's March

Eylau. The Mare Lisette

How Marbot crossed the Danube

The piteous Death of Gaston, Son of the Count of Foix

Rolf Stake

The Wreck of the 'Wager'

Peter Williamson

A Wonderful Voyage

The Pitcairn Islanders

A Relation of three years' Suffering of Robert Everard upon the Island of Assada, near Madagascar, in a Voyage to India, in the year 1686

The Fight at Svolder Island

The Death of Hacon the Good

Prince Charlie's War

The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition

The Story of Emund

The Man in White

The Adventures of 'the Bull of Earlstoun'

The Story of Grisell Baillie's Sheep's Head

The Conquest of Peru