. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. apoleon. With fifteenthousand members of the Portuguese nobility he sailed fromLisbon in his fleet just as the French advanced against the
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. apoleon. With fifteenthousand members of the Portuguese nobility he sailed fromLisbon in his fleet just as the French advanced against the abandoning their own poorer countrvmen to the French,John and his courtiers escaped to Brazil. Here they werereceived with loyal welcome, and established a government atRio de Janeiro. The Brazilian people, pleased as children witha new toy at thus having a king of their own, took no part in thestruggle for republican institutions which convulsed the Spanishcolonies. John granted the Brazilians freedom of intercourse withother nations: a privilege no South American people had ever before entered the countr\- and opened its resources. Printing was intro-duced; arts and manufactures developed as if by magic. The sudden sun ofprosperitv- which burst upon Brazil made her life for the moment a roseatecontrast to that of the tempest-swept Spanish colonies. In these, the tumult of the Napoleonic war roused first echo in Argen-. I MIRANDA IN PRISON vThe First Great Martyr of the South American War for Freedom) From a painting by the Spanish American artist, Luis Montero REALIZING the weakness of Spain against Napoleon, allof the Spanish colonies began to insist on governingthemselves. The man who first roused the more north-ern colonies to their war for independence Avas General Fran-cisco Miranda. He was a native-born Venezuelan of rankand wealth. He went to Europe in early life and won dis-tinction in European warfare. He fought also in our Revolu-tion, lending
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