Historic Tales - Volume XII

Historic Tales - Volume XII
Charles Morris, american journalist, novelist and author (1833-1922)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- THE FIRST OF THE MIKADOS
-03- HOW CIVILIZATION CAME TO JAPAN
-04- YAMATO DAKÉ, A HERO OF ROMANCE
-05- JINGU, THE AMAZON OF JAPAN
-06- THE DECLINE OF THE MIKADOS
-07- HOW THE TAIRA AND THE MINAMOTO FOUGHT FOR POWER
-08- THE BAYARD OF JAPAN
-09- THE HOJO TYRANNY
-10- THE TARTAR INVASION OF JAPAN
-11- NOBUNAGA AND THE FALL OF THE BUDDHISTS
-12- HOW A PEASANT BOY BECAME PREMIER
-13- THE FOUNDER OF YEDO AND OF MODERN FEUDALISM
-14- THE PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN
-15- THE DECLINE AND FALL OF CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN
-16- THE CAPTIVITY OF CAPTAIN GOLOWNIN
-17- THE OPENING OF JAPAN
-18- THE MIKADO COMES TO HIS OWN AGAIN
-19- HOW THE EMPIRE OF CHINA AROSE AND GREW
-20- CONFUCIUS, THE CHINESE SAGE
-21- THE FOUNDER OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE
-22- KAOTSOU AND THE DYNASTY OF THE HANS
-23- THE EMPRESS POISONER OF CHINA
-24- THE INVASION OF THE TARTAR STEPPES
-25- THE  CRIMSON EYEBROWS
-26- THE CONQUEST OF CENTRAL ASIA
-27- THE SIEGE OF SINCHING
-28- FROM THE SHOEMAKER'S BENCH TO THE THRONE
-29- THREE NOTABLE WOMEN
-30- THE REIGN OF TAITSONG THE GREAT
-31- A FEMALE RICHELIEU
-32- THE TARTARS AND GENGHIS KHAN
-33- HOW THE FRIARS FARED AMONG THE TARTARS
-34- THE SIEGE OF SIANYANG
-35- THE DEATH STRUGGLE OF CHINA
-36- THE PALACE OF KUBLAI KHAN
-37- THE EXPULSION OF THE MONGOLS
-38- THE RISE OF THE MANCHUS
-39- THE MANCHU CONQUEST OF CHINA
-40- THE CAREER OF A DESERT CHIEF
-41- THE RAID OF THE GOORKHAS
-42- HOW EUROPE ENTERED CHINA
-43- THE BURNING OF THE SUMMER PALACE
-44- A GREAT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT AND ITS FATE
-45- COREA AND ITS NEIGHBORS
-46- THE BATTLE OF THE IRON CLADS
-47- PROGRESS IN JAPAN AND CHINA