South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure. Cyrus Townsend Brady

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СКАЧАТЬ rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_ec935091-0f0a-515b-90d9-c132cf466d3d">III. The Religion of the Aztecs

       IV. The March to Tenochtitlan

       V. The Republic of Tlascala

       VI. Cortes' Description of Mexico, written by his own hand to Charles V., Emperor of Germany and King of Spain

       VII. The Meeting with Montezuma

       VIII. The Seizure of the Emperor

       IX. The Revolt of the Capital

       X. In God's Way

       The Death of Montezuma. From an old engraving.

       "He Defended Himself With His Terrible Spear"

       XI. The Melancholy Night

       XII. The Siege and Destruction of Mexico

       XIII. A Day of Desperate Fighting

       XIV. The Last Mexican

       XV. The End of Cortes

       PART II OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE

       I

       The Yarn of the Essex , Whaler

       "The Ship Came to a Dead Stop"

       "The Killing of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr, at Weehawken, New Jersey, July 11, 1804"

       II

       Some Famous American Duels

       I. A Tragedy of Old New York

       II. Andrew Jackson as a Duellist

       III. The Killing of Stephen Decatur

       IV. An Episode in the Life of James Bowie

       V. A Famous Congressional Duel

       VI. The Last Notable Duel in America

       III

       The Cruise of the Tonquin

       A Forgotten Tragedy in Early American History

       IV

       John Paul Jones

       Being Further Light on His Strange Career[1]

       I. The Birth of the American Navy

       II. Jones First Hoists the Stars and Stripes

       III. The Battle With the Serapis

       IV. A Hero's Famous Sayings

       V. What Jones Did for His Country

       VI. Why Did He Take the Name of Jones?

       VII. Search for Historical Evidence

       VIII. The Joneses of North Carolina

       IX. Paul Jones Never a Man of Wealth

       V

       In the Caverns of the Pitt

       A Story of a Forgotten Fight with the Indians

       VI

       Being a Boy Out West

       INDEX

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