Editor’s note:  The following is extracted from Historic Events of Colonial Days, by Rupert S. Holland (published 1916). (Go back to previous chapter) Soldiers, both foot and cavalry, were landed on Long

Editor’s note:  The following is extracted from Historic Events of Colonial Days, by Rupert S. Holland (published 1916). (Go back to previous chapter) Peter Stuyvesant saw that he would have to make

Editor’s note:  The following is extracted from Historic Events of Colonial Days, by Rupert S. Holland (published 1916). The island of Manhattan, which is now tightly packed with the office-buildings and houses

Editor’s note:  The following is extracted from Builders of United Italy, by Rupert Sargent Holland (published 1908). The story of Venetian glory seemed closed with the last years of the Eighteenth Century.