War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization - The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers (1899) (14595684519)

Paardekraal Monument (Boer demonstration at the Paardekraal Monument)
Identifier: warinsouthafrica00hard (find matches)
Title: War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Harding, William
Subjects: Boer War
Publisher: Chicago : Dominion Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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ith openarms, who regarded him as their deliverer from the yoke of the Persians. From A. D. 52 to A. D. 31 were the famous years of Pompey, Cleo-patra, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius and Anthony, ending with the suicide of Anthony, following his defeat by Octavianus and after he had beendeclared by the Roman Senate to be an enemy of his country. Previousto this, as we all know, Anthony had spent years in gorgeous debauch-ery with the beautiful Egyptian Queen, who caused her own death bythe bite of an asp after hearing of Anthonys suicide. In A. D. 639 the Arabs conquered Egypt and, under its Moham-medan rulers, the country was completely changed. The Mamelukes,chiefly military slaves from the Caucasus, seized the country in 1250.They had grown into power through the favor of Sultan Saladin andwere not subdued until 1517, when they were defeated by SultanSelim. Their descendants, however, kept the country in a disturbedstate for more than 200 years more and, in the first half of the eighteenth
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THE PAARDEKRAAL MONUMENT.