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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 25

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[May, history, the Russians burnt Moscow to preventit from falling into the hands of Napoleon, sothis stanch people always stood ready, at theworst, to drown Holland rather than yield herto the foe. Often they let in the waters theyhad so laboriously shut out, laying waste hun- were sure, sooner or… … BATAVIANS IN COUNCIL -DEATH TO THE INVADER ! dreds of fertile acres, that an avenging seamight suddenly confound the invaders. Oftenthey faced famine and pestilence, men, women,and little wonder-stricken children perishing inthe streets of their beleaguered cities — all whohad breath to say it,…

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