Queen Elizabeth, by Jacob Abbott

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Title: Queen Elizabeth Makers of History

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: June 13, 2009 [EBook #29107]

Language: English

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Makers of History

Queen Elizabeth

JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1901

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

[Illustration: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.]

PREFACE.

The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from the strict truth, so far as it can now be discovered by an attentive examination of the annals written at the time when the events themselves occurred. In writ

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