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Title: A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines
A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.

Author: Clayton Edwards

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Language: English

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A TREASURY OF HEROES AND HEROINES

A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure
from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.

by

CLAYTON EDWARDS
Author of "The Story of Evangeline"

Illustrated in Colour by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis

[Illustration: JEANNE D'ARC DREW THE ARROW FROM HER BREAST WITH THE
COURAGE OF A VETERAN--_See page 100_]

Cupples and Leon Company
New York

Copyright, 1920, by Frederick A. Stokes Company

All rights reserved. No part of this
work may be reproduced without the
written permission of the publishers

Printed in the United States of America

PREFACE

It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book
together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but
interested couples--for this is a book of contrasts and has been
written as such. Lives of the most dramatic and adventurous quality
have been gathered from all corners of the earth, and from every age in
history, in such a way that they may cover the widest possible variety
of human experience.

The publishers believe that such a book would not be complete without
some characters that are no less real because they have lived only in
the minds of men. No explanation is needed for semi-historical
characters like King