The Project Gutenberg eBook, Historic Boyhoods, by Rupert Sargent Holland

Title: Historic Boyhoods

Author: Rupert Sargent Holland

Release Date: January 18, 2008 [eBook #24354]

Language: English

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The Fleet of Columbus Nearing America

Historic Boyhoods

By RUPERT S. HOLLAND

Author of "The Count at Harvard," "Builders of United Italy," etc.

PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1909, by
George W. Jacobs and Company
Published October, 1909

All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.

To
the dear memory
of
L.B.R.

The thanks of the author are due the Century Company for permission to reprint certain of these stories which appeared in Saint Nicholas in shorter form.

CONTENTS

• Christopher Columbus
  The Boy of Genoa
• Michael Angelo
  The Boy of the Medici Gardens
• Walter Raleigh
  The Boy of Devon
• Peter the Great
  The Boy of the Kremlin
• Frederick the Great
  The Boy of Potsdam
• George Washington
  The Boy of the Old Dominion
• Daniel Boone
  The Boy of the Frontier
• John Paul Jones
  The Boy of the Atlantic
• Mozart
  The Boy of Salzburg
• Lafayette
  The Boy of Versailles
• Horatio Nelson
  The Boy of the Channel Fleet
• Robert Fulton
  The Boy of the Conestoga
• Andrew Jackson
  The Boy of the Carolinas
• Napoleon Bonaparte
  The Boy of Brienne
• Walter Scott
  The Boy of the Canongate
• James Fenimore Cooper
  The Boy of Otsego Hall
• John Ericsson
  The Boy of the Göta Canal
• Garibaldi
  The Boy of the Mediterranean
• Abraham Lincoln
  The Boy of the American Wilderness
• Charles Dickens
  The Boy of the London Streets
• Otto Von Bismarck
  The Boy of Göttingen

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Fleet of Columbus Nearing America

Walter Raleigh and the Fisherman of Devon