A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines. Clayton Edwards
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Clayton Edwards
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines
A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664597823
Table of Contents
A TREASURY OF HEROES AND HEROINES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| "Jeanne d'Arc drew the arrow from her breast with the courage of a veteran" | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| "King Arthur grasped the magic sword that none but the bravest might hold" | 36 |
| "Robin Hood's band made merry by killing the King's deer" | 68 |
| "'I have not yet begun to fight,' shouted Paul Jones" | 188 |
| "The cannon balls fired by Molly Pitcher fell squarely in the British lines" | 196 |
| "Don Quixote suffered nobody to draw water from the well" | 276 |
A TREASURY OF HEROES AND HEROINES
CHAPTER I
BUDDHA
About five hundred years before the birth of Christ a mighty king reigned in India over the land of the Sakyas, from which the snowy tops of the Himalaya Mountains could be seen. His name was Suddhodana and he had two wives called Maya and Pajapati; but for a long time they bore him no children, and the King despaired of having an heir to his throne. Then Queen Maya bore a son and after he was born, the legends tell us, she had a dream in which she saw a great multitude of people bowing to her in worship. Wise men were summoned to interpret the dream, and they told her that the King's son, so golden in color and so well formed, was destined for greatness as surely as rivers ran to the sea—that he would become either a mighty conqueror who would subdue all the people of the earth, or a holy