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From days of anguish and anger to days of conflict and calamity.
1. Mutiny on the Bounty & Pitcairn Island
"His mind was his own place and therein he fought his fight, underwent his sufferings and won his triumph."
2. Alexander Selkirk - The Real Robinson Crusoe
History is an account of remarkable facts which have happened in the world.
3. Man in the Iron Mask
History brings us tidings of antiquity.
4. Easter Island
History recounts the memories of momentous events.
5. Napoleon Returns
Having thrown himself on the mercy of the enemy, he waited to find out his fate.
6. St. Helena
A half-world between liberty and limbo
"Napoleon's image took on a new living form in memory and imagination."
7.The 'Little Corporal' Comes Home
A Memorial Like No Other
8.Vimy
"An Unmitigated Tactical Debacle"
9. Dieppe
"I love the place."
10. Churchill's Chartwell
"This is the finest view in England."
11. Blenheim
He stands above the merely great.
11. Churchill's Funeral
&
Burial at Bladon
Man Behind The Mariners
12. Henry the Navigator At Sagres
A river nourished by the Alpine snows - but for how long!
13. Cruising Down The Rhine River
Lived And Died In The Service of Others
14. The Knights of St.John of Jerusalem in Malta
"An Ancient amphitheatre as imposing as the pyramids"
15. Tunisia
Carthaginian
&
Roman Ruins
"A god to his friends and a devil to his foes"
16. William the Conqueror
"A bubbling broth of molten rock oozed out and up, up up."
17. Haleakala
Mountain of Legend
Once considered one of the three most beautiful cities in the world
18. Brugge
The final resting place of Canadian casualties from continental conflicts
19. Tombs of War
20. Paris - City of Light
Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named."
21. Assault on the Atlantic Wall
The tomb was the living pharaoh's primary preoccupation.
22. Ramses I
"An after-life based on legend and romance"
23. Richard Coeur de Lion
From heretic to heroine
24. Jeanne d'Arc
"Theirs not to reason why."
25. Charge of the Light Brigade
"Etruscans are among the irritating obscurities of history."
26. Etruscans
The pillars marked the end of voyaging.
26.Pillar of Hercules
"The duty had, in fact, fallen on me."
27.Winston's War Rooms
"A melancholic man with enormous creative and intellectual powers."
28.Samuel Johnson
29.King Tut et al
30. Barbados & Pirates
31. Florida
32. Hawaii
33. The Queen Marys
34. New York City
35. California
36. Arizona
37. Gothic Cathedrals
38. The Colosseum
39. Scotland
40. Black Sea Sojourn
41. Yalta
42. Japan
Travel Broadens.
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Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean roll.
Copyright © 2008 W. R. Wilson
