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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 1 : parentage, and Early years. (search)
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 9 . (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 10 : Fort Crawford , 1832 -33 . (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1 : lineage and education. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 135 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 7.48 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carteret , Sir George 1599 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elizabeth , Queen of England (search)
Elizabeth, Queen of England
Born in Greenwich, Sept. 7, 1533; daughter of Henry VIII.
and Anne Boleyn.
Under the tuition of Roger Ascham she acquired much proficiency in classical learning, anthe Protestant Church, and was persecuted by her half-sister, Mary, who was a Roman Catholic.
Elizabeth never married.
When quite young her father negotiated for her nuptials with the son of FranciI.
of France assumed the arms and title of King of England in right of his wife, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth sent an army to Scotland which drove the French out of the kingdom.
She supported the French .
Because of the opposite interests in religion, and possibly because of matrimonial affairs, Elizabeth and Philip of Spain were mutually hostile, and in 1588 the latter sent the invincible Armada fillustrated during her reign by such men as Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Bacon, and Raleigh.
Elizabeth was possessed of eminent ability and courage, but her personal character was deformed by selfi