(Encyclopedia) Gustavus II (Gustavus Adolphus), 1594–1632, king of Sweden (1611–32), son and successor of Charles IX.
In military organization and strategy, Gustavus was ahead of his time. While…
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Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages Of the Religions of the Utopians Of Their Military Discipline They detest war as a very brutal thing, and which, to the reproach of human…
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In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the writer of the following…
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