History of Genghis Khan
By Jacob Abbott. Genghis Khan, or Temujin, famous in the West for his and his descendants’ incursions into Eastern Europe,…
Pyrrhus
By Jacob Abbott. The English saying “a Pyrrhic victory” comes from the name of the third century BC king of…
History of Xerxes the Great
By Jacob Abbott. The story of Xerxes the Great (circa 519–465 BC), the fourth king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire,…
Hannibal
By Jacob Abbott. Rome or Carthage: the struggle between these two great powers of the ancient world determined the course of western…
Cleopatra
By Jacob Abbott. Cleopatra VII was more than the last Macedonian Queen of Egypt. She was a femme fatale of…
Conqueror of the World: Alexander the Great
By Jacob Abbott. By the age of 33, Alexander of Macedon had conquered most of the known world and would…
William the Conqueror
By Jacob Abbott. American master storyteller Jacob Abbott’s classic work on William the Conqueror tells the dramatic story of the Norman…
Richard III
By Jacob Abbott. King Richard III of England (1452–1485) only occupied the throne for two years, but his death at…
Richard II
By Jacob Abbot. The story of King Richard II of England (1367–1400, reigned 1377 to 1399), as told by master storyteller…
Richard I
By Jacob Abbott. One of the greatest kings of England who hardly ever set foot in that country, Richard I…