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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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een with ill-will by Lupo, Duke of Gasco- ny, who w! - • ■>-,■-■■ leaving Spain to meet fresh dangers on the Rhine, ■ for his destruction in the gorges of the Pyrenees. The i;;eiT4Aif 8aKlXITIW TA SZOAMJTJflAtioihe first division ofhis army, the second was ,,, v of Roncesvalles, and no.ans1 a ifir111. 1 ■ 1 -1 ^ ^ i- , to a state oi ^on. But no sooner had 1 her he was called by many pressing affairs, than Witi- alians, started forth from his retreat in Den- io a renewed contest. The time was well > to have been as superior to the generals of lie as he was inferior to the king himself, gave the Franks a complete frontiers,went lar bevond even the worst of their earlier tl.Ki-i, )>t (I, four thaii of -had faiiv-u ourse, as u : he most hostile and turbulei :ted in •-uidness. y his name Sfuaraii oaths which they to incur the fatal lit this time landed that delivered up to him. in order to do by intimidation what he ij 1^ st-verity, however, failed in producing the
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CHARLEMAGNE 79 desired effect. It was not long before the Saxons again flew to arms, when theysustained so signal a defeat that very few of all their host escaped from the bloodyfield. Yet still the spirit of the barbarians, supported by an indomitable passionfor war and plunder, continued as little quelled as ever. Witikind and Albion,their most popular chiefs, still maintained the contest, even when suffering noth-ing but disasters, until at length, their conqueror, subduing them more by policythan by arms, won them over to the Christian faith, which was then embraced byall Saxony.* This, for the time, produced a better feeling, though the truce wasnot of long duration. Hildegarde, the wife of Charlemagne, had now been dead some short time,when he married Fastrada, the daughter of a Prankish noble. It is said thatfrom this union there arose a spirit of discontent among some of the leading menof his nation, who in consequence rebelled against him; but, finding themselvestoo weak to c

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