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Contents
1. Battle of Brunanburh, Tennyson 12. The Fight of Maldon, A.C. Auchmuty 7
3. Harold and Stamford-Bridge, Tennyson 15
4. Harold and Senlac, Tennyson 16
5. Civil War, and the Crusades, Shakspere 18
6. Simon de Montfort and the Battle of Lewes, Creighton 19
7. The Black Prince and Cressy, Shakspere 20
8. The Black Prince on his Death-bed, Chandos 21
9. Neville’s Cross, or Durham Field, Old Ballad 23
10. Chevy-Chase, Old Ballad 27
11. The Glory of England – in Eclipse, Shakspere 38
12. Prince Henry of Monmouth, Shakspere 39
13. The Two Harrys, Shakspere 41
14. The Praise of an Enemy, Shakspere 42
15. A Prince Indeed, Shakspere 44
16. The Courteous Victor, Shakspere 45
17. Reverence for Law, Shakspere 46
18. Englishmen in the Field, Shakspere 47
19. The Eve of St. Crispin, Shakspere 49
20. Henry the Fifth and Agincourt, Shakspere 50
21. Ballad of Agincourt, Drayton 52
22. Father and Son, Shakspere 57
23. Richmond at Bosworth Field, Shakspere 59
24. Latimer and Ridley: Cranmer, Tennyson 60
25. The Armada, Macaulay 63
26. The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet, Tennyson 68
27. Cromwell and Hampden, Lowell 76
28. To Sir Henry Vane, the Younger, Milton 81
29. To the Lord General Fairfax, Milton 81
30. Chatham and Wolfe, Cowper 82
31. English Freedom and English Character: a Falling Away, Cowper 83
32. Battle of the Baltic, Campbell 85
33. “Milton! thou shouldst be living”, Wordsworth 88
34. The Heritage of Englishmen, Wordsworth 88
35. A Patriot’s Fears, Wordsworth 89
36. To the Men of Kent, Wordsworth 90
37. Buonaparte, Tennyson 91
38. Character of the Happy Warrior, Wordsworth 91
39. “Ye Mariners of England”, Campbell 95
40. To William Wilberforce, Esq., Cowper 97
41. To Thomas Clarkson, Wordsworth 98
42. Arnold of Rugby, Matthew Arnold 99
43. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Tennyson 103
44. The Loss of the Birkenhead, Doyle 114
45. Battle of the Alma, Trench 116
46. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson 118
47. Florence Nightingale, Longfellow 120
48. The Defence of Lucknow, Tennyson 122
49. Albert the Good, Tennyson 130