Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Marathon paid religious rites to them ; and orators solemnly invoked them in their most impassioned adjurations before the assembled men of Athens. " Nothing was omitted that could keep alive the remembrance of a deed which had first taught the Athenian people to know its own strength; by measuring it with the power which had subdued the greater part of the known world. The consciousness thus awakened fixed its character; its station; and its destiny; it was the spring of its later great actions and ambitious enterprises." It was not indeed by one defeat; however signal; that the pride af Persia could be broken; and her dreams of universal empire dispelled. Ten years afterward she renewed her attempts upon Europe on a grander scale of enterprise; and was repulsed by Greece with greater and reiterated loss. Larger forces and heavier slaughter than had been seen at Marathon signalized the conflicts of Greeks and Persians at Artemisium; Salamis; Platsea; and the Eurymedon. But; mighty and momentous as these battles were; they rank not with Marathon in importance. They originated no new impulse. They turned back no current of fate. They were merely confirmatory of the already existing bias which Marathon had created. The day of Marathon is the critical epoch in the history of the two nations. It broke forever the spell of Persian invincibility; which had previously paralyzed men's minds. It generated among the Greeks the spirit which beat back Xerxes; and afterward led on Xenophon; Agesilaus; and Alexander; in terrible retaliation through their Asiatic campaigns. It secured for mankind the intellectual treasures of Athens; the growth of free institutions; the liberal enlightenment of the Western world; and the gradual ascendency for many ages of the great principles of European civ...
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. John Wilkes Booth and His Friends and AlliesBy VIRGINIA KURZWEGThis is an interesting approach to Lincoln's assassination. The writers draw upon a wealth of related material from the time.. There is a great deal about the Confederate Secret Service and some of this is written by a former spy and expert in covert operations. As he says 'the evidenceis circumstantial' that the Confederacy had plenty to do with the assassination. However; there is more than circumstantial evidence that the Confederacy had a great deal to do with most of the conspirators and particularly John Wilkes Booth. And there is a large body of circumstantial evidence. It is remarkable to me that so little has been written about these connections. History essentially swept this under the rug after some of the conspirators were caught and punished. I read this before reading 'Blood on the Moon'; which was published later and draws extensively upon the evidence and conclusions of this book. Both books are important for a true picture of the Confederacy and Jefferson Davis.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. CogentBy margotI went back to my laptop's Kindle version of this book recently. I'd just been reading about Errol Morris's new film on the Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald case (a lengthy piece in the Guardian). The MacDonald case is a bit similar to the subject of this book. Both matters have been analyzed to death; but much of the analysis is mere speculation based on misinformation or missing information.The conventional; received version of the Lincoln assassination has never convinced anyone who thought about it for more than ten minutes. In that story it's all about John Wilkes Booth; a half-crazed theatrical ham. He planned the deed and he did it; with a slight assist from his ad hoc gang of misfits and malcontents. Booth was angry-mad; he was livid; his team had lost and now he was going to get revenge.In this book the authors construct an alternative scenario that is much more plausible as well as being better supported by the available evidence. In this version; the planned kidnapping of Lincoln was no harebrained caper; but a carefully arranged intelligence operation; approved and guided by President Davis and General R E Lee. When the scheme failed (because Lincoln didn't show up that day); the operation was was converted into an assassination that would coincide with the withdrawal of the Army of Northern Virginia (Lee's army) from Richmond and Petersburg. This was forecast to be about the 14th and 15th of April 1865.A large security detail of cavalry had staked out the planned route from Washington City to Richmond. Originally these troops had been detailed to provide a security cordon for the kidnapping venture in March. Instead they shielded the crippled Booth; permitting him to escape capture for nearly two weeks.Booth's capture on April 26th was not part of the plan; of course. Neither had been Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9th. Things went awry because too much happened at once. Lee and Davis had both anticipated the evacuation; and were not alarmed when they had to move out early. But Lee could not foresee the breakdown in communications and supply lines that beset his retreat from its very start (partly because of the missing cavalry). And; Davis hadn't planned on Lee surrendering a few days later.Some reviewers and readers balk at the notion that the Confederate government would have backed an assassination plan. They are just being silly. They should reflect upon more recent escapades in American history. Moreover; the Lincoln regime had started the ball rolling when they attempted to assassinate Jefferson Davis in 1864. And most importantly: the prosecutors in the Lincoln Conspiracy trials were absolutely certain that the orders to kill Lincoln led all the way back to Davis. They had circumstantial evidence; and they had motive; but they didn't have clear proof that they could convict on. Which is why they were so vindictive. They didn't care about hanging old Mrs. Surratt; the boarding-house keeper; they wanted to hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree. But Jeff Davis had been a superb Secretary of War and he knew a thing or two about military intelligence. He outwitted them all.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Story behind the StoryBy RustyFantastic. Insights into the hidden part of the Confederacy. This is my second copy; someone borrowed my first and never returned it. I use it as a reference. Clearly written and well-documented by people who understood.
