id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 6804 Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness) General History for Colleges and High Schools .txt text/plain 231172 12414 69 purposes of mutual defence, the king of Babylon, and Croesus, the wellknown monarch of Lydia, a state of Asia Minor, formed an alliance against Greece and Persia known as the Græco-Persian War. Tradition says that Cyrus lost his life while leading an expedition In the year 334 B.C., Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, led a small And then Athens being the head of a great empire of subject cities, a The traditions of the Romans place the founding of their city in the year great terror in Rome when news of the situation of the army was brought to making war upon a city which was a friend and ally of the Roman people; [Footnote: Some time after the close of the Second Punic War, the Romans, great nations of modern Europe,--of France, Germany, and Italy. struggle between England and France known as the Hundred Years' War. Having already, in connection with English affairs (see p. ./cache/6804.txt ./txt/6804.txt