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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
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J. D. Jerrold Kelley - Story of the Barbary Corsairs
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H. A. Guerber - Story of the Thirteen Colonies
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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
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