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The Commoner.
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 31
NAPOLEON'S name fills more pages in the world's solemn history than that of any other mortal. The advance of his Grand Army into Russia is the turning
point in his career and marks the beginning of his downfall. The picture shown herewith from Ridpath's history, the original of which vas displayed at
the World's Fair at Chicago, marks but one event qut of thousands which are fully described and illustrated in the world-famed publication.
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smash his Persian fleet of over a thousand Bail, and help to mould the
language in which this paragraph is written. Rome perches Nero upon
the greatest throne on earth, and so sets up a poor mad-
uiuu s uame id stana ior counuess centuries as the synonym T
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