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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d roused his people totest the mettle of his new Frankish overlord. Poinding Pepin to the full as ter-rible a foe as Charles Martel had been, Hunald after three years of warfareacknowledged his supremacy, and took advantage of the peace that followed, topunish all whom he considered had not sufficiently supported him in his rebel-lion. Even his own brother had his eyes torn out and was cast into a dungeon,where he died. Then with sudden remorse for this cruelty, Hunald abandonedhis ducal throne to his son Waifre and retired to a monastery. Waifre and Pepin soon renewed the struggle handed down to them by theirfathers and grandfathers. For nine years the Pranks came in regular campaignsinto Aquitaine and deliberately laid waste the land, as far as they could pene-trate. Unable to resist them in the field, Waifre defended his cities, whichwere stormed one after another, until at last the duke became a homeless out-cast. Still he refused to yield. The war became one of a nation against a
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France—Charlemagne in Spain 781 man, and the Prankish army drove Waifre and his band from mountain tomountain. At last Pepin induced some of the dukes own men to slay him, thattheir land might have peace. Legend says that this one crime weighed heavily on Pepins mind. He diedsoon after and left his now firmly established power to his son Charlemagne.Again the subject races rebelled against the new king. The old Duke Hunald,coming from his monastery, appeared like an apparition among the Aquitainians,and persuaded them to try once more for independence against the hated Franks.Charlemagnes first campaign crushed this rebellion, and Hunald fled to hisnephew, the Duke of Wasconia, son of that brother whose eyes Hunald hadtorn out. The nephew promptly surrendered his uncle to Charlemagne, and theaged rebel ended his days in an Italian monastery. The wise Charlemagne determined to use persuasion where force had sooften failed, and instead of crushing the remnant of the Aquitainians, he d

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