Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515204213)

In the year 1567 there were few towns in the southern counties of England that did not contain a colony, more or less large, of French Protestants. For thirty years the Huguenots had been exposed to constant and cruel persecutions; many thousands had been massacred by the soldiery, burned at the stake, or put to death with dreadful tortures. Fifty thousand, it was calculated, had, in spite of the most stringent measures of prevention, left their homes and made their escape across the frontiers. These had settled for the most part in the Protestant cantons of Switzerland, in Holland, or England. As many of those who reached our shores were but poorly provided with money, they naturally settled in or near the ports of landing.

Author: G. a. Henty
ISBN-10: 1515204219
ISBN-13: 9781515204213
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2015
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.27d