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| Title | The Student's Manual of Modern History |
| Author | William Cooke Taylor |
| Editor | Charles Duke Yonge |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1866 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 612 pages |
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