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Golden Deeds Stories from History - Archive Classics
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Title: Golden Deeds
Stories from History
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How Horatius Kept the Bridge
More than two thousand years ago Rome was ruled over by some kings called the Tarquins. As they were wicked men, the Roman people rose up against them, and drove them out of the city. The banished kings then went to Tuscany, where Lars Porsena took up their cause, and gathering an army together, went to help them force an entrance into Rome again.
HORATIUS AT THE BRIDGE
The city could only be entered by crossing the river Tiber, and there was but one wooden bridge over which the army could pass. Then the leader of the Romans, who was called the Consul, cried out to his followers to destroy the bridge.
But,
he added sadly, "I fear they will be upon us before we have time to hew it
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