Chapter IV
Gunhill, May 28, 1672: Dutch fleet attacks England.
Battle of Sole Bay.
Royal James (battleship), the commander of the English fleet, the Earl of Sandwich.
Chapter V
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In the elate summer of 1861, Mme Evelina Korzeniowska travelled from the small Ukrainian town of Zhitomir to Warsaw, with her boy Jósef Teodor Konrad, then not quite five, to join her husband Apollo Korzeniowski, who that spring had already given up his unrewarding position as an estate manager with the intention of helping pave the way for a revolt against Russian tyranny through his writings and be means of conspiratorial politics. In mid-October the illegal Polish National Committee met for its first sessions in Korzeniowski's Warsaw flat, and over the next few weeks thee young Konrad doubtless saw many mysterious persons coming and going at his parents' home...
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The tutor was under instructions to remind his charge at every opportunity of the many careers that were open to him beside seafaring, but no matter he said, Konrad stuck tenaciously to his resolve. Scarcely a year later, on the 14th of October 1874, when he was not yet seventeen, he took leave of his grandmother Teofila Bobrowska and his good Uncle Tadeusz, as they stood on the platform at Cracow outside the train window.
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