The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
by Rossiter Johnson
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Rudd, John, LL. D.
- Credits
- Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Lazar Liveanu and PG Distributed Proofreaders
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere
- Subject
- World history
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 9929
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9929
- Release Date
- February 1, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.%THE GREAT EVENTS% — BY — A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY. EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS. AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS — %NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL% — ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. WITH THOROUGH INDICES. BIBLIOGRAPHIES. CHRONOLOGIES. AND COURSES OF READING — EDITOR-IN-CHIEF — ASSOCIATE EDITORS
- 3.%CONTENTS% — ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME XII — %AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE% — CONTINENTAL WARS — LATER EFFORTS OF LOUIS XIV — CHANGES IN NORTHERN EUROPE — GROWTH OF AMERICA — %LOUIS XIV ESTABLISHES ABSOLUTE MONARCHY% — %NEW YORK TAKEN BY THE ENGLISH% — %GREAT PLAGUE IN LONDON% — %GREAT FIRE IN LONDON% — %DISCOVERY OF GRAVITATION% — %MORGAN, THE BUCCANEER, SACKS PANAMA% — %STRUGGLE OF THE DUTCH AGAINST FRANCE AND ENGLAND% — %DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI% — %KING PHILIP'S WAR% — %GROWTH OF PRUSSIA UNDER THE GREATELECTOR% — %WILLIAM PENN RECEIVES THE GRANT OF PENNSYLVANIA% — %LAST TURKISH INVASION OF EUROPE% — %MONMOUTH'S REBELLION% — %REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES% — %THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION% — H.D. TRAILL — %PETER THE GREAT MODERNIZES RUSSIA% — %TYRANNY OF ANDROS IN NEW ENGLAND% — %MASSACRE OF LACHINE% — %SIEGE OF LONDONDERRY AND BATTLE OF THE BOYNE% — %SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS% — A.D. 1692 — %ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND% — %COLONIZATION OF LOUISIANA% — %PRUSSIA PROCLAIMED A KINGDOM% — %FOUNDING OF ST. PETERSBURG% — %BATTLE OF BLENHEIM% — %UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND% — %DOWNFALL OF CHARLES XII AT POLTAVA% — %CAPTURE OF PORT ROYAL[1]% — %CHRONOLOGY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY EMBRACING THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS VOLUME%
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