The Historians’ History of the World, Volume X

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Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943

Title

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 10 : Spain and Portugal

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David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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English

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D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

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World history

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 66694

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November 8, 2021

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD — Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.BOOK I THE HISTORY OF SPAIN FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
4. 4.CHAPTER I. LAND AND PEOPLE; AND GOTHIC SWAY — THE CELTS AND CELTIBERIANS — THE PHŒNICIAN INVASIONS — THE GREEK COLONIES; THE CARTHAGINIAN CONQUEST — THE ROMANS IN SPAIN — ROMAN ADMINISTRATION — INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY — BARBARIAN INVASIONS — The Goths Arrive (411 A.D. ) — PROGRESS OF THE GOTHIC CONQUEST — LEUVIGILD AND ERMENIGILD — RECARED I AND CATHOLICISM — PETTY MONARCHS (601-672 A.D.) — THE REIGN OF WAMBA — ERVIGIUS AND ERGICA — WITIZA (702-709 A.D.) — THE FABLE OF RODERIC AND FLORINDA (709-711 A.D.) — VISIGOTHIC CIVILISATION — HARDSHIPS OF THE JEWS — BURKE’S ESTIMATE OF GOTHIC RULE — FOOTNOTES
5. 5.CHAPTER II. THE TIME OF MOSLEM DOMINATION — THE ASTURIAS AND LEON UNDER PELAYO (718 A.D.) — SEBASTIAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF COVADONGA (718 A.D.) — ALFONSO THE CATHOLIC (739-757 A.D.) — ALFONSO THE CHASTE AND BERNARDO DEL CARPIO — ALFONSO THE GREAT — ALFONSO’S SUCCESSORS — ORIGIN OF CASTILE — SANCHO EL MAYOR — THE HISTORY OF CASTILE (1037-1109 A.D.) — ORIGIN AND EARLIEST HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF ARAGON — BURKE’S ESTIMATE OF THE CID — THE HISTORICAL CID — CHRISTIAN SPAIN IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY — FOUNDATION OF THE SPANISH ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD — OVERTHROW OF THE MOSLEMS — FOOTNOTES
6. 6.CHAPTER III. THE HISTORY OF CASTILE TO THE DEATH OF PEDRO THE CRUEL — FERDINAND (III) EL SANTO — BURKE’S ESTIMATE OF QUEEN BERENGARIA — FERDINAND’S CONQUESTS — ALFONSO THE LEARNED (EL SABIO) AND HIS SUCCESSORS — Mariana’s Account of the Divine Judgment on Ferdinand IV — ALFONSO XI (1312-1350 A.D. ) — MARIANA’S ACCOUNT OF PEDRO THE CRUEL — AYALA’S ACCOUNT OF THE KING’S HONEYMOON — PEDRO’S FALSE MARRIAGE — AYALA’S ACCOUNT OF THE MURDER OF FADRIQUE — OTHER ROYAL MURDERS — THE WAR WITH HENRY OF TRASTAMARA — BATTLE OF NAJERA OR NAVARRETE (1367 A.D.) — AYALA’S ACCOUNT OF THE QUARREL BETWEEN EDWARD AND PEDRO — A NEW REVOLT; THE END OF PEDRO THE CRUEL — A FINAL ESTIMATE OF PEDRO THE CRUEL — FOOTNOTES
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. ARAGON TO THE UNION WITH CASTILE — JAMES THE CONQUEROR (1213-1276 A.D.) — PEDRO III AND HIS SICILIAN WARS — POLITICAL GROWTH — INTERREGNUM IN ARAGON (1410-1412 A.D.) — ARAGON UNDER RULERS OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF CASTILE — RISING IN CATALONIA — FOOTNOTES
8. 8.CHAPTER V. HENRY OF TRASTAMARA AND ISABELLA OF CASTILE — JUAN I AND THE PORTUGUESE WARS — JOHN OF GAUNT IN SPAIN — THE GOOD KING HENRY III (1390-1406 A.D.) — GUZMAN’S PORTRAIT OF JUAN AND HIS MINISTER — CHRONICLE OF THE CONSTABLE DON ALVARO DE LUNA — INTERNAL DISSENSIONS — THE FALL OF ALVARO — HUME’S ESTIMATE OF JUAN II — THE DISASTERS OF HENRY IV — MARRIAGE OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA — WAR OF THE SUCCESSION (1474-1479 A.D.) — FOOTNOTES
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. FERDINAND AND ISABELLA — Resistance to Papal Encroachment — The Regulation of Trade — The Pre-eminence of the Royal Authority — PROGRESS OF THE WAR — THE SIEGE OF MALAGA — THE CAPTURE OF GRANADA — END OF MOSLEM SWAY IN SPAIN — SPANISH EXPLORERS, AND CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS — THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS — PERSECUTION AND REVOLT OF THE MOORS (1499-1502 A.D.) — SPAIN IN ITALY; THE GREAT CAPTAIN — ILLNESS AND DEATH OF ISABELLA — PRESCOTT’S ESTIMATE OF ISABELLA — BURKE’S ESTIMATE OF ISABELLA; HUME’S ESTIMATE — FOOTNOTES
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. THE REGENCIES OF FERDINAND — PHILIP ENTERS SPAIN — THE REIGN OF PHILIP I (1506 A.D.) — DEATH OF PHILIP; JUANA’S MADNESS — THE RETURN OF FERDINAND — WAS QUEEN JUANA INSANE? — FERDINAND’S SECOND REGENCY (1507-1516 A.D.) — DEATH AND CHARACTER OF FERDINAND — THE REGENCY OF CARDINAL XIMENES — DEATH AND CHARACTER OF XIMENES — THE TWO CHIEF WORKS OF XIMENES — COMPARISON OF XIMENES AND RICHELIEU — REVIEW OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA — DISCOVERY AND COLONISATION — THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPAIN — FOOTNOTES
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. THE EMPEROR CHARLES V — KING CHARLES BECOMES EMPEROR — CHARLES’ STRUGGLE WITH THE CORTES — REVOLT OF THE GERMANEROS AND THE COMUNEROS [78] — QUEEN JUANA RELEASED — THE MOORS UNDER CHARLES V — CHARLES RETIRES FROM THE WORLD — DE MARIANI’S REVIEW OF THE INFLUENCE OF CHARLES V ON SPAIN — FOOTNOTES
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. THE REIGN OF PHILIP II — PHILIP’S MARRIAGE WITH MARY TUDOR — PHILIP’S CHARACTER — WAR WITH THE TURKS (1560-1574 A.D.) — WARS WITH FRANCE (1557-1597 A.D.) — THE NETHERLANDS — ENGLISH AFFAIRS AND THE ARMADA — ACQUISITION OF PORTUGAL — MORISCOS REVOLT — MOORISH ATROCITIES — CHRISTIAN ATROCITIES — THE MISFORTUNES OF DON CARLOS — FATE OF THE KING’S SECRETARY, PEREZ — DE CASTRO’S ESTIMATE OF ANTONIO PEREZ — THE DEATH OF PHILIP — DUNHAM’S ESTIMATE OF PHILIP II — WATSON ON PHILIP’S IMPRUDENCES — FOOTNOTES
13. 13.CHAPTER X. THE LAST OF THE SPANISH HABSBURGS — CAUSES OF SPAIN’S RAPID DECLINE — PHILIP IV “THE GREAT” (1621-1665 A.D.) — THE CATALAN INSURRECTION — THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR AND THE TREATY OF THE PYRENEES — DEATH OF PHILIP IV (1665 A.D.) — KING CHARLES II AND THE FRENCH WAR — THE FATE OF THE YOUNG QUEEN — LAST YEARS OF CHARLES II — THE DISTRESSES OF SPAIN — FOOTNOTES
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. REVIVAL OF SPAIN UNDER THE FIRST BOURBONS — FRENCH INFLUENCE DOMINATES — THE NEW QUEEN AND THE PRINCESS ORSINI — WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION — THE CATALAN REVOLT (1713-1714 A.D.) — A NEW EUROPEAN WAR (1715-1719 A.D.) — PHILIP ABDICATES AND RETURNS (1724 A.D.) — THE ADVENTURES OF RIPPERDÁ — SPANISH ACCOUNT OF THE WAR WITH ENGLAND (1739-1741 A.D.) — THE WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION (1740-1746 A.D.) — THE GOOD KING FERDINAND VI (1746-1759 A.D.) — The Singer Farinelli — CHARLES III (1759-1788 A.D.) — EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS — FOOTNOTES
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. SPAIN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION — THE RISE OF GODOY — GODOY AS MINISTER, AND THE WAR WITH FRANCE — SPAIN IN ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE AGAINST ENGLAND — THE AUTOCRACY OF GODOY — NAPOLEON SCHEMES FOR SPAIN — CHARLES IV ABDICATES; THE BOURBONS AT BAYONNE — LAFUENTE’S ACCOUNT OF THE DOS DE MAYO — THE ROYAL FAMILY AT BAYONNE — FOOTNOTES
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. THE PENINSULAR WAR — WAR DECLARED ON FRANCE — JOSEPH BONAPARTE CHOSEN KING OF SPAIN — THE ENGLISH APPEAR — MOORE’S FAMOUS RETREAT — Napier’s Story of Moore’s Retreat — A Spanish Opinion of the Retreat — FRENCH SUCCESSES — WELLINGTON RESUMES CONTROL — THE LINES OF TORRES VEDRAS — FAILURES IN SPAIN — NAPIER’S ACCOUNT OF THE ASSAULT ON BADAJOZ — BRITISH PROGRESS — NAPIER’S ACCOUNT OF THE RETREAT — AFFAIRS OF 1812-1813 — RETURN OF THE BOURBONS — ENGLAND’S SHARE IN THE WAR — NAPIER’S ESTIMATE OF WELLINGTON — FOOTNOTES
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS — THE REIGN OF TERROR — THE TYRANNIES OF FERDINAND “THE DESIRED” — A SERIAL REVOLUTION (1814-1822 A.D.) — CHÂTEAUBRIAND’S ACCOUNT OF THE CHAOS — CIVIL WAR — INTERVENTION OF THE HOLY ALLIANCE (1823 A.D.) — THE FRENCH INVASION — THE RETURN OF FERDINAND (1823 A.D.) — RISE OF CARLISM — WAR OF THE CHRISTINOS AND CARLISTS (1833-1839 A.D.) — THE STORMY REGENCY OF CHRISTINA (1833-1841 A.D.) — ESPARTERO REGENT (1841-1843 A.D.) — THE PROFLIGATE QUEEN ISABELLA II (1843-1868 A.D.) — THE REBELLION OF 1868 A.D. — PIRALA ON THE “MILD ANARCHY” OF 1869 A.D. — ESTIMATE BY CHERBULIEZ OF GENERAL PRIM — THE HUNT FOR A KING — AMADEO’S REIGN (1870-1873 A.D.); AND THE REPUBLIC (1873-1874 A.D.) — REPUBLICAN SPAIN UNDER CASTELAR (1873 A.D.) — THE BASQUES AND CARLISM — THE DICTATORSHIP OF SERRANO — THE BOURBON ALFONSO XII ELECTED (1875 A.D.) — ALFONSO XII AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS — THE REGENCY OF MARIA CHRISTINA (1886-1902 A.D.) — FOOTNOTES
18. 18.BRIEF REFERENCE-LIST OF AUTHORITIES BY CHAPTERS — Chapter I. Land and People and Early History — Chapter II. The Time of Moslem Domination — Chapter III. Castile, to Death of Pedro the Cruel — Chapter IV. Aragon, to the Union with Castile — Chapter V. Trastamara, to Isabella — Chapter VI. Ferdinand and Isabella — Chapter VII. The Regency of Ferdinand — Chapter VIII. The Emperor Charles V — Chapter IX. Philip II — Chapter X. Last of the Spanish Habsburgs — Chapter XI. Revival under the First Bourbons — Chapter XII. Spain and the French Revolution — Chapter XIII. The Peninsular War — Chapter XIV. The Bourbon Restoration
19. 19.BOOK II THE HISTORY OF PORTUGAL FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT
20. 20.CHAPTER I. EARLY HISTORY TO JOÃO I — LAND AND PEOPLE — THE ORIGIN OF PORTUGAL — HERCULANO’S ESTIMATE OF THE FIRST PORTUGUESE KING — REIGNS OF SANCHO I AND ALFONSO II — SANCHO II CALLED CAPELLO, “THE HOODED” — SANCHO DEPOSED, ALFONSO III SUCCEEDS (1245 A.D.) — POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF ALFONSO’S REIGN — DOM DINIZ — THE ROMANCE OF IÑES DE CASTRO — PEDRO THE SEVERE — FOOTNOTES
21. 21.CHAPTER II. THE PERIOD OF GLORY AND DISCOVERY — THE TAKING OF CEUTA (1415 A.D.) — PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR — THE REIGN OF DUARTE OR EDWARD (1433-1438 A.D.) — THE REGENCY OF PEDRO — ALFONSO V AND LA BELTRANEJA — REIGN OF JOÃO II “THE PERFECT” — Character of João II — PROGRESS IN DISCOVERY — Martius’ Account of Vasco and Cabral — THE CONQUEST OF INDIA — EMMANUEL THE FORTUNATE — THE GREAT VOYAGE OF MAGELLAN — FOOTNOTES
22. 22.CHAPTER III. THE FALL, THE CAPTIVITY, AND THE REVOLUTION — THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA, INDIA, AND BRAZIL — ENNES’ ACCOUNT OF THE DECADENCE OF PORTUGAL — THE REGENCIES AND THE REIGN OF SEBASTIAN (1557-1578 A.D.) — THE DÉBACLE AT KASSR-EL-KEBIR (1578 A.D.) — THE CARDINAL-KING AND THE PORTUGUESE SUCCESSION — PHILIP II OF SPAIN BECOMES PHILIP I OF PORTUGAL — THE ENGLISH IN PORTUGAL — THE FALSE SEBASTIANS — CHAGAS’ ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF THE COLONIES — DOMESTIC DISASTER — PHILIP II (1598-1621 A.D.) — PHILIP III (PHILIP IV OF SPAIN) (1621-1640 A.D.) — ENNES’ ACCOUNT OF THE CONSPIRACY — CHAGAS’ ACCOUNT OF THE 1ST OF DECEMBER (1640 A.D.) — FOOTNOTES
23. 23.CHAPTER IV. JOÃO IV TO JOÃO VI — ALFONSO VI (1656-1667 A.D.) — PEDRO II (1683-1706 A.D.); JOÃO V (1706-1750 A.D.) — The Colonies Decline — THE REIGN OF JOSÉ I — The Great Minister Pombal — The Earthquake at Lisbon (November 1st, 1755) — Pombal and the Jesuits — A Plot to Assassinate the King — The Exile of the Jesuits — War with Spain — Schlosser’s Estimate of Pombal — THE NEW QUEEN AND REACTION — THE REGENCY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION — THE INVASION OF THE FRENCH (1807 A.D.) — THE THRONE MOVES TO BRAZIL — THE PENINSULAR WAR — PORTUGAL AN ENGLISH PROVINCE — THE REVOLT AND RECALL OF THE KING — THE LOSS OF BRAZIL (1822 A.D.) — FOOTNOTES
24. 24.CHAPTER V. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY — PORTUGAL RECEIVES A NEW RULER AND A NEW CONSTITUTION — DOM MIGUEL SEIZES THE POWER (1827 A.D.) — MARIA II (1834-1853 A.D.) — CABRAL AND THE CHARTISTS IN POWER (1842 A.D.) — THE SEPTEMBRISTS OVERTHROW COSTA CABRAL — PEDRO V (1855-1861 A.D.) — THE REIGN OF LUIZ (1861-1889 A.D.) — CARLOS I BECOMES KING (1889 A.D.) — PORTUGUESE LITERATURE — FOOTNOTES
25. 25.APPENDIX A. THE INQUISITION [187] — THE CATHARI — THE WALDENSES — CRUSADE AGAINST THE ALBIGENSES — THE INQUISITION ESTABLISHED — METHOD OF PROCEDURE WITH A SUSPECT — JOHN FOXE ON THE EVILS OF THE INQUISITION — HOW A PENITENT WAS TREATED — THE HISTORY OF TORTURE — A Contemporary Account of the Preliminaries to Torture — LIMBORCH’S ACCOUNT OF THE FATE OF A JEW — OTHER FORMS OF TORTURE — The Tormento di Toca — The Chafing-dish; The Water-cure — THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST AN ENGLISHWOMAN — INQUISITORIAL DOCUMENTS — How the Record was Kept — The Proper Form of Torture for Women — LATER HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN — State of the Jews in Spain — “Conversion” of the Jews — Queen Isabella persuaded to Persecution — The Inquisition of 1481 — The Spanish or “Modern” Inquisition established — The “Auto da fé” — Torquemada and his Successors — Llorente’s Computation of the Victims of the Inquisition — EFFECTS AND INFLUENCES OF THE INQUISITION — A CATHOLIC VIEW OF THE INQUISITION (C. J. HEFELE) — Another Catholic View (Heinrich Brück) — FOOTNOTES
26. 26.BRIEF REFERENCE-LIST OF AUTHORITIES BY CHAPTERS — Chapter I. Early History to João I — Chapter II. The Period of Glory and Discovery — Chapter III. The Fall, the Captivity, and the Revolution — Chapter IV. João IV to João VI — Chapter V. The Nineteenth Century — Appendix A. The Inquisition
27. 27.A BRIEF RÉSUMÉ OF SPANISH HISTORY (711-1902 A.D. ) — THE KINGDOM OF ASTURIAS; AFTERWARDS CALLED OF OVIEDO, AND THEN OF LEON (711-1037 A.D. ) — RISE OF CASTILE (739-1037 A.D. ) — KINGDOMS OF CASTILE AND LEON (1037-1156 A.D. ) — TEMPORARY SEPARATION OF CASTILE AND LEON (1157-1230 A.D. ) — CASTILE AND LEON FROM THEIR PERMANENT REUNION TO THE ACCESSION OF FERDINAND THE CATHOLIC (1230-1479 A.D. ) — THE KINGDOM OF NAVARRE (711-1515 A.D. ) — CATALONIA (470-1150 A.D. ) — KINGDOM OF ARAGON FROM ITS RISE TILL ITS UNION WITH CASTILE (1035-1479 A.D. ) — ANDORRA (805-1882 A.D. ) — SPAIN AFTER THE UNION OF CASTILE AND ARAGON (1479-1902, A.D. ) — Sixteenth Century — Seventeenth Century — Eighteenth Century — Nineteenth Century — Twentieth Century
28. 28.A BRIEF RÉSUMÉ OF PORTUGUESE HISTORY — Tenth Century — Eleventh Century — Twelfth Century — Thirteenth Century — Fourteenth Century — Fifteenth Century — Sixteenth Century — Seventeenth Century — Eighteenth Century — Nineteenth Century — Twentieth Century
29. 29.A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SPANISH HISTORY BASED ON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT HISTORY; WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
30. 30.A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PORTUGUESE HISTORY BASED ON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED

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