The Ifs of History

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Author

Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, 1851-1935

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E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, Julia12000, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/toronto)

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English

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D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

History

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eBook-No.

34086

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34086

Release Date

October 16, 2010

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, Julia12000, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/toronto ) — THE IFS OF HISTORY — BY
2. 2.Joseph Edgar Chamberlin — PHILADELPHIA — HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY — Copyright, 1907, — by — Howard E. Altemus
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.THE IFS OF HISTORY
6. 6.CHAPTER I — IF THEMISTOCLES HAD NOT BEATEN ARISTIDES IN AN ATHENIAN ELECTION
7. 7.CHAPTER II — IF THE MOORS HAD WON THE BATTLE OF TOURS
8. 8.CHAPTER III — IF KING ETHELRED OF ENGLAND HAD NOT MARRIED THE NORMAN EMMA
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — IF COLUMBUS HAD KEPT HIS STRAIGHT COURSE WESTWARD
10. 10.CHAPTER V — IF QUEEN ELIZABETH HAD LEFT A SON OR DAUGHTER
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — IF THE PHILARMONIA HAD NOT GIVEN CONCERTS AT VICENZA
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — IF THE SPANISH ARMADA HAD SAILED AT ITS APPOINTED TIME
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — IF CHAMPLAIN HAD TARRIED IN PLYMOUTH BAY
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — IF CHARLES II HAD ACCEPTED THE KINGSHIP OF VIRGINIA
15. 15.CHAPTER X — IF ADMIRAL PENN HAD PERSISTED IN DISOWNING HIS SON WILLIAM
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — IF THE BOY GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD BECOME A BRITISH MIDSHIPMAN
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — IF ALEXANDER HAMILTON HAD NOT WRITTEN ABOUT THE HURRICANE
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — IF LA FAYETTE HAD HELD THE FRENCH REIGN OF TERROR IN CHECK
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — IF GILBERT LIVINGSTON HAD NOT VOTED NEW YORK INTO THE UNION
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — IF THE PIRATE JEAN LAFITTE HAD JOINED THE BRITISH AT NEW ORLEANS
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — IF JAMES MACDONNEL HAD NOT CLOSED THE GATES OF HUGOMONT CASTLE
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — IF ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FATHER HAD MOVED SOUTHWARD, NOT NORTHWARD
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — IF SKIPPER JENNINGS HAD NOT RESCUED CERTAIN SHIPWRECKED JAPANESE
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX — IF ORSINI'S BOMB HAD NOT FAILED TO DESTROY NAPOLEON III
25. 25.CHAPTER XX — IF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN HAD ENFORCED THE LAW IN NOVEMBER, 1860
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI — IF THE CONFEDERATES HAD MARCHED ON WASHINGTON AFTER BULL RUN
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII — IF THE CONFEDERATE STATES HAD PURCHASED THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S FLEET IN 1861 — Transcriber's Note: — Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

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