BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINES

BRITISH HISTORY.

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INDEX.

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à-Becket, Thos. [10]
Abercrombie, Sir Ralph [56]
Addison, Joseph [37]
Agricola [3]
Alban, Saint [3]
Alfred, King [6]
Arkwright, Sir Richard [52]
Arthur, King [4]
Asser [7]
Augustine, Saint [5]
Bacon, Francis [29]
Bacon, Roger [11]
Barbauld, Mrs. [67]
Bede, Venerable [6]
Black Prince [17]
Blackstone, Sir William [49]
Blake, Admiral [32]
Boadicea [2]
Brindley, James [46]
Bruce, Sir Robert [14]
Brunel, Sir I. K. [81]
Bunyan, John [35]
Burke, Edmund [54]
Butler, Joseph [41]
Byron, Lord [67]
Cabot, Sebastian [24]
Cæsar, Julius [1]
Campbell, Thomas [74]
Canute [8]
Caractacus [2]
Caxton, William [20]
Cecil, William [26]
Chantrey, Sir Francis [73]
Chaucer [18]
Clive, Lord [46]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor [72]
Constantine [4]
Cook, Captain [48]
Cornwallis, Lord [57]
Cowper, William [56]
Crabbe, George [69]
Cranmer, Thomas [23]
Davy, Sir Humphrey [68]
Defoe, Daniel [40]
Dickens, Charles [84]
Drake, Sir Francis [25]
Dunstan, Saint [8]
Dryden, John [35]
Edgeworth, Maria [77]
Edward I. [3]
Edward III. [16]
Evelyn, John [36]
Fielding, Henry [42]
Flamstead, John [37]
Flaxman, John [68]
Franklin, Sir John [76]
Fry, Mrs. Elizabeth [74]
Fox, Charles James [60]
Gainsborough, Thos. [51]
Garrick, David [48]
Gibbon, Edward [53]
Gildas the Wise [5]
Goldsmith, Oliver [47]
Gower, John [18]
Hampden, John [30]
Harvey, Dr. [33]
Hastings, Warren [63]
Hengist and Horsa [4]
Henry V. [18]
Herschel, Sir William [65]
Hogarth, William [43]
Hume, David [47]
Jenner, Dr. [66]
Johnson, Dr. [49]
Jones, Inigo [32]
Jonson, Ben [30]
Keats, John [64]
Keble, John [83]
Kemble, John [66]
Ken, Bishop [36]
Langton, Cardinal [11]
Laud, William [31]
Lawrence, Sir Thomas [69]
Lely, Sir Peter [34]
Llewellyn [13]
Locke, John [36]
Marlborough, Duke of [38]
Milton, John [34]
Montfort, Simon de [12]
Moore, Sir John [62]
Moore, Thomas [80]
More, Hannah [71]
More, Sir Thomas [22]
Mortimer, Roger [15]
Nelson, Lord [57]
Neville, Earl of Warwick [19]
Newton, Sir Isaac [40]
O’Connell, Daniel [75]
Palmerston, Lord [82]
Park, Mungo [61]
Paulinus [2]
Peel, Sir Robert [77]
Peter the Hermit [9]
Philippa, Queen [16]
Pitt, Lord Chatham [47]
Pitt, William [59]
Pope, Alexander [41]
Raleigh, Sir Walter [28]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua [53]
Richard Cœur de Lion [10]
Richardson, Samuel [43]
Rodney, Lord [52]
Rogers, Samuel [80]
Scott, Sir Walter [70]
Shakespeare [28]
Shelley, Sir Percy [65]
Sheridan [62]
Sidney, Sir Philip [24]
Smollett [45]
Southey [73]
Spenser, Edmund [27]
Steele [40]
Sterne [44]
Stephenson, Sir Robert [81]
Stuart, James [44]
Stuart, Charles Edward [49]
Swift, Dean [41]
Taylor, Jeremy [83]
Thackeray, William M. [82]
Tyndale, William [23]
Tyrrell, Sir Walter [9]
Vandyke [31]
Wallace, Sir William [13]
Walsingham, Sir Francis [25]
Watt, James [64]
Wedgwood, Josiah [53]
Wellington, Duke of [79]
Wesley, John [51]
Whitfield, George [45]
Wilberforce, William [71]
Wilkie, Sir David [72]
Wolfe, General [42]
Wolsey, Cardinal [20]
Wordsworth, William [78]
Wren, Sir Christopher [39]

JULIUS CÆSAR.

B.C. 100–44.

This greatest of the Roman generals, and afterwards the first Roman emperor, having subdued the whole of Gaul, beyond and on this side the Alps (now France, Switzerland, and part of Italy), invaded Britain, and landing near Deal, defeated the Britons and obliged them to pay tribute, B.C. 55. The next year he led a second and larger army to Britain, and having conquered the British tribes in several battles, he took possession of the southern provinces, and paved the way for the total occupation of Britain by the Romans.

CARACTACUS.

Died A.D. 43.

A brave British general (son of a native king, Cunobolin) who resisted the Romans when, under the Emperor Claudius, they extended their conquests in Britain. Taken prisoner to Rome, and led in triumph, he expressed his surprise that a nation possessed of such magnificence could covet his humble cottage in Britain.