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CHAPTER VII.
Marathon—Battle of Tours—Poema del Cid—Siegeof Vienna by the Turks in 1683—Battle of Morgarten—Battleof Sempach[5]
CHAPTER VIII.
Thermopylæ—Battle of St. Jacques, near Basle—Siegeof Malta in 1565—Destruction of the “SacredBand” in the Greek Revolution—Roncesvalles[55]
CHAPTER IX.
Salamis—Siege of Leyden—Spanish Armada[86]
CHAPTER X.
Sequel of the Life of Miltiades—of Aristides—of Themistocles[127]
CHAPTER XI.
Prosecution of the Persian war—Rise of Athens to maritimeempire and consequent undermining of thearistocratical interest—Administration of Cimon—ofPericles—Education of the Athenians—Commencementof the Peloponnesian war[141]
CHAPTER XII.
Historians of the Plague—Sketch of the four chief pestilencesrecorded—Origin of the disease—Plague ofAthens—Of Constantinople—Of Florence—Of Milan—Stateof medical knowledge—Plague of London [164]
INDEX[232]

HISTORICAL PARALLELS.