CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| 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.