AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL,

COMPRISING

ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY:

THE

BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT MEN

OF EUROPE AND AMERICA,

AND THE

LIVES OF DISTINGUISHED TRAVELERS.

Illustrated with over 100 Engravings.

BY THOMAS H. PRESCOTT, A. M.

COLUMBUS:

PUBLISHED AND SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY SUBSCRIPTION,

BY J. & H. MILLER.

1857.

Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1855, by the
OHIO STATE JOURNAL COMPANY,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern
District of Ohio.

Printed by Osgood and Pearce.
Bound by H. C Behmer.
COLUMBUS, OHIO.