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| The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, 1851 | [1] |
| Prince Albert | [5] |
| The Coup d' État: Eviction of the Judges | [9] |
| The Burial of Wellington | [13] |
| Chapel of St. Helena, Jerusalem | [17] |
| Constantinople | [21] |
| Omar Pasha | [25] |
| The Russian Attack on Sinope | [29] |
| Gatchina Palace, St. Petersburg | [32] |
| Peers and Commoners presenting the Patriotic Address to the Queen on the Eve of the Crimean War | [33] |
| Zouaves looting a Village in the Crimea | [37] |
| Skirmish on the Bulganâk: Maude's Battery coming into action | [41] |
| The Highlanders at the Alma | [45] |
| Lord Raglan | [48] |
| On the Battle-Field of the Alma: the Mission of Mercy | [49] |
| Plan of Sebastopol, showing the Defence | [53] |
| Charge of the Heavy Brigade | [57] |
| General Todleben | [61] |
| Balaclava | [65] |
| The Guards recovering the Sandbag Battery | [69] |
| The Hospital and Cemetery at Scutari, with Constantinople in the distance | [73] |
| The Late Sir W. H. Russell, Correspondent of the Times in the Crimea | [77] |
| The Lady with the Lamp: Miss Nightingale in the Hospital at Scutari | [81] |
| The "Block" at Balaclava | [85] |
| The Zouaves assaulting the Rifle-pits | [89] |
| Sebastopol from the Right Attack | [93] |
| The Emperor Nicholas | [96] |
| Sappers destroying the Russian Trenches | [97] |
| Volunteers of the Flying Squadron firing the Shipping at Taganrog | [101] |
| Marshal Pélissier | [105] |
| The Assault on the Redan | [109] |
| Reconnaissance of French Cavalry in the Baidar Valley | [113] |
| General Simpson | [117] |
| The French in the Malakoff | [121] |
| The Struggle in the Redan | [125] |
| Evacuation of Sebastopol | [129] |
| Sir Colin Campbell | [133] |
| Kars | [137] |
| The repulse of the Russians at Kars | [141] |
| Uniforms of the British Army in 1855 | [144] |
| Napoleon III | [145] |
| The Czar renewing his Army at Sebastopol | [149] |
| Scene during the Preston Strike | [157] |
| The Duke of Newcastle | [161] |
| The Queen opening the Crystal Palace | [165] |
| Chinese Officers hauling down the British Flag on the "Arrow" | [169] |
| Victoria, Hong-Kong, from the Chinese Mainland | [173] |
| Mr. Speaker Denison | [177] |
| Outbreak of the Indian Mutiny: High Caste v. Low Caste | [185] |
| General Hearsey and the Mutineers | [188] |
| The Rebel Sepoys at Delhi | [189] |
| Disarmament of the 26th at Barrackpore | [193] |
| Sir John Lawrence (afterwards Lord Lawrence) | [197] |
| De Kantzow defending the Treasury at Mynpooree | [201] |
| Hodson reconnoitring before Delhi | [205] |
| The Palace, Delhi | [209] |
| Sir Henry Havelock | [213] |
| Memorial at the Well, Cawnpore | [217] |
| The Highlanders capturing the Guns at Cawnpore | [221] |
| How Major Tombs won the Victoria Cross | [225] |
| Blowing up of the Cashmere Gate at Delhi | [229] |
| Hooseinabad Gardens and Tomb of Zana Ali, Lucknow | [233] |
| Sir Hope Grant | [237] |
| Ruins of the Residency, Lucknow | [240] |
| The Mausoleum at Akbar, Agra | [241] |
| Incident in the Defence of Lucknow | [245] |
| Lieutenant Havelock and the Madras Fusiliers carrying the Charbagh Bridge at Lucknow | [249] |
| Sir James Outram | [253] |
| The Slaughter Ghat, Cawnpore | [257] |
| The Relief of Lucknow | [261] |
| Death of Hodson | [265] |
| The Martinière, Lucknow | [269] |
| Sir Hugh Rose (afterwards Lord Strathnairn) | [273] |
| Proclamation of the Queen as Sovereign of India | [277] |
| Gwalior, from the south-east | [281] |
| Capture of Tantia Topee | [285] |
| Lord Canning | [288] |
| Street in Peshawur | [289] |
| Earl Russell | [293] |
| Office of the First Lord of the Treasury, 10, Downing Street, London | [297] |
| Entry of Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel into Milan | [301] |
| Meeting of Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel | [305] |
| William Ewart Gladstone (1860) | [312] |
| Demonstration against the Christians in Damascus | [313] |
| The Imperial Palace, Pekin, looking north | [317] |
| Capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry | [321] |
| General Robert Lee | [325] |
| Funeral of the Prince Consort | [329] |
| Hindoos bringing Cotton through the Western Ghauts | [333] |
| Abraham Lincoln | [336] |
| Marriage of the Prince of Wales | [337] |
| Mr. Phelps planting the Shakespeare Oak on Primrose Hill, London | [345] |
| Scene in the Belfast Riots | [349] |
| Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen | [353] |
| Lord Palmerston | [357] |
| The Fight between the Alabama and the Kearsarge | [361] |
| Confederate Raid into Vermont | [365] |
| The Foreign Office, London, from St. James's Park | [369] |
| Arrest of Head-Centre Stephens | [373] |
| Reception of the French Fleet at Portsmouth | [377] |
| General Grant | [381] |
| Meeting of Lee and Grant at Appomattox Court-House | [384] |
| The Attack on the Court-House, St. Thomas-in-the-East | [385] |
| Street Scene, Kingston, Jamaica | [389] |
| John Stuart Mill | [393] |
| Scene in the House of Commons: a Narrow Majority | [397] |
| The Lobby, House of Commons | [401] |
| Reform Leaguers at the Marble Arch | [405] |
| Arrival of the "Great Eastern" at Trinity Bay | [409] |
| Robert Lowe (afterwards Lord Sherbrooke) | [413] |
| Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin | [417] |
| The Battle of Koniggrätz | [421] |
| The Battle of Langensalza | [425] |
| Count Von Moltke | [429] |
| The Palace, Dresden | [432] |
| The Old War Office, Pall Mall | [433] |
| Lord Malmesbury | [437] |
| Tea-Room, House of Commons | [441] |
| Meeting at the Reformers' Tree, Hyde Park, London | [445] |
| John Bright | [449] |
| "Gang System" of Farming | [453] |
| Fenian Attack on the Police Van in Manchester | [457] |
| Skating Disaster in Regent's Park, London | [461] |
| Lord Cairns | [465] |
| Scene in the Birmingham "No Popery" Riots | [469] |
| Coronation of the Emperor of Austria as King of Hungary | [473] |
| King Theodore's House, Magdala | [477] |
| Mr. Rassam's Interview with King Theodore | [480] |
| The Emperor Theodore granting an Audience | [481] |
| Sir Robert Napier (afterwards Lord Napier of Magdala) | [485] |
| Death of the Emperor Theodore | [489] |
| St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin | [493] |
| Archbishop Trench | [497] |
| Dr. Magee, Bishop of Peterborough, addressing the House of Lords | [501] |
| New Palace Yard, Westminster | [505] |
| The Quadrangle, Somerset House | [509] |
| Sir Stafford Northcote (afterwards Earl of Iddesleigh) | [513] |
| Street-Fighting in Malaga | [517] |
| Mr. Chichester Fortescue (afterwards Lord Carlingford) | [521] |
| A Visit from Captain Moonlight | [524] |
| An Eviction in Ireland | [525] |
| The Duke of Richmond and Gordon | [528] |
| Office of the London School Board, Thames Embankment | [529] |
| Mr. W. E. Forster | [533] |
| Office of the Education Department, Whitehall | [537] |
| Capture of English Tourists by Greek Brigands | [541] |
| The Royal Palace, Athens | [545] |
| The Boulevard Montmartre, Paris | [548] |
| Émile Ollivier | [549] |
| "À Berlin!" Parisian Crowds declaring for War | [553] |
| Prince Bismarck | [557] |
| Franco-German War, Sketch-Map of the Campaign in the Rhine Country | [561] |
| Sedan | [564] |
| Marshal MacMahon | [565] |
| Camden Place, Chislehurst (Napoleon's Home in England) | [569] |
| The Vatican, Rome | [573] |
| Dr. Döllinger | [576] |
| Palace of the Quirinal, Rome | [577] |
| Siege of Paris: Map of the Fortifications | [580] |
| L. A. Thiers | [581] |
| Evacuation of Metz | [585] |
| Léon Gambetta | [589] |
| German Troops passing under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris | [593] |
| Mr. (afterwards Viscount) Cardwell | [597] |
| Procession of Match-Makers to Westminster | [601] |
| The Prince of Wales (afterwards Edward VII.) in his Robes as a Bencher of the Middle Temple | [604] |
| The Thanksgiving Service in St. Paul's Cathedral | [605] |
[LIST OF PLATES]
| WINDSOR CASTLE. (By Alfred W. Hunt, R.W.S.) | Frontispiece | |
| THE OPENING BY QUEEN VICTORIA OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN HYDE PARK. (By H. C. Selous.) | To face p. | [9] |
| THE WRECK OF H.M.S. Birkenhead. (By Thomas M. Henry) | " | [14] |
| SAVING THE COLOURS: THE GUARDS AT INKERMAN. (By Robert Gibb, R.S.A.) | " | [41] |
| THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA. (By R. Caton Woodville) | " | [62] |
| "ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THEM, LEFT OF SIX HUNDRED." (By R. Caton Woodville) | " | [86] |
| QUEEN VICTORIA REVIEWING THE CRIMEAN VETERANS (1854). (By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S.) | " | [90] |
| LORD RAGLAN VIEWING THE STORMING OF THE REDAN AT THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. (By R. Caton Woodville) | " | [126] |
| MAP OF INDIA, 1856. | " | [182] |
| THE FLIGHT FROM LUCKNOW. (By A. Solomon) | " | [217] |
| THE SECOND RELIEF OF LUCKNOW, 1857. (By Thomas J. Barker) | " | [262] |
| THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. (By Sir J. E. Millais, Bart., P.R.A., D. C.L., etc.) | " | [287] |
| QUEEN VICTORIA AT OSBORNE. (By Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.) | " | [326] |
| THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES, 1863. (By G. H. Thomas) | " | [338] |
| A COTTAGE BEDSIDE AT OSBORNE. (Gourlay Steell, R.S.A.) | " | [408] |
| MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS HELENA. (By C. Magnussen) | " | [412] |
| THE WHITE TOWER, TOWER OF LONDON. (By H. E. Tidmarsh) | " | [481] |
| W. E. GLADSTONE. (By Sir J. E. Millais, Bart., P.R.A.) | " | [500] |
| REARING THE LION'S WHELPS. (By W. L. Wyllie, A.R.A.) | " | [544] |
| THE THANKSGIVING SERVICE, 27TH OF FEBRUARY, 1872: THE PROCESSION AT LUDGATE HILL. (By N. Chevalier) | " | [602] |
Reproduced by André & Sleigh, Ltd., Bushey, Herts.
WINDSOR CASTLE.
FROM A WATER-COLOUR PAINTING BY ALFRED W. HUNT R.W.S. IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF BRITISH ART.