LONDON:
CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET.
1846.
LONDON:
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,
STAMFORD STREET.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Siege of Platæa—Numantia—Tyre—Syracuse—Linesof Circumvallation—Siege of Jerusalem—Of LaRéole—Effects of the invention of gunpowder—Siegeof Ostend—Magdeburg—Character of themercenary troops of the seventeenth century—Siegeof Zaragoza | [5] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Corcyrean sedition—Civil wars of Rome—Jacquerie—Factionsof the Circus at Constantinople—Massacreof Sept. 2, 1792 | [78] |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Character of Cleon—Blockade and capture of the Lacedæmoniansat Pylos—Comparison with the captureof Porto Bello by Admiral Vernon—Greek comedy—Sketchof the Knights of Aristophanes—Subsequenthistory of Cleon—Account of the PopishPlot—Character and history of Titus Oates—Mutilationof the Hermæ at Athens | [121] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Athenian expedition against Sicily—Siege of Syracuse—Retreatand destruction of the army—Retreat ofNey in Russia—Retreat of Sir John Hawkwood inItaly | [171] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Sketch of the interval which elapsed between the defeatin Sicily, and the battle of Arginusæ—Battle ofArginusæ—Prosecution and death of the AthenianGenerals—Massacre of the De Witts—End of thePeloponnesian war | [198] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| History and character of Socrates—Account of his death—Prosecutionof John Huss, and Jerome of Prague—Attemptto re–establish Prelacy in Scotland—Brown—Guthrie—Reformationin England—Account of Rowland Taylor | [218] |
| INDEX OF VOLUME III. | [285] |
| GENERAL INDEX OF PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS IN ALL VOLUMES | [286] |