(1) [Invention of Printing]
(2) [Invention of Fire-Arms]
(3) [Discovery of a Sea-Route to India]
(4) [Discovery of a World to the West]
(5) [Rise of the English Navy]
(6) [Queen Elizabeth at the Helm]
(7) [Coming Struggle with Spain]
(8) [An Elizabethan Mariner]
(9) [A Celebrated Voyage Round the World]
(10) [Singeing the King of Spain's Beard]
(11) [Arming for the Fight]
(12) [Defeating the "Invincible"]
(13) [Expansion of England into the "United Kingdom"]

[CHAPTER II.]

Early English Colonisation

(1603-1688).

(1) [England's Success in Colonizing]
(2) [England's First Colony]
(3) ["Farewell, dear England"]
(4) [Progress in Colonizing]
(5) [Struggle for the Mastery at Sea]
(6) [Our Great "General-at-Sea"]

[CHAPTER III.]

Expansion by Conquest

(1688-1763).

(1) [What we owe to William of Orange]
(2) [A Famous Victory and a Lucky Capture]
(3) [Grandmotherly Government of the French in Canada]
(4) [Ripening for War]
(5) ["The Great Commoner" and his "Mad General"]
(6) [Capture of a Second Gibraltar]
(7) [First Founder of our Indian Empire]
(8) [Beginning of British Rule in India]

[CHAPTER IV.]