The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04

by Unknown

• [An Outline Narrative of the Great Events]
  CHARLES F. HORNE
• [Visigoths Pillage Rome (A.D. 410)]
  EDWARD GIBBON
• [Huns Invade the Eastern Roman Empire
  Attila Dictates a Treaty of Peace (A.D. 441)]
  EDWARD GIBBON
• [The English Conquest of Britain (A.D. 449-579)]
  JOHN R. GREEN
  CHARLES KNIGHT
• [Attila Invades Western Europe
  Battle of Châlons (A.D. 451)]
  SIR EDWARD S. CREASY
  EDWARD GIBBON
• [Foundation of Venice (A.D. 452)]
  THOMAS HODGKIN
  JOHN RUSKIN
• [Clovis Founds the Kingdom of the Franks
  It Becomes Christian (A.D. 486-511)]
  FRANÇOIS P.G. GUIZOT
• [Publication of the Justinian Code (A.D. 529-534)]
  EDWARD GIBBON
• [Augustine's Missionary Work in England (A.D. 597)]
  THE VENERABLE BEDE
  JOHN R. GREEN
• [The Hegira: Career of Mahomet
  The Koran: and Mahometan Creed (A.D. 622)]
  WASHINGTON IRVING
  SIMON OCKLEY
• [The Saracen Conquest of Syria (A.D. 636)]
  SIMON OCKLEY
• [Saracens Conquer Egypt
  Destruction of the Library at Alexandria (A.D. 640)]
  WASHINGTON IRVING
• [Evolution of the Dogeship in Venice (A.D. 697)]
  WILLIAM C. HAZLITT
• [Saracens in Spain
  Battle of the Guadalete (A.D. 711)]
  AHMED IBN MAHOMET AL-MAKKARI
• [Battle of Tours (A.D. 732)]
  SIR EDWARD S. CREASY
• [Founding of the Carlovingian Dynasty
  Pépin the Short Usurps the Frankish Crown (A.D. 751)]
  FRANÇOIS P.G. GUIZOT
• [Career of Charlemagne (A.D. 772-814)]
  FRANÇOIS P.G. GUIZOT
• [Egbert Becomes King of the Anglo-Saxon
  Heptarchy (A.D. 827)]
  DAVID HUME
• [Universal Chronology (A.D. 410-842)]
  JOHN RUDD

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME IV

• [A captive's wife pleads with the barbarian chief for the life of her husband, Frontispiece
  Painting by R. Peacock.]
• [Mahomet, preaching the unity of God, enters Mecca
  at the head of his victorious followers,
  Painting by A. Mueller.]

A captive's wife pleads with the barbarian chief for the life of her husband, Frontispiece
Painting by R. Peacock.

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