CONTENTS
VOLUME XIV
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An Outline Narrative of the Great Events, [xiii]
CHARLES F. HORNE
The Battle of Lexington (a.d. 1775), [1]
RICHARD FROTHINGHAM
The Battle of Bunker Hill (a.d. 1775), [19]
JOHN BURGOYNE
JOHN HENEAGE JESSE
JAMES GRAHAME
Canada Remains Loyal to England
Montgomery's Invasion (a.d. 1775), [30]
JOHN M'MULLEN
Signing of the American Declaration of Independence
(a.d. 1776), [39]
THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN A. DOYLE
The Defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga (a.d. 1777), [51]
SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY
The First Victory of the American Navy (a.d. 1779), [68]
ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE
Joseph II Attempts Reform in Hungary (a.d. 1780), [85]
ARMINIUS VAMBERY
Siege and Surrender of Yorktown (a.d. 1781), [97]
HENRY B. DAWSON
LORD CORNWALLIS
British Defence of Gibraltar (a.d. 1782), [116]
FREDERICK SAYER
Close of the American Revolution (a.d. 1782), [137]
JOHN ADAMS
JOHN JAY
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
HENRY LAURENS
JOHN M. LUDLOW
Settlement of American Loyalists in Canada (a.d. 1783), [156]
SIR JOHN G. BOURINOT
The First Balloon Ascension (a.d. 1783), [163]
HATTON TURNOR
Framing of the Constitution of the United States (a.d. 1787), [173]
ANDREW W. YOUNG
JOSEPH STORY
Inauguration of Washington
His Farewell Address (a.d. 1789-1797), [197]
JAMES K. PAULDING AND GEORGE WASHINGTON
French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille (a.d. 1789), [212]
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Hamilton Establishes the United States Bank (a.d. 1791), [230]
ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR.
The Negro Revolution in Haiti (a.d. 1791)
Toussaint Louverture Establishes the Dominion of his Race, [236]
CHARLES WYLLYS ELLIOTT
Republican France Defies Europe
The Battle of Valmy (a.d. 1792), [252]
ALPHONSE M. L. LAMARTINE
The Invention of the Cotton-gin (a.d. 1793)
Enormous Growth of the Cotton Industry in America, [271]
CHARLES W. DABNEY
R. B. HANDY
DENISON OLMSTED
The Execution of Louis XVI (a.d. 1793)
Murder of Marat: Civil War in France, [295]
THOMAS CARLYLE
The Reign of Terror (a.d. 1794), [311]
FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT
The Downfall of Poland (a.d. 1794), [330]
SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON
The Rise of Napoleon
The French Conquest of Italy (a.d. 1796), [339]
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Overthrow of the Mamelukes (a.d. 1798)
The Battle of the Nile, [353]
CHARLES KNIGHT
Jenner Introduces Vaccination (a.d. 1798), [363]
SIR THOMAS J. PETTIGREW
Universal Chronology (a.d. 1775-1799), [377]
JOHN RUDD
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME XIV
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Charlotte Corday, after the assassination of Marat, apprehended by the Jacobin mob (page 305),
Painting by J. Weerts. [Frontispiece]
The Siege of Yorktown, [108]
Painting by L. C. A. Couder.