VOLUME XIII
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An Outline Narrative of the Great Events,xiii
CHARLES F. HORNE
John Law Promotes the Mississippi Scheme (A.D. 1716),1
LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS
Prince Eugene Vanquishes the Turks
Siege and Battle of Belgrad (A.D. 1717),16
PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY
Bursting of the South Sea Bubble (A.D. 1720),22
LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS
Bach Lays the Foundation of Modern Music (A.D. 1723),31
HENRY TIPPER
Settlement of Georgia (A.D. 1732),44
WILLIAM B. STEVENS
Rise of Methodism (A.D. 1738)
Preaching of the Wesleys and of Whitefield,57
WILLIAM E.H. LECKY
Conquests of Nadir Shah
Capture of Delhi (A.D. 1739),72
SIR JOHN MALCOLM
First Modern Novel (A.D. 1740),100
EDMUND GOSSE
Frederick the Great Seizes Silesia (A.D. 1740)
Maria Theresa Appeals to the Hungarians,108
WILLIAM SMYTH
Defeat of the Young Pretender at Culloden (A.D. 1746)
Last of the Stuarts,117
JUSTIN McCARTHY
Benjamin Franklin Experiments with Electricity (A.D. 1747),130
JOHN BIGELOW AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Voltaire Directs European Thought from Geneva (A.D. 1755),144
JOHN MORLEY
GEORGE W. KITCHIN
Braddock's Defeat (A.D. 1755),163
WINTHROP SARGENT
GEORGE WASHINGTON
CAPTAIN DE CONTRECŒUR
Exile of the Acadian Neutrals (A.D. 1755),181
WILLIAM H. WITHROW
Clive Establishes British Supremacy in India
Black Hole of Calcutta: Battle of Plassey (A.D. 1756),185
SIR ALEXANDER J. ARBUTHNOT
Seven Years' War (A.D. 1756-1763)
Battle of Torgau,204
WOLFGANG MENZEL
FREDERICK THE GREAT
Conquest of Canada
Victory of Wolfe at Quebec (A.D. 1759),229
A.G. BRADLEY
Usurpation of Catharine II in Russia (A.D. 1762),250
W. KNOX JOHNSON
Conspiracy of Pontiac (A.D. 1763),267
E.O. RANDALL
American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act (A.D. 1765)
Patrick Henry's Speech,299
JAMES GRAHAME
GEORGE BANCROFT
Watt Improves the Steam-engine (A.D. 1769),302
FRANÇOIS ARAGO
First Partition of Poland (A.D. 1772),313
JAMES FLETCHER
The Boston Tea Party (A.D. 1773),333
GEORGE BANCROFT
Cotton Manufacture Developed (A.D. 1774),341
THOMAS F. HENDERSON
Intellectual Revolt of Germany
Goethe's Werther Arouses Romanticism (A.D. 1775),347
KARL HILLEBRAND
Pestalozzi's Method of Education (A.D. 1775),364
GEORGE RIPLEY
Universal Chronology (A.D. 1716-1775),379
JOHN RUDD