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Title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4
Author: Various
Release Date: March 12, 2005 [eBook #15345]
Language: English
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THE GREAT EVENTS
BY
FAMOUS HISTORIANS
A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS
NON-SECTARIAN
NON-PARTISAN
NON-SECTIONAL
ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.
With a staff of specialists
VOLUME IV
The National Alumni
1905
CONTENTS
VOLUME IV
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
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.
AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE
TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF
THE GREAT EVENTS
(FROM THE FALL OF ROME TO THE EMPIRE OF CHARLEMAGNE)
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