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Title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11

Author: Various

Editor: Rossiter Johnson
Charles Horne
John Rudd

Release Date: June 19, 2008 [EBook #25821]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the
window of the castle of the Hradschin, at Prague, by the enraged
Bohemian Deputies, thus precipitating the Thirty Years' War

Painting by Vacslav Brozik]

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 XI_

[Illustration: Decorative]

The National Alumni

COPYRIGHT, 1905,

BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI

CONTENTS

VOLUME XI
PAGE

_An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii
CHARLES F. HORNE

_Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River (A.D. 1609)_, 1
HENRY R. CLEVELAND

_Galileo Overthrows Ancient Philosophy_
_The Telescope and Its Discoveries (A.D. 1610)_, 14
SIR OLIVER LODGE

_The Beginning of British Power in India (A.D. 1612)_, 30
BECKLES WILLSON

_The Dutch Settlement of New York (A.D. 1614)_, 44
DAVID T. VALENTI