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Title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14

Author: Various

Editor: Rossiter Johnson
Charles Horne
John Rudd

Release Date: June 4, 2010 [EBook #32690]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Charlotte Corday, after the assassination of Marat,
apprehended by the Jacobin mob

Painting by J. Weerts.]

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 XIV_

[Illustration]

The National Alumni

COPYRIGHT, 1905,

BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI

CONTENTS

VOLUME XIV

PAGE

_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.