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
FRANCOIS 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)_,