PERVISING EDITOR
ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.

LITERARY EDITORS
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.

DIRECTING EDITOR
WALTER F. AUSTIN, LL.M.

_With a staff of specialists
VOLUME VI_

The National Alumni

CONTENTS

VOLUME VI
PAGE

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

_Archiepiscopate of Thomas Becket_
_His Defence of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction_
_His Assassination (A.D. 1162-1170)_,
JOHN LINGARD 1

_The Peace of Constance Secures the Liberties of
the Lombard Cities (A.D. 1183)_,
ERNEST F. HENDERSON 28

_Saladin Takes Jerusalem from the Christians
(A.D. 1187_),
SIR GEORGE W. COX 41

_The Third Crusade (A.D. 1189-1194)_,
HENRY VON SYBEL 54

_The Teutonic Knights_
_Their Organization and History (A.D. 1190-1809)_,
F.C. WOODHOUSE 68

_Philip of France Wins the French Domains of the
English Kings (A.D. 1202-1204)_,
KATE NORGATE 86

_Founding of the Mongol Empire by Genghis Khan
(A.D. 1203),
HENRY H. HOWORTH 103

_Venetians and Crusaders Take Constantinople_
_Plunder of the Sacred Relics (A.D. 1204),
EDWIN PEARS 121

_Latin Empire of the East_
_Its Foundation and Fall (A.D. 1204-1261)_,
W.J. BRODRIBB
SIR WALTER BESANT 140

_Innocent III Exalts the Papal Power (A.D. 1208)_,
T.F. TOUT 156

_Signing of Magna Charta (A.D. 1215)_,
DAVID HUME 175

_The Golden Bull, "Hungary's Magna Charta," Signed
(A.D. 1222)_,
E.O.S., 191

_Russia Conquered by the Tartar Hordes_
_Alexander Nevski Saves the Remnant of His People
(A.D. 1224-1262)_,
ALFRED RAMBAUD 196

_The Sixth Crusade_
_Treaty of Frederick II with the Saracens
(A.D. 1228)_,
SIR GEORGE W. COX 208

_Rise of the Hanseatic League (A.D. 1241)_,
H. DENICKE 214

_Mamelukes Usurp Power in Egypt (