and of Whitefield_, 57
WILLIAM E.H. LECKY

_Conquests of Nadir Shah_
_Capture of Delhi (A.D. 1739)_, 72
SIR JOHN MALCOLM

_First Modern Novel (A.D. 1740)_, 100
EDMUND GOSSE

_Frederick the Great Seizes Silesia (A.D. 1740)_
_Maria Theresa Appeals to the Hungarians_, 108
WILLIAM SMYTH

_Defeat of the Young Pretender at Culloden (A.D. 1746)_
_Last of the Stuarts_, 117
JUSTIN McCARTHY

_Benjamin Franklin Experiments with Electricity (A.D. 1747)_, 130
JOHN BIGELOW AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

_Voltaire Directs European Thought from Geneva (A.D. 1755)_, 144
JOHN MORLEY
GEORGE W. KITCHIN

_Braddock's Defeat (A.D. 1755)_, 163
WINTHROP SARGENT
GEORGE WASHINGTON
CAPTAIN DE CONTRECOEUR

_Exile of the Acadian Neutrals (A.D. 1755)_, 181
WILLIAM H. WITHROW

_Clive Establishes British Supremacy in India_
_Black Hole of Calcutta: Battle of Plassey (A.D. 1756)_, 185
SIR ALEXANDER J. ARBUTHNOT

_Seven Years' War (A.D. 1756-1763)_
_Battle of Torgau_, 204
WOLFGANG MENZEL
FREDERICK THE GREAT

_Conquest of Canada_
_Victory of Wolfe at Quebec (A.D. 1759)_, 229
A.G. BRADLEY

_Usurpation of Catharine II in Russia (A.D. 1762)_, 250
W. KNOX JOHNSON

_Conspiracy of Pontiac (A.D. 1763)_, 267
E.O. RANDALL

_American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act (A.D. 1765)_
_Patrick Henry's Speech_, 299
JAMES GRAHAME
GEORGE BANCROFT

_Watt Improves the Steam-engine (A.D. 1769)_, 302
FRANCOIS ARAGO

_First Partition of Poland (A.D. 1772)_, 313
JAMES FLETCHER

_The Boston Tea Party (A.D. 1773)_, 333
GEORGE BANCROFT

_Cotton Manufacture Developed (A.D. 1774)_, 341
THOMAS F. HENDERSON

_Intellectual Revolt of Germany_
_Goethe's_ Werther _Arous