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VOLUMES

• Thomas H. Prescott - The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel

• Captain Grose - Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
• Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

HISTORY

Ancient History • Ethiopian History • Mongolian History - The Chinese • Caucasian History• Ancient India • History of the Eastern Nations till their Incorporation in the Persian Empire • The Egyptians • Arabia • Syria • The Phoenicians • Palestine - The Jews • The Assyrians and Babylonians • The Medes and Persians • States of Asia Minor - The Lydians • The Persian Empire • Continuation Through Greek and Roman History

History of Greece • Early Mythology • Second or Authentic Period of History • Sparta - Lycurgus • Third Period of History - Persian Invasion • Pericles • Alcibiades • Decline of Athenian Independence - Condition of Athens • Alexander the Great • Concluding Period of Greek History

History of Rome • Original Roman Constitution - Early History under the Kings - Origin of the Plebeians • The Commonwealth to the Gaulish Invasion - Struggle Between the Patricians and Plebeians • Gradual Conquest of the Peninsula - Italy Under the Roman Rule • The Punic Wars - Subjugation of Foreign Nations - Administration of the Provinces • The Revolutions of the Gracchi • The Jugurthine, Cimbric, and Social Wars - Marius And Sulla • Pompey - Cicero - Catiline - Caesar • The Triumvirate - Caesar's Gallic Wars - War Between Caesar and Pompey. • Extinction of the Commonwealth - Dictatorship and Death of Caesar - The Second Triumvirate - Civil Wars of Mark Antony and Octavianus • Condition of the Empire under Augustus • The Success of Augustus - Dissemination of Christianity - Division of the Empire • Downfall of the Western Empire

History of the Middle Ages • The Eastern Empire to the Twelfth Century • Arabia - Mohammed - Empire of the Saracens • From the Destruction of Rome to the Age of Charlemagne - Origin of the Feudal System • Charlemagne - The New Western Empire • France from the Time of Charles the Bald to the Eleventh Century • The German Empire before the Eleventh Century • From the Ninth to the Eleventh Century • General State of Europe in the Eleventh Century • The Crusades • Institution of Chivalry, etc. • From the Crusades to the Middle of the Fifteenth Century - Rise of Some New Powers • The Italian Republics - Commerce in General • The Turks - Fall of Constantinople • Rise of Civil Freedom and Social Improvement

Modern History • History of Great Britain and Ireland • Conquest by the Romans • Conquest by the Saxons • Conquest by the Normans • Early Norman Kings • Richard C?ur de Lion - John - Magna Charta • Henry III - Origin of Parliament • Edward I and II - Attempted Conquest of Scotland • Edward III - Richard II • House of Lancaster • House of York • House of Tudor - Henry VII • Henry VIII • The Reformation • Edward VI - Queen Mary • Elizabeth - Mary, Queen of Scots - Reformation in Scotland • Government of Elizabeth • War in the Netherlands • Death of Mary, Queen of Scots • Spanish Armada - Rebellion In Ireland • Conclusion of the Reign of Elizabeth • The Stuarts - James I • Gunpowder Plot • Plantations in Ireland • The King's Children - The Spanish Match • Features of the Government of James I • Charles I - His Contentions with the House of Commons • The Long Parliament - The Irish Rebellion • The Civil War • Solemn League and Covenant • Conclusion of the Civil War • Trial and Execution of the King • The Commonwealth - Subjugation of Ireland and Scotland • The Protectorate • The Restoration - Dutch War • Plague and Fire of London - Persecution in Scotland • The Triple Alliance - The French Alliance • The Rye-house Plot - Death of Charles II • James II - Expedition Of Monmouth • Arbitrary Measures of The King • The Revolution • Resistance in Scotland and Ireland • Reign of William III • Queen Anne - Marlborough's Campaigns • Union of England and Scotland • Peace of Utrecht - Death of Queen Anne • Accession of the House of Hanover - Rebellion of 1715-16 • George II - War with Spain • Rebellion of 1745-46 • George III- Bute Administration - Peace of 1763 • American Stamp Act • The American War of Independence • French Revolution, and Consequent War with France • Threatened Invasion - Subsequent Events • Rebellion in Ireland - Union with Great Britain • Change of Ministry, and Peace of Amiens, 1801 • War Renewed with France, 1803 - Subsequent Events • First Peninsular Campaign - Subsequent Events • Successes of Wellington in Spain • Events of 1811, 1812, and 1813 • Home Affairs - War with America • Peace of 1814 - Subsequent Events • Reign of George IV • Reign of William IV • Commencement of the Present Reign • War with Russia - Alliance of England, France and Turkey

History of France - Clovis, A. D. 486 ; division of his Empire - The Merovingian Kings - The Carlovingians - Pepin - Charles Martel - Charlemagne; his Empire - Louis - Division of the Empire - Charles - Arnulf - Charles the Simple - Invasion of the Normans - Hugh Capet and his Successors - Philip VI of Valois - Wars with England, 1328-1415 - Charles VI - Maid of Orleans - Louis XI - Francis II • France during the War of Religion - Persecution of the Huguenots - Coligni - The Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572 - Henry III - Henry IV - Edict of Nantes • The Age of Louis XIV - Richelieu and Mazarin - Persecution of the Calvinists - Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685 • The Last Days of Absolute Monarchy - The French Revolution - Louis XV - Louis XVI - The French Revolution - National Assembly - Mirabeau, Dante, Marat, Robespierre - The 10th of August - Dethronement of the King - National Convention - Trial and Execution of the King - Jacobins and Girondists - Exclusion of the Girondists from the Convention - Execution of the Queen, Madame Elizabeth, and the Duke of Orleans - La Vendee - Fall of Danton and Camille Desmoulins - Overthrow of Robespierre and the Jacobins - Reconstruction of the Government - Napoleon Bonaparte - Italian Campaign - Expedition to Egypt and Syria - Return to France - The First Consulate - Consul for Life - Duke d'Enghein • Napoleon, Emperor - Austrian Campaign - Russians - Battle of Austerlitz - Confederation of the Rhine - War with Prussia - Alliance of Prussia and Russia - Victory at Friedland - Peace of Tilsit - Occupation of Portugal - Spain - Annexation of the Roman States and imprisonment of the Pope - New war with Austria - Peace of Vienna - Marriage with Maria Louisa - Russian Campaign - Conflagration of Moscow - Retreat of the French - Alliance of Russia, Prussia, etc. - Congress of Prague - Austria - Battle of Leipsic - Retreat of the French - Invasion of France by the Allies - Abdication of Napoleon - Louis XVIII - Escape of Napoleon from Elba - Defeat a Waterloo - Death at St. Helena - Louis XVIII - Charles X - Abdication - Louis Philippe - Revolution - Louis Napoleon - War with Russia and alliance with England and Turkey

History of Spain - Gothic Monarchy - The Moors - Castile - Henry IV - Ferdinand and Isabella - Conquest of Grenada - Christopher Columbus - Discovery of America - Charles V - Hernando Cortez - Conquest of Mexico - Francis Pizarro - Conquest of Peru - Ignatius Loyola - Philip II - War with England - Defeat of the Invincible Armada - Philip III - Banishment of the descendants of the Moors - Philip IV - Accession of the House of Bourbon - Charles III - The Seven Years' War - Charles IV - Ferdinand - Joseph Bonaparte - Alliance of the Spaniards and English - Return of Ferdinand - Isabella II

History of Germany and Austria - Division of the Empire of Charlemagne, and formation of the German Empire - Succession of Henry the Fowler to the throne of Conrad of Franconia - The Germans build cities - Accession of Hildebrand - Pope Gregory III - His Excommunication of Henry IV - Strife of Guelphs and Ghibelines - Pope Adrian IV - Tancred - Richard III of England - The House of Hapsburg succeeds that of Swabia - Death of Albert - Charles IV issues the Golden Bull - Council of Constance - Martyrdom of John Huss and Jerome of Prague - Invention of Printing - Luther; the Reformation - Thirty Years' War - Peace of Westphalia - Insurrection of Hungarians aided by Turks - The War of Succession - Prince Eugene - Maria Theresa - Pragmatic Sanction - Revolt of the Netherlands - Confederation of the Rhine - Congress of Vienna - Hungarian Revolution of 1848

History of Russia - Russia rescued from the Tartars by John Basilowitz - Michael Theodorowitz, First of the House of Romanoff, Czar of Muscovy - Reorganization of Russia by Alexis - Reign of Peter the Great - Foundation and embellishment of St. Petersburg - Succession of the Czarina Catherine - Catherine II - Annexation of the Crimea - Dismemberment of Poland - Kosciusko - Suwarrow - Resignation of Stanislaus - Paul - War against the French Republic - Assassination of Paul - Alexander - Coalition against Napoleon, by Austria and England - Peace of Tilsit - Napoleon declares war against Russia - Smolensko - Burning of Moscow - Constantine - Nicholas - Extirpation of Poland - Siege of Sevastopol by France, England, and Turkey - Death of Nicholas - Succession of Alexander II

History of the United States • Colonial History - Discoveries of Cabot - The Huguenots - Sir Walter Raleigh - Champlain - Henry Hudson - Virginia - Jamestown - John Smith - Pocahontas - Indian War - Gov. Berkeley - Nathaniel Bacon - New England Colonies - Puritans - Principles of their early Government - Quaker Persecution - Pequod Indian War - King Philip - Royal Governors - Salem Witchcraft - Connecticut - Rhode Island - Dutch Settlement of New Amsterdam - Indian War - Annexation of New Amsterdam to the English Colonies, and change of name to N. York - Lord Baltimore - Civil War - Carolina - Wm. Penn - Indian Treaty - Frame of Government - Oglethorpe - Wesley - Whitfield - Principles and characteristics of the Colonists • Contest of the English with the French for the Possession of North America - King William's War - The French War - The Ohio Company - George Washington - Braddock - Gen. Wolfe - Rising Colonial prosperity • The War of American Independence - Stamp Act - N. Y. Congress - War of publications against Britain - Boston Massacre - Tea Party - Lexington - Declaration of Independence - Franklin, Lafayette, Kosciusko - Trenton - Brandywine - Burgoyne's Defeat - Alliance of France and America - Baron Steuben - D'Estaing - Stony Point - Arnold - Col. Hayne - Capitulation of Cornwallis - Treaty at Paris - Washington - Paralyzed condition of the Government - Massachusetts Rebellion 1786 - Formation of Government by the Constitutional Convention • Constitutional History - Federalists and anti-Federalists - Defeat of Harmar and St. Clair - Prohibition of the Slave Trade - Death of Washington - Purchase of Louisiana - War with Tripoli - Embargo Acts - War with England - Campaign of 1812 - American Naval Victories - Perry's victory on Lake Erie - Gen. Harrison - Treaty at Ghent - Battle of New Orleans - Seminole War - Lafayette - Tariff - U. S. Bank - Nullification - Compromise of 1820 - Commercial Bankruptcy - Annexation of Texas - Mexican War - Discovery of Gold in California - Gadsden Treaty

BIOGRAPHY

• Hernando Cortez • William Penn • Benjamin Franklin • Peter the Great • Count Rumford • Nicolas Copernicus • Tycho Brahe • Galileo • Kepler • Newton • Huygens • Halley • Ferguson • Sir William Herschel • Simon Bolivar • Francia, the Dictator • Alexander Wilson • James Watt • John Howard • George Gordon, Lord Byron • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Oliver Goldsmith • Edward Gibbon • David Hume • Alexander Pope • John Adams • Thomas Jefferson • Samuel Adams • James Otis • Fisher Ames • Colonel Aaron Burr • Alexander Hamilton • Patrick Henry • John Hancock • Ethan Allen • Benedict Arnold • Horatio Gates • Thaddeus Kosciusko • Nathaniel Greene • Frederic William Augustus Steuben • Baron de Kalb • Richard Montgomery • Gilbert Motier Lafayette • Israel Putnam • Stephen Decatur • Commodore Isaac Hull • Oliver Hazard Perry • John Marshall • John Paul Jones • General Andrew Jackson • Winfield Scott • Zachary Taylor • John E. Wool • Daniel Webster • Henry Clay • Hon. Judge Woodbury • Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr. • Franklin Pierce • Samuel Finley Breese Morse • M. Daguerre • Victor Hugo • Omar Pasha • Edward Everett • Washington Irving • William Cullen Bryant • George Bancroft • William Hickling Prescott • Hiram Powers

TRAVEL

• Historical Sketch of Naval Architecture • Early Maritime Discoveries • Christopher Columbus • Magellan - First Voyage Round the World • Sir Francis Drake • Henry Hudson • Le Maire and Schouten - First Voyage Round Cape Horn • Voyage of Captain James, for the Discovery of a North-West Passage • Dampier • Captain Woodes Rogers • Captain John Clipperton • Commodore Anson • Byron • Captain Wallis • De Bougainville • Captain James Cook • Captains Portlock and Dixon • Monsieur de la Perouse • George Vancouver • Captain d'Entrecasteaux • Parry's Voyages for the Discovery of the North-West Passage • Sir John Franklin • Travels in Africa. Park Denham, Clapperton, Lander, and Others • Samuel Hearne • John Lewis Burckhardt • James Bruce • John Ledyard • John Baptist Belzoni • George Forster • Edward Daniel Clarke • Richard Pococke • Overland Journey to India