TAILIEUCHUNG - The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14

"After us, the deluge!" said Louis XV of France. He died in 1774, and the remaining quarter of the eighteenth century witnessed social changes the most radical, the most widespread which had convulsed civilization since the fall of Rome. "As soon as our peasants seek education," said Catharine II of Russia to one of her ministers, "neither you nor I will retain our places." Catharine, one of the shrewdest women of her day, judged her own people by the more advanced civilization of Western Europe. She saw that it was the growth of ideas, the intellectual advance, which had made Revolution, world-wide Revolution, inevitable. If we. | The Great Events by Famous Historians 1 MANY BOOKS .NET THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS VOLUME 14 Various Authors COMPLETE UNABHIDŨED The Great Events by Famous Historians The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Events by Famous Historians Volume 14 by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at 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 Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT EVENTS VOLUME 14 Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http . Illustration Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat apprehended by the Jacobin mob Painting by J. Weerts. The Great Events by Famous Historians 2 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 . ASSOCIATE EDITORS CHARLES F. HORNE . JOHN RUDD . 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 . 1775 1 RICHARD FROTHINGHAM The Great Events by Famous Historians 3 The Battle

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