The Great Events of World History - Volume 10

The Great Events of World History, Volume 10! Featuring: ENGLAND LOSES HER LAST FRENCH TERRITORY BATTLE OF ST. QUENTIN, by Charles Knight REIGN OF ELIZABETH, by Henry Cleveland JOHN KNOX HEADS THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS, by P. Brown & Thomas Carlyle MARY STUART: HER REIGN AND EXECUTION, by Algernon Swinburne FOUNDING OF ST. AUGUSTINE MASSACRE OF THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA, by George Fairbanks REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS AGAINST SPAIN, Friedrich Schiller LEPANTO: DESTRUCTION OF THE TURKISH NAVAL POWER, by William Stirling-Maxwell MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW, by Henry White, Isaac D'Israeli & John Rudd HEROIC AGE OF THE NETHERLANDS SIEGE OF LEYDEN, by Thomas Henry Dyer SEARCH FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE BY FROBISHER, by George Best BUILDING OF THE FIRST THEATRE IN ENGLAND, by Karl Mantzius COSSACK CONQUEST OF SIBERIA, by Nikolai Karamzin FIRST COLONY OF ENGLAND BEYOND SEAS, by Moses Harvey ASSASSINATION OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE, by John Motley NAMING OF VIRGINIA: FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIANS THE LOST COLONY, by Arthur Barlow & R.R. Howison DRAKE CAPTURES CARTAGENA, by Julian Corbett DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA, by Edward Creasy HENRY OF NAVARRE ACCEPTS CATHOLICISM HE IS ACKNOWLEDGED KING OF FRANCE, by Maximilien de Bethune CULMINATION OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE IN "HAMLET", by James Halliwell-Phillipps DOWNFALL OF IRISH LIBERTY "FLIGHT OF THE EARLS", by Justin McCarthy THE GUNPOWDER PLOT, by Samuel Gardiner CERVANTES' "DON QUIXOTE" REFORMS LITERATURE, by Henry Watts EARLIEST POSITIVE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA, by Louis Becke & Walter Jeffery SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA CHARTER UNDER WHICH AMERICA WAS COLONIZED, by R. R. Howison FOUNDING OF QUEBEC CHAMPLAIN ESTABLISHES FRENCH POWER IN CANADA, by H.H. Miles

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