Great events
Subtitle: described by distinguished historians, chroniclers, and other writers
By: ed. by Francis Lieber.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1862
Place of publication: New York
Subjects: Histor; Battle
Table of contents: value: The battle at Thermopylae (B.C. 480) / Herodotus; value: The death of Socrates (B.C. 399) / Plato; value: The surrender of the Roman army at the Defile near Caudium (B.C. 319) / Livy; value: Impeachment of Publius Cornelius Scipio, surnamed Africanus, and of Lucius Cornelius Scipio, surnamed Asiaticus (B.C. 187) / Livy; value: Delivery of the 4 Swiss forest districts (Waldst©·adte) (A.D. 1308) / Tschudi; value: The Battle at Sempach (A.D. 1386) / J.V. Muller; value: The death of Huss (A.D. 1415) / Theobald; value: The conquest of Constantinople (A.D. 1453) / Gibbon; value: Martin Luther's appearance before the diet of the German empire, at Worms (A.D. 1521) / Marheinecke; value: The siege and surrender of Rhodes (A.D. 1522) / Abb©Øe Vertot; value: The sack of Rome (A.D. 1527) / J. Bonaparte; value: Henry VIII, king of England and Catharine of Aragon, his queen, before the Legatine court consisting of Cardinals Wolsey and Campeggio (A.D. 1527) / G. Cavendish; value: The sieges of Leyden (A.D. 1574) and Ostend (A.D. 1601) / Bentivoglio; value: The destruction of the invincible Armada (A.D. 1588) / J. Stowe; value: The siege of Zaragoza (A.D. 1808) / Southey & Napie