Great events, described by distinguished historians, chroniclers, and other writers
By: collected and in part translated by Francis Lieber
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Battles; History
Notes: Spine title: History of great events.

Caption title: Great events.

Copyright 1840 by Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb.

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Table of contents: title: The battle at Thermopylae (B.C. 480) / Herodotus; title: The death of Socrates (B.C. 399) / Plato; title: The surrender of the Roman army at the Defile near Caudium (B.C. 319) / Livy; title: Impeachment of Publius Cornelius Scipio, surnamed Africanus, and of Lucius Cornelius Scipio, surnamed Asiaticus (B.C. 187) / Livy; title: Delivery of the 4 Swiss forest districts (Waldstädte) (A.D. 1308) / Tschudi; title: The Battle at Sempach (A.D. 1386) / J.V. Muller; title: The death of Huss (A.D. 1415) / Theobald; title: The conquest of Constantinople (A.D. 1453) / Gibbon; title: Martin Luther's appearance before the diet of the German empire, at Worms (A.D. 1521) / Marheinecke; title: The siege and surrender of Rhodes (A.D. 1522) / Abbé Vertot; title: The sack of Rome (A.D. 1527) / J. Bonaparte; title: 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 -; title: The sieges of Leyden (A.D. 1574) and Ostend (A.D. 1601) / Bentivoglio; title: The destruction of the invincible Armada (A.D. 1588) / J. Stowe; title: The siege of Zaragoza (A.D. 1808) / Southey & Napier.