Ten Great Events in History

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James Johonnot. Ten Great Events in History

TEN GREAT EVENTS. IN. HISTORY. COMPILED AND ARRANGED. BY JAMES JOHONNOT

PREFACE

CONTENTS

IV. BRUCE AND BANNOCKBURN. 66

CHAPTER I. DEFENSE OF FREEDOM BY GREEK VALOR

CHAPTER II. CRUSADES AND THE CRUSADERS

THE FIRST CRUSADE

THE SECOND CRUSADE

THE THIRD CRUSADE

THE FOURTH CRUSADE

THE FIFTH CRUSADE

THE SIXTH CRUSADE

THE SEVENTH CRUSADE

THE EIGHTH CRUSADE

THE NINTH CRUSADE

CHAPTER III. DEFENSE OF FREEDOM IN ALPINE PASSES

ARNOLD WINKELRIED

CHAPTER IV. BRUCE AND BANNOCKBURN

BRUCE'S ADDRESS

CHAPTER V. COLUMBUS AND THE NEW WORLD. THE TIME

THE IDEA

THE WAITING

THE VOYAGE

THE REWARD

CHAPTER VI. DEFENCE OF FREEDOM ON DUTCH DIKES

CHAPTER VII. THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA

SPAIN BEFORE THE ARMADA

CHARACTER AND POLICY OF PHILIP II

ENGLAND'S POWER TO RESIST THE ARMADA

SAILING OF THE ARMADA

WAITING FOR THE ARMADA

HOW THE NEWS SPREAD THROUGH ENGLAND

THE PRELIMINARY SKIRMISH

THE PROGRESS OF THE FIGHT

BRIEF RESPITE FROM BATTLE

FRIGHT AND FLIGHT

RENEWAL OF THE FIGHT

CHASE AND DESTRUCTION

CHAPTER VIII. FREEDOM'S VOYAGE TO AMERICA. DISSENT AND PERSECUTION

JOHN ROBINSON'S CONGREGATION

THE DEPARTURE FROM LEYDEN

THE VOYAGE

LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS

CHAPTER IX. PLASSEY; AND HOW AN EMPIRE WAS WON

EARLY HISTORY

THE MOGUL EMPIRE

EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA

DUPLEIX AND FRENCH POLICY

ROBERT CLIVE AND THE SIEGE OF ARCOT

THE STORY OF THE BLACK HOLE

CLIVE IN BENGAL

THE BATTLE AND ITS RESULTS

CHAPTER X. LEXINGTON AND BUNKER HILL

PAUL REVERE'S RIDE

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Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense. From the earliest times, the sentiment of patriotism has been aroused in the hearts of men by the narrative of heroic deeds inspired by love of country and love of liberty. This truth furnishes the key to the arrangement and method of the present work. The ten epochs treated are those that have been potential in shaping subsequent events; and when men have struck blows for human liberty against odds and regardless of personal consequences. The simple narrative carries its own morals, and the most profitable work for the teacher will be to merely supplement the narrative so that the picture presented shall be all the more vivid. Moral reflections are wearisome and superfluous.

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37. The Athenians returned to their city and found everything in ruins. Fire and hate had destroyed home and temple alike. All the accumulated wealth of generations was gone. Nothing was left but the indomitable energy which had been tested on so many trying emergencies, and the wonderful skill of eye and hand which came of inherited aptitude and long personal experience. Upon the old site a new city grew in a single generation, marvelous in its splendor of temple and palace, so light and airy, yet so strong and enduring, that after the lapse of twenty-five centuries the marble skeletons, though in ruins, stand, the admiration of all men and of all ages.

36. On the death of Chyrkouh, Saladin was appointed to the viziership. The caliph fancied that he would now regain the control of his own dominions, but he little knew the character of his new vizier. Saladin soon effected a revolution in Egypt, declared the Fatimite dynasty to be at an end, and subjected the country once more to the nominal authority of the Bagdad caliphs, whom Noureddin professed to reverence as the supreme heads of the Mohammedan Empire. Nor did he stop here. He soon showed a disposition to shake off the supremacy of Noureddin, and the sultan of Aleppo was marching into Egypt to vindicate his authority, when he suddenly died in the year 1171.

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