VOLUME XIV

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_An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE

_The Battle of Lexington (A.D. 1775)_, 1 RICHARD FROTHINGHAM

_The Battle of Bunker Hill (A.D. 1775)_, 19 JOHN BURGOYNE JOHN HENEAGE JESSE JAMES GRAHAME

_Canada Remains Loyal to England_ _Montgomery's Invasion (A.D. 1775)_, 30 JOHN M'MULLEN

_Signing of the American Declaration of Independence (A.D. 1776)_, 39 THOMAS JEFFERSON JOHN A. DOYLE

_The Defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga (A.D. 1777)_, 51 SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY

_The First Victory of the American Navy (A.D. 1779)_, 68 ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE

_Joseph II Attempts Reform in Hungary (A.D. 1780)_, 85 ARMINIUS VAMBERY

_Siege and Surrender of Yorktown (A.D. 1781)_, 97 HENRY B. DAWSON LORD CORNWALLIS

_British Defence of Gibraltar (A.D. 1782)_, 116 FREDERICK SAYER

_Close of the American Revolution (A.D. 1782)_, 137 JOHN ADAMS JOHN JAY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HENRY LAURENS JOHN M. LUDLOW

_Settlement of American Loyalists in Canada (A.D. 1783)_, 156 SIR JOHN G. BOURINOT

_The First Balloon Ascension (A.D. 1783)_, 163 HATTON TURNOR

_Framing of the Constitution of the United States (A.D. 1787)_, 173 ANDREW W. YOUNG JOSEPH STORY

_Inauguration of Washington_ _His Farewell Address (A.D. 1789-1797)_, 197 JAMES K. PAULDING AND GEORGE WASHINGTON

_French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille (A.D. 1789)_, 212 WILLIAM HAZLITT

Hamilton Establishes the United States Bank (A.D. 1791), 230 ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR.

_The Negro Revolution in Haiti (A.D. 1791)_ _Toussaint Louverture Establishes the Dominion of his Race_, 236 CHARLES WYLLYS ELLIOTT

_Republican France Defies Europe_ _The Battle of Valmy (A.D. 1792)_, 252 ALPHONSE M. L. LAMARTINE

_The Invention of the Cotton-gin (A.D. 1793)_ _Enormous Growth of the Cotton Industry in America_, 271 CHARLES W. DABNEY R. B. HANDY DENISON OLMSTED

_The Execution of Louis XVI (A.D. 1793)_ _Murder of Marat: Civil War in France_, 295 THOMAS CARLYLE

_The Reign of Terror (A.D. 1794)_, 311 FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT

_The Downfall of Poland (A.D. 1794)_, 330 SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON

_The Rise of Napoleon_ _The French Conquest of Italy (A.D. 1796)_, 339 SIR WALTER SCOTT

_Overthrow of the Mamelukes (A.D. 1798)_ _The Battle of the Nile_, 353 CHARLES KNIGHT

_Jenner Introduces Vaccination (A.D. 1798)_, 363 SIR THOMAS J. PETTIGREW

_Universal Chronology (A.D. 1775-1799)_, 377 JOHN RUDD

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