The Great Events of World History - Volume 13

The Great Events of World History continues with Volume 13! Featuring: JOHN LAW PROMOTES THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME, by Louis Thiers PRINCE EUGENE VANQUISHES THE TURKS – SIEGE AND BATTLE OF BELGRAD, by Prince Eugene of Savoy BURSTING OF THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE, by Louis Thiers BACH LAYS THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN MUSIC, by Henry Tipper SETTLEMENT OF GEORGIA, by William Stevens RISE OF METHODISM – PREACHING OF THE WESLEYS AND OF WHITEFIELD, by William Lecky CONQUESTS OF NADIR SHAH – CAPTURE OF DELHI, by John Malcolm FIRST MODERN NOVEL, by Edmund Gosse FREDERICK THE GREAT SEIZES SILESIA – MARIA THERESA APPEALS TO THE HUNGARIANS, by William Smyth DEFEAT OF THE YOUNG PRETENDER AT CULLODEN – LAST OF THE STUARTS, by Justin McCarthy BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EXPERIMENTS WITH ELECTRICITY, by John Bigelow & Ben Franklin VOLTAIRE DIRECTS EUROPEAN THOUGHT FROM GENEVA, by John Morley & George Kitchin BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT, by Winthrop Sargent, George Washington & Captain de Contrecoeur EXILE OF THE ACADIAN NEUTRALS, by William Withrow CLIVE ESTABLISHES BRITISH SUPREMACY IN INDIA, by Alexander Arbuthnot SEVEN YEARS' WAR, by Wolfgang Menzel & Frederick the Great CONQUEST OF CANADA – VICTORY OF WOLFE AT QUEBEC, by A.G. Bradley USURPATION OF CATHARINE II IN RUSSIA, by W. Johnson CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC, by E.O. Randall AMERICAN COLONIES OPPOSE THE STAMP ACT, by James Grahame & George Bancroft WATT IMPROVES THE STEAM-ENGINE, by Francois Arago FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND, by James Fletcher THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY, by George Bancroft COTTON MANUFACTURE DEVELOPED, by Thomas Henderson INTELLECTUAL REVOLT OF GERMANY, by Karl Hillebrand PESTALOZZI'S METHOD OF EDUCATION, by George Ripley