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THE GREAT EVENTS - BY - FAMOUS HISTORIANS
NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - VOLUME XIV
BATTLE OF LEXINGTON - a.d. 1775 - RICHARD FROTHINGHAM
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL - a.d. 1775 - JOHN BURGOYNE JOHN H. JESSE JAMES GRAHAME
CANADA REMAINS LOYAL TO ENGLAND - MONTGOMERY'S INVASION - a.d. 1775 - JOHN McMULLEN
SIGNING OF AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - a.d. 1776 - THOMAS JEFFERSON JOHN A. DOYLE
DEFEAT OF BURGOYNE AT SARATOGA - a.d. 1777 - SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY
FIRST VICTORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY - a.d. 1779 - ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE
JOSEPH II ATTEMPTS REFORM IN HUNGARY - a.d. 1780 - ARMINIUS VAMBERY
The collection brings together the leading voices of American and European scholarship to weave a clear, chronological story of the world’s most pivotal moments between 1775 and 1799. Each chapter opens with a brief specialist introduction that frames the event before moving into a narrative drawn from the original masters of the period, allowing listeners to follow the cause‑and‑effect chain with ease. Comprehensive indexes, bibliographies, and suggested reading paths round out the experience, making the material both accessible and useful for deeper study.
Listeners will travel from the opening gunfire at Lexington through the decisive siege of Yorktown, witness the turbulence of the French Revolution—from the storming of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon—and glimpse early scientific breakthroughs such as Jenner’s vaccination and the first balloon ascent. The work balances vivid description with thoughtful analysis, highlighting how ideas, wars, and inventions reshaped societies across continents. Its measured, non‑partisan tone invites anyone curious about how the revolutionary age set the stage for the modern world.
Language
en
Duration
~15 hours (880K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.
Release date
2010-06-04
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
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