The Great Events by Famous Historians ; A Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World's History, Emphasizing the More Important Events, And Presenting These as Complete Narratives in the Master-Words of the Most Eminent Historians. Supervising Editor, Rossiter Johnson; Literary Editors : Charles F. Horne, John Rudd; Directing Editor, Walter F. Austin, With a Staff of Specialists

By Johnson, Rossiter

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Title:	The Great Events by Famous Historians ; A Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World's History, Emphasizing the More Important Events, And Presenting These as Complete Narratives in the Master-Words of the Most Eminent Historians. Supervising Editor, Rossiter Johnson; Literary Editors : Charles F. Horne, John Rudd; Directing Editor, Walter F. Austin, With a Staff of Specialists
Author:	Johnson, Rossiter
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Johnson, B. R. (n.d.). The Great Events by Famous Historians ; A Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World's History, Emphasizing the More Important Events, And Presenting These as Complete Narratives in the Master-Words of the Most Eminent Historians. Supervising Editor, Rossiter Johnson; Literary Editors : Charles F. Horne, John Rudd; Directing Editor, Walter F. Austin, With a Staff of Specialists. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Excerpt: It is related that in 1661, on the day following the death of the great Cardinal Mazarin, the various officials of the State approached their young King, Louis XIV. To whom shall we go now for orders, Your Majesty? To me, answered Louis, and from that date until his death in 1715 they had no other master. Whether we accept the tale as literal fact or only as the vivid French way of visualizing a truth, we find here the central point of over fifty years of European history. The two celebrated cardinals, Richelieu and Mazarin, had, by their strength and wisdom, made France by far the most powerful state in Europe. Moreover, they had so reduced the authority of the French nobility, the clergy, and the courts of law as to have become practically absolute and untrammelled in their control of the entire government. Now, all this enormous power, both at home and abroad, over France and over Europe, was assumed by a young man of twenty?three. I am the state, said Louis at a later period of his career. He might almost have said, I am Europe, looking as he did only to the Europe that dominated, and took pleasure in itself, and made life one continued glittering revel of splendor. Independent Europe, that claimed the right of thinking for itself, the suffering Europe of the peasants, who starved and shed their blood in helpless agony these were against Louis almost from the beginning, and ever increasingly against him.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Great Events by Famous Historians, 1 -- Editor?In?Chief Rossiter Johnson, 1 -- AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE, 3 -- CONTINENTAL WARS, 5 -- LATER EFFORTS OF LOUIS XIV, 6 -- CHANGES IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 9 -- GROWTH OF AMERICA, 10 -- LOUIS XIV ESTABLISHES ABSOLUTE MONARCHY, 11 -- NEW YORK TAKEN BY THE ENGLISH, 20 -- GREAT PLAGUE IN LONDON, 25 -- GREAT FIRE IN LONDON, 33 -- DISCOVERY OF GRAVITATION, 37 -- MORGAN, THE BUCCANEER, SACKS PANAMA, 44 -- STRUGGLE OF THE DUTCH AGAINST FRANCE AND ENGLAND, 54 -- DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, 65 -- KING PHILIP'S WAR, 74 -- GROWTH OF PRUSSIA UNDER THE GREATELECTOR, 81 -- WILLIAM PENN RECEIVES THE GRANT OF PENNSYLVANIA, 88 -- LAST TURKISH INVASION OF EUROPE, 94 -- MONMOUTH'S REBELLION, 98 -- REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES, 102 -- THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 111 -- PETER THE GREAT MODERNIZES RUSSIA, 123 -- TYRANNY OF ANDROS IN NEW ENGLAND, 132 -- MASSACRE OF LACHINE, 135 -- SIEGE OF LONDONDERRY AND BATTLE OF THE BOYNE, 140 -- SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS, 146 -- ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND, 155 -- COLONIZATION OF LOUISIANA, 160 -- PRUSSIA PROCLAIMED A KINGDOM, 167 -- FOUNDING OF ST. PETERSBURG, 171 -- BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, 175 -- UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, 182 -- DOWNFALL OF CHARLES XII AT POLTAVA, 187 -- CAPTURE OF PORT ROYAL[1], 198 -- CHRONOLOGY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY EMBRACING THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS -- VOLUME, 202 -- The Great Events by Famous Historians -- i