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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
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_An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE
_England Loses Her Last French Territory (A.D. 1558) Battle of St. Quentin_, 1 CHARLES KNIGHT
_Reign of Elizabeth (A.D. 1558-1603)_, 8 HENRY R. CLEVELAND
_John Knox Heads the Scottish Reformers (A.D. 1558)_, 21 P. HUME BROWN THOMAS CARLYLE
_Mary Stuart: Her Reign and Execution (A.D. 1561-1587)_, 51 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
_Founding of St. Augustine (A.D. 1565) Massacre of the Huguenots in America_, 70 GEORGE R. FAIRBANKS
_Revolt of the Netherlands against Spain Rise of the Gueux or Beggars (A.D. 1566)_, 81 FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
_Lepanto: Destruction of the Turkish Naval Power (A.D. 1571)_, 100 SIR WILLIAM STIRLING-MAXWELL
_Massacre of St. Bartholomew (A.D. 1572)_, 119 HENRY WHITE ISAAC D'ISRAELI JNO. RUDD
_Heroic Age of the Netherlands (A.D. 1573) Siege of Leyden_, 145 THOMAS HENRY DYER
_Search for the Northwest Passage by Frobisher (A.D. 1576)_, 156 GEORGE BEST
_Building of the First Theatre in England (A.D. 1576)_ 163 KARL MANTZIUS
_Cossack Conquest of Siberia (A.D. 1581)_, 181 NIKOLAI M. KARAMZIN
_First Colony of England Beyond Seas (A.D. 1583)_, 198 MOSES HARVEY
_Assassination of William of Orange (A.D. 1584) Division of the Netherlands_, 202 JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY
_Naming of Virginia: First Description of the Indians The Lost Colony (A.D. 1584)_, 211 ARTHUR BARLOW R. R. HOWISON
_Drake Captures Cartagena He "Singes the King of Spain's Beard" at Cadiz (A.D. 1586-1587)_, 230 JULIAN CORBETT
_Defeat of the Spanish Armada (A.D. 1588)_, 251 SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY