Great events : described by distinguished historians, chroniclers, and other writers, ed. by Francis Lieber

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The battle at Thermopylae (B.C. 480) / Herodotus -- The death of Socrates (B.C. 399) / Plato -- The surrender of the Roman army at the Defile near Caudium (B.C. 319) / Livy -- Impeachment of Publius Cornelius Scipio, surnamed Africanus, and of Lucius Cornelius Scipio, surnamed Asiaticus (B.C. 187) / Livy -- Delivery of the 4 Swiss forest districts (Waldstädte) (A.D. 1308) / Tschudi -- The Battle at Sempach (A.D. 1386) / J.V. Muller -- The death of Huss (A.D. 1415) / Theobald -- The conquest of Constantinople (A.D. 1453) / Gibbon -- Martin Luther's appearance before the diet of the German empire, at Worms (A.D. 1521) / Marheinecke -- The siege and surrender of Rhodes (A.D. 1522) / Abbé Vertot -- The sack of Rome (A.D. 1527) / J. Bonaparte -- Henry VIII, king of England and Catharine of Aragon, his queen, before the Legatine court consisting of Cardinals Wolsey and Campeggio (A.D. 1527) / G. Cavendish -
The sieges of Leyden (A.D. 1574) and Ostend (A.D. 1601) / Bentivoglio -- The destruction of the invincible Armada (A.D. 1588) / J. Stowe -- The siege of Zaragoza (A.D. 1808) / Southey & Napier

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