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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 Author: Various Editor: Rossiter Johnson Charles Horne John Rudd Release Date: June 19, 2008 [EBook #25821] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT EVENTS, VOLUME 11 *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. [Illustration: The Imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the window of the castle of the Hradschin, at Prague, by the enraged Bohemian Deputies, thus precipitating the Thirty Years' War Painting by Vacslav Brozik] 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 NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D. ASSOCIATE EDITORS CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. JOHN RUDD, LL.D. _With a staff of specialists_ _VOLUME XI_ [Illustration: Decorative] The National Alumni COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI CONTENTS VOLUME XI PAGE _An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE _Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River (A.D. 1609)_, 1 HENRY R. CLEVELAND _Galileo Overthrows Ancient Philosophy_ _The Telescope and Its Discoveries (A.D. 1610)_, 14 SIR OLIVER LODGE _The Beginning of British Power in India (A.D. 1612)_, 30 BECKLES WILLSON _The Dutch Settlement of New York (A.D. 1614)_, 44 DAVID T. VALENTI
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