Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century

Name: Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Morris, Charles

Morris, Charles

Nineteenth century -- History

England and France on Land and Sea--Nelson Discovers the
      French Fleet in Aboukir Bay--The Glorious Battle of the
      Nile--The Fleet Sails for Copenhagen--The Danish Line
      of Defence--The Attack on the Danish Fleet--How Nelson
      Answered the Signal to Cease Action--Nelson in Chase of
      the French Fleet--The Allied Fleet Leaves Cadiz--Off Cape
      Trafalgar--The "Victory" and Her Brilliant Fight--The Great
      Battle and its Sad Disaster--Victory for England and Death
      for Her Famous Admiral--The British in Portugal--The Death
      of Sir John Moore--The Gallant Crossing of the Douro--The
      Victory at Talavera and the Victor's Reward--Wellington's
      Impregnable Lines at Torres Vedras--The Siege and Capture
      of the Portuguese Fortresses--Wellington Wins at Salamanca
      and Enters Madrid--Vittoria and the Pyrenees--The Gathering
      of the Forces at Brussels--The Battlefield of Waterloo--The
      Desperate Charges of the French--Blücher's Prussians and
      the Charge of Napoleon's Old Guard                             101


                               CHAPTER VI

            From the Napoleonic Wars to the Revolution 1830

  A Quarter Century of Revolution--Europe After Napoleon's
      Fall--The Work of the Congress--Italy, France and
      Spain--The Rights of Man--The Holy Alliance--Revolution
      in Spain and Naples--Metternich and His Congresses--How
      Order Was Restored in Spain--The Revolution in Greece--The
      Powers Come to the Rescue of Greece--The Spirit of
      Revolution--Charles X. and His Attempt at Despotism--The
      Revolution in Paris--Louis Phillippe Chosen as King--Effect
      in Europe of the Revolution--The Belgian Uprising and
      its Result--The Movements in Germany--The Condition of
      Poland--The Revolt of the Poles--A Fatal Lack of Unity--The
      Fate of Poland                                                 116


                              CHAPTER VII

               Bolivar, the Liberator of Spanish America

  How Spain Treated Her Colonies--The Oppression of the
      People--Bolivar the Revolutionary Leader--An Attempt
      at Assassination--Bolivar Returns to Venezuela--The
      Savage Cruelty of the Spaniards--The Methods of General
      Morillo--Paez the Guerilla and His Exploits--British
      Soldiers Join the Insurgents--Bolivar's Plan to Invade
      New Granada--The Crossing of the Andes--The Terror of the
      Mountains--Bolivar's Methods of Fighting--The Victory at
      Boyaca--Bolivar and the Peruvians--The Freeing of the Other
      Colonies                                                       128


                              CHAPTER VIII

                    Great Britain as a World Empire

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Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century

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