TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —This work is divided into three volumes, all of them available on PG; index is on third volume. It has been splitted replacing every item in the volume where they belong. A full version of index has been mantained at the end of third volume. HISTORICAL PARALLELS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET. 1846. LONDON: WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER VII. Marathon—Battle of Tours—Poema del Cid—Siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683—Battle of Morgarten—Battle of Sempach 5 CHAPTER VIII. Thermopylæ—Battle of St. Jacques, near Basle—Siege of Malta in 1565—Destruction of the “Sacred Band” in the Greek Revolution—Roncesvalles 55 CHAPTER IX. Salamis—Siege of Leyden—Spanish Armada 86 CHAPTER X. Sequel of the Life of Miltiades—of Aristides—of Themistocles 127 CHAPTER XI. Prosecution of the Persian war—Rise of Athens to maritime empire and consequent undermining of the aristocratical interest—Administration of Cimon—of Pericles—Education of the Athenians—Commencement of the Peloponnesian war 141 CHAPTER XII. Historians of the Plague—Sketch of the four chief pestilences recorded—Origin of the disease—Plague of Athens—Of Constantinople—Of Florence—Of Milan—State of medical knowledge—Plague of London 164 INDEX 232 HISTORICAL PARALLELS. CHAPTER VII. [Illustration] Marathon—Battle of Tours—Poëma del Cid—Siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683—Battle of Morgarten—Battle of Sempach.