_Seven Years' War (A.D. 1756-1763)_ _Battle of Torgau_, 204 WOLFGANG MENZEL FREDERICK THE GREAT _Conquest of Canada_ _Victory of Wolfe at Quebec (A.D. 1759)_, 229 A.G. BRADLEY _Usurpation of Catharine II in Russia (A.D. 1762)_, 250 W. KNOX JOHNSON _Conspiracy of Pontiac (A.D. 1763)_, 267 E.O. RANDALL _American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act (A.D. 1765)_ _Patrick Henry's Speech_, 299 JAMES GRAHAME GEORGE BANCROFT _Watt Improves the Steam-engine (A.D. 1769)_, 302 FRANÇOIS ARAGO _First Partition of Poland (A.D. 1772)_, 313 JAMES FLETCHER _The Boston Tea Party (A.D. 1773)_, 333 GEORGE BANCROFT _Cotton Manufacture Developed (A.D. 1774)_, 341 THOMAS F. HENDERSON _Intellectual Revolt of Germany_ _Goethe's_ Werther _Arouses Romanticism (A.D. 1775)_, 347 KARL HILLEBRAND _Pestalozzi's Method of Education (A.D. 1775)_, 364 GEORGE RIPLEY _Universal Chronology (A.D. 1716-1775)_, 379 JOHN RUDD LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME XIII PAGE _The charge of the British at Quebec (page 248)_, Painting by R. Caton Woodville. Frontispiece _The British officer reads the decree of exile of the Acadian Neutrals, in the village church_, 184 Painting by Frank Dicksee. AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT EVENTS (FROM VOLTAIRE TO WASHINGTON) CHARLES F. HORNE During the eighteenth century a remarkable change swept over Europe. The dominant spirit of the time ceased to be artistic as in the Renaissance, or religious as in the Reformation, or military as during the savage civil wars that had followed. The central figure of the world was no longer a king, nor a priest, nor a general. Instead, the man on whom all eyes were fixed, who towered above his fellows, was a mere author, possessed of no claim to notice but his pen. This was the age of the arisen intellect.