Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. [Illustration: Charlotte Corday, after the assassination of Marat, apprehended by the Jacobin mob Painting by J. Weerts.] 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 XIV_ [Illustration] The National Alumni COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI CONTENTS VOLUME XIV PAGE _An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE _The Battle of Lexington (A.D. 1775)_, 1 RICHARD FROTHINGHAM _The Battle of Bunker Hill (A.D. 1775)_, 19 JOHN BURGOYNE JOHN HENEAGE JESSE JAMES GRAHAME _Canada Remains Loyal to England_ _Montgomery's Invasion (A.D. 1775)_, 30 JOHN M'MULLEN _Signing of the American Declaration of Independence (A.D. 1776)_, 39 THOMAS JEFFERSON JOHN A. DOYLE _The Defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga (A.D. 1777)_, 51 SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY _The First Victory of the American Navy (A.D. 1779)_, 68 ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE _Joseph II Attempts Reform in Hungary (A.D. 1780)_, 85 ARMINIUS VAMBERY _Siege and Surrender of Yorktown (A.D. 1781)_, 97 HENRY B. DAWSON LORD CORNWALLIS _British Defence of Gibraltar (A.D. 1782)_, 116 FREDERICK SAYER _Close of the American Revolution (A.D. 1782)_, 137 JOHN ADAMS JOHN JAY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HENRY LAURENS JOHN M. LUDLOW _Settlement of American Loyalists in Canada (A.D. 1783)_, 156 SIR JOHN G. BOURINOT _The First Balloon Ascension (A.D. 1783)_, 163 HATTON TURNOR _Framing of the Constitution of the United States (A.D. 1787)_, 173 ANDREW W. YOUNG JOSEPH STORY _Inauguration of Washington_ _His Farewell Address (A.D. 1789-1797)_, 197 JAMES K. PAULDING AND GEORGE WASHINGTON _French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille (A.D. 1789)_, 212 WILLIAM HAZLITT Hamilton Establishes the United States Bank (A.D. 1791), 230 ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR.