_The Negro Revolution in Haiti (A.D. 1791)_ _Toussaint Louverture Establishes the Dominion of his Race_, 236 CHARLES WYLLYS ELLIOTT _Republican France Defies Europe_ _The Battle of Valmy (A.D. 1792)_, 252 ALPHONSE M. L. LAMARTINE _The Invention of the Cotton-gin (A.D. 1793)_ _Enormous Growth of the Cotton Industry in America_, 271 CHARLES W. DABNEY R. B. HANDY DENISON OLMSTED _The Execution of Louis XVI (A.D. 1793)_ _Murder of Marat: Civil War in France_, 295 THOMAS CARLYLE _The Reign of Terror (A.D. 1794)_, 311 FRANÇOIS P. G. GUIZOT _The Downfall of Poland (A.D. 1794)_, 330 SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON _The Rise of Napoleon_ _The French Conquest of Italy (A.D. 1796)_, 339 SIR WALTER SCOTT _Overthrow of the Mamelukes (A.D. 1798)_ _The Battle of the Nile_, 353 CHARLES KNIGHT _Jenner Introduces Vaccination (A.D. 1798)_, 363 SIR THOMAS J. PETTIGREW _Universal Chronology (A.D. 1775-1799)_, 377 JOHN RUDD LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME XIV PAGE _Charlotte Corday, after the assassination of Marat, apprehended by the Jacobin mob (page 305)_, Painting by J. Weerts. Frontispiece _The Siege of Yorktown_, 108 Painting by L. C. A. Couder. AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT EVENTS (THE EPOCH OF REVOLUTION) CHARLES F. HORNE "After us, the deluge!" said Louis XV of France. He died in 1774, and the remaining quarter of the eighteenth century witnessed social changes the most radical, the most widespread which had convulsed civilization since the fall of Rome. "As soon as our peasants seek education," said Catharine II of Russia to one of her ministers, "neither you nor I will retain our places." Catharine, one of the shrewdest women of her day, judged her own people by the more advanced civilization of Western Europe. She saw that it was the growth of ideas, the intellectual advance, which had made Revolution, world-wide Revolution, inevitable.