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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—Siegeof Vienna by the Turks in 1683—Battle of Morgarten—Battleof Sempach | 5 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Thermopylæ—Battle of St. Jacques, near Basle—Siegeof Malta in 1565—Destruction of the “SacredBand” 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 maritimeempire and consequent undermining of thearistocratical interest—Administration of Cimon—ofPericles—Education of the Athenians—Commencement[iv]of the Peloponnesian war | 141 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Historians of the Plague—Sketch of the four chief pestilencesrecorded—Origin of the disease—Plague ofAthens—Of Constantinople—Of Florence—Of Milan—Stateof medical knowledge—Plague of London | 164 |
| INDEX | 232 |
HISTORICAL PARALLELS.
CHAPTER VII.
Marathon—Battle of Tours—Poëma del Cid—Siege of Viennaby the Turks in 1683—Battle of Morgarten—Battleof Sempach.
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