| 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 |
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