der Greiner, wars with cities, 249.
Egremont, sec. of state, 439.
Egypt, geography, religion, 2; civiliza- tion, chronology, 3 old empire, new empire, 4; stories of Sesostris, 5; not con- quered by Assyrians 961 B. c., 5 n. 2: con- quered by Ethiopians, 6; by Assyrians, 6, 14; revolt of Psamethik, 6; becomes a province of Persia, 7; conquered by Cambyses, 27; under the Ptolemies, 77; conquered by Cæsar, 143; Roman prov- ince, 147; reconquered by Aurelian, 157; by Muhammedans, 182; sixth crusade, 217; revolt of Mehemed Ali, 491; revolt of Arabi Pasha, 546. Eider-Danes, 505. El, 13.
El Dorado, 288.
Elagabalus, Roman emp., 155. Elam, empire of, 13.
Elba, conferred upon Napoleon, 481. Eldon, lord chan., 536.
Eleanor of Poitou, married Louis VII., and afterward Henry of Anjou, 226. Eleanor, wife of Edward I. of England, death of, 264.
Electoral reform bill in Italy, 526. Electors of the H. R. E., 248. Electro-magnetism discovered, 487.
Elgin, lord, viceroy of India, 546; envoy to China, 561.
Eliot, John, missionary, 357. Eliot, sir John, 341, 343. Elisha, 9.
Elissa, founds Carthage, 18. Elizabeth of Bohemia, 341.
Elizabeth of Valois, 324, 330.
Würtemberg, wars with Rudolf I., 244; Elizabeth, q. of England, reign, 338, 339.
Eberwiz. See Chosroes II.
Ecbatana, 24, 25, 26, 28.
Elizabeth, tsarina of Russia, ally of Aus- tria, 403; death relieves Frederic, 405; reign, 411.
Ecclesiastical commission, new court of, Elizabeth Islands, 290.
Eckmühl, battle of, 471.
Eclipse of the sun, 21.
Ecnomus, battle of, 110.
Ecuador, republic of, 488.
Edda, elder and younger, 165. Edessa, captured, 215. Edgehill, battle of, 347.
Elict of Nantes, promulgation, 324; revo- cation of, 369; of restitution, 310; of tolerance of Joseph II., 407. Edinburgh, treaty of, 338; liturgy in, 344; general assembly, 345.
Edmund, St., k. of England, 203. Edward I., k. of England, agreement with Philip IV., of France, 254; reign, 263, 264; reforms, 266; II., reign, 267; III., reign, 268; war with France, 257; laws in Ireland, 269; IV., reign, 272, 274; invades France, 260; V., reign, 275; VI., reign, 336.
Edward the Black Prince, victory of Poitiers, 258; aids Peter the Cruel, 276; death, 269.
Egmont, at Gravelines, 321; sketch of life, execution, 330.
Ellenborough, e. of, gov. gen. in India, 546. Ellichpur, kingdom founded, 353; con-
quered by Auranzeb, 389.
Elster, battle of the, 478. Ely, capture of, 229.
Emadeddin Zenki, 215.
Emancipation of the serfs in Russia, 500.
Emancipation proclamation, 558.
Embargo policy of U. S., 550.
Emir-al-Mumenin, 182; al Omra, 210. Emmanuel Philibert, d. of Savoy, 326. Emmanuel the Great, k. of Portugal, 332. Emmet's insurrection in Ireland, 536. Emund Gammle, k. of Sweden, 208. Enactment of the delegates, 464. Encumbered estates act, 543. Endicott, John, 295, 296. Enghien, d. of. See Condé. Enghien, d. of executed, 465. England. See Britain. Teutonic conquest, 176; West Saxon kings, 203; Danish su- premacy, 206; Norman conquest, 206; Norman kings, 229; house of Plantagenet, large possessions in France, 231; conquest of Ireland, 232; magna charta, 233; par- liament, 234; hundred years' war, 257; loses French possessions, 260; annexation of Wales, 264; reforms under Edward I., 266; first perfect parliament, 267; Scot- land lost, 268; black death, 268; peace
of Bretigny, 268; peasant revolt, 269; house of Lancaster, 270; wars of the Roses, 272; house of York, 272; settle- ments in America, 289, 291-298; house of Tudor, 333; secession from the Ro- man Catholic church, 335; house of Stuart, personal union with Scotland, 339; long parliament, 345; great rebel- lion, 347; execution, of Charles I., 351; British in India, 354; commonwealth, 375; monarchy restored, 378; interreg num, 384; revolution, 385; bill of rights, 386; war of the Spanish succession, 388, 390; protestant succession secured, 393: union with Scotland, 434; peace of Utrecht, 435; house of Hanover, 436; war with Spain, 419, 437; war of the Aus- │ trian succession, 419, 438; peace of Aix- la-Chapelle, 404, 419, 438; adoption of new style, 438; seven years' war, 404, 420, 438, 445; peace of Paris, 422, 439; war with the revolted American colonies, 424, 426, 440: peace of Versailles, 432, 441; armed neutrality, 413, 441; British in India, 443; war with France, 453, 535; with Holland, 535; with Spain, 535; union with Ireland, 463, 536; Peninsula war, 471, 479; treaty of Vienna, 482, 537; Waterloo, 538; war with United States, 474, 551; commercial panic, Catholic emancipation, 539; reform act, 540; ab- olition of slavery, 540; India, 541; Vic- toria, 542; queen, sovereign of India, 544; Irish troubles, 545; India, 545. English Pale, 270.
Enkoping, battle of, 238. Enzio, k. of Sardinia, 225.
Ephialtes, law of, 62. Ephialtes, the traitor, 59.
Ephthialites, wars with Persia, 189, 190. Epigoni, war of the, 47.
Epirus, 41; allied with Macedonia, 79; sub- dued by Flamininus, 119; punished, 121. Episcopacy in England, 338; restored in Scotland, 340; abolished, 344; attempt to introduce, 379; abolished 386; not introduced at the union, 434. Equity, 266.
Eresburg, captured, 185; battle of, 195. Eretria, deserts the Ionians, 28; captured, 57.
Erfurt, assembly of princes at, 471.
Erfurt, parliament of, 498.
Erie canal, 552.
Erigena. See Joannes Scotus.
Erik, Ejegod, k. of Denmark, 208; Glip ping, k. of Denmark, 236; Menved, k. of Denmark, 236.
Erik, Blodoxe, k. of Norway, 208; Graa- fell, k. of Norway, 208; Priest-hater, K. of Norway, 238.
Erik Edmundsson, k. of Sweden, 208; IX., the saint, k. of Sweden, 237; Eriksson Læspe, k. of Sweden, 237; XIV. of Sweden, 352.
Erik the Red, discovery and settlement of Greenland by, 209.
Erikson, Leif and Thorwald, 281. Ermanarich, k. of East Goths, 170.
Ermeland, bishopric of, 373.
Ernestine line in Saxony, 305.
Esthonia, retained by Denmark, 236; re- nounced by Poland, 373.
Estridsen, dynasty in Denmark, 207; ex- tinet. of. 235.
États-Généraux, summoned by Louis XIII. the last time before 1789, 324; sum- moned by Louis XVI., 449. Ethandun, battle of, 204. Ethiopians, attacked by Seti I., 5; founda- tion of the kingdom of Napata, 5; con- quer Egypt, expelled by Eserhaddon, 6, 15; war against, 148. Etruria, kingdom of, 463. Etruscans, expel the Phocæans from Cor- sica, 19; country of, 81; ethnography, 86; war with Rome, 95; Veii taken by Rome, 99; all southern Etruria submits to Rome, 103; share in second Samnite war, 105; in the second, 106; peace with Rome, 108.
Euboea, 41; land given to Athenians, 55; Persian ships lost at, 59; second division of land, 63.
Euclides, laws of, 69.
Eudes, c. of Paris, 201, 202.
Eugene, pr., sketch of life, 370; war with Turks, 372; head of grand alliance, 391, 892: war with Turks, 397, 398. Eugene, viceroy, 472. Eugenie de Montijo, 531. Eugenius, Roman emp., 161. Eugenius IV., pope, 253.
Eumenes, k. of Pergamus, 76, 78; ally of Rome, 119, 120. Eumolpus, 44.
Eupatridæ, 45, 51, 54.
Euphrates, expedition of Seti I. to, 5; Babylon built on, 12; diverted by Cy rus, 26; battle of, 135.
Euripides, 64.
Europa, 18. Eury biades, 59.
Eurymedon, battle of the, 62. Eutaw, battle of, 431.
Everett, Edward, U. S. sec. of state, 555. Evesham, battle of, 234.
Exarchate, 175; given to the papacy, 184. Exchequer, reestablished, 231; closed by Charles II., 380. Exodus of the Jews, 8. Eylau, battle of, 469. Ezekiel, 11.
Ferdinand emp. of H. R. E., relation to Spain, 301, 303; reign, 306; II., 308, 309; III., 314.
Ferdinand VI., k. of Spain, reign, 414; VII., 479, 482, 490.
Ferdinand, k. of Naples, expelled by Napo- leon, 468; reinstated, 484. Ferdinand, k. of Two Sicilies, 416. Ferdinand Joseph, of Tuscany, 416. Ferrex, 37.
Ferry, Jules, ministry of, 534.
Ferry Bridge, battle of, 274.
Fetiales, college of, 85.
Feudal system in China, 32; in Europe,
166; in Japan, 212; in Norway, 208; in England, 229.
Feuillants, 451. Fidenæ, 88.
Fiefs declared hereditary, 201. "Field of Lies," 186.
Fieschi's infernal machine, 529. Fiesco, conspiracy of, 326. Fillmore, Millard, 555. Fimbri, 131.
Financial crisis in U. S., 552, 553.
Finch, sir H., e. of Nottingham, 880. Firbolgs, in Ireland, 39.
Firdusi, 25.
Fire worship, 25.
Fisher's Hill, battle of, 558.
Fisheries, in peace of Paris, 432; partially settled, 560.
Fitz Peter, Geoffrey, 233. Five Forks, battle of, 559.
Flaccus, L. Valerius, 130.
Fletcher, gov. of New York, 362. Fleurus, battle of, 370, 456. Fleury, card., 446.
Flodden Field, battle of, 334.
Florence, under the Medici, 263; Savons- rola, 327; peace of, 463; becomes capi- tal of Italy, 503.
Florida discovered, 284; ceded by Spain to England in 1768, 437; restored to Spain in 1783, 441; sold by Spain to the United States, 552; admitted to the Union, 554.
Foix, Gaston de, 318.
Fokchany, battle at, 413.
Folkunger dynasty, 237.
Fontainebleau, peace at, 406; preliminary articles, 422; Napoleon at, 481. Fontanetum, battle of, 186.
Fontenoy, battle of, 402, 438, 446. Formosa, island of, 31; conquered, 390; re- bellion, 444; Japanese expedition, 564. Forster, W. E., chief sec. for Ireland, 546. Fort Christiana, 298; Donaldson surren- dered, 557; Du Quesne, 420; expedition against, 421; Edward, construction, 421; Erie, captured, 551; Fisher, surrendered, 559 ; George, captured by Montcalm, 421; Henry, captured by Union forces, 557; Moultrie, see Fort Sullivan; Ne- cessity, 420; Orange, built, 298; St. George, built, 294 (see Madras); Pitt, 423; Sullivan, 427; Sumter fired upon, 557; Washington, 428; William Henry, captured by Montcalm, 421. Forum Romanum, 82. Fossalta, battle of, 225. Fotheringay, treaty of, 274. Fouqué, 405.
Fouquier-Tinville, 455, 456. Fox, voyage of, 300.
Fox, Charles James, sketch of life, 441; India bill, libel bill, 585; for. sec., 537. Fox, Henry. See lord Holland. France. See Franks. Capetian dynasty of French kingdom, capital at Paris, 202; royal weakness, 203; loss of Poitou, Guyenne, and Gascony, 226: administra- tion of Suger, 226; Philip II., Augustus, crusades, 226; Bouvines, St. Louis, growth of royal domain, 227; quarrel with Boniface VIII., 254; Courtrai, 254; Salic law, 255; house of Valois, 257; hun- dred years' war, Crécy, 257; black death, Poitiers, 258; peace of Bretigny, 258; Agincourt, 259; Jeanne Darc, English expelled, 260; Burgundy united with crown of France, 262; houses of Orleans and Angoulême, 317, 818; Francis L., 319; wars with Charles V., 302; house of Lorraine and Guise, 320; Brittany united with crown, 820; capture of Ca- lais, 321; St. Bartholomew, 321; wars of the Huguenots 321, 324; house of Bour- bon, 324; Henry IV., edict of Nantes, 324; last states-general, 325; Richelieu, 825; era of Louis XIV., 365; Mazarin, Fronde, 366; France in thirty years' war, 314; peace of Pyrenees, 366; peace of Nimwegen, 368; reunions, 3868; revo- cation of edict of Nantes, 369; peace of Ryswick, 371; golden age of litera
ture, 371 war of Spanish succession, 390; partition treaties, 391; peace of Utrecht 393; Fleury's administration, 446; France in Austrian succession, 400; seven years' war, 404, 424; peace of Paris, 441; Louis XVI., 446; France in war of American independence, 431; first French revolution, 448; storm of Bas- tile, 449; constituent, 449; legislative, 451; convention, 452; first coalition, 452; first republic, 453; directory, 457; second coalition, 460, consulate, 457; third coa- lition, 467 first empire, 465; wars, 468, 471, 474, 475; congress of Vienna, 482; hundred days, 483; restoration of the Bourbons, Louis XVIII., 529; July rev- olution, 529; second republic, 530; sec- ond empire, 531; Crimean war, 499; Franco German, 513; third republic, 532; excesses of the socialistic com- mune, 532; fall of MacMahon, 534; Tonquin, 535.
Franche-Comté, 367, 368. Francis, d. of Alençon, 322. Francis, d. of Guise, 319, 321. Francis I., emp. of Austria, 468.
Francis I., k. of France, reign, 319; II., 321, 338
Francis I., emp. of H. R. E., 402; II., 452; abdicated the crown of the H. R. E., 468. See Francis I., emp. of Austria. Francis II., k. of Two Sicilies, 503. Francis Joseph I., emp. of Austria, 495, 502, 505, 509; k. of Hungary,
Francis Stephen, d. of Lorraine, 398.
Francis I., emp, of II. R. E.
Franco-German war, 513, 532. Franconia, duchy of, 181, 194, 313. Franconian or Salian emperors, 198. Frankfort, imperial chamber at, 300 grand duchy of, 438, 478; uprising, 490: pre- liminary parliament, 492; parliament re- opened, 498; incorporated with Prussia, 510; peace of, 520.
Frankland, organization of, 432.
Franklin, Benjamin, 420; minister to France, 430; death, 547. Frank-pledge, 232.
Franks, Ripuarian and Salian, 170, 171; Chlodwig, ruler of, 173; under the Mero- wingians, 181; under the Carolingians, 183 Charles the Great, 184; treaty of Verdun, 187; later Carolingians, 201; Northmen in France, 209; extinction of Carolingians, 209. See France. Fratres arvales, 85. Fredegunde, 181.
Frederic, burgr. of Nuremberg, 251. Frederic I., F. of Denmark and Norway, 352; IV., 394, 409; V., 409; VII., 505. Frederic I., Barbarossa, emp. of H. R. E., crusade, 215; reign, 219; expeditions to Italy, 219, 221, 222, 235; II., 223, 224; cession to the Danes, 235; charter to Schwyz, 245; III. (of Austria), 247; III. (IV.), reign of, 253.
Frederic of Hohenstaufen, 200. Frederic of Hohenzollern, 244.
Frederic the Warlike, d. of Austria, 224. Frederic the Warlike, marg. of Meissen, 251.
Frederic the Warlike, d. of Saxony, 252. Frederic V., elector palatine, elected to throne of Bohemia, 309.
Frederic I., k. of Prussia, 372; II., the Great, reign, 400; first Silesian war, 400; second, 402; seven years' war, 403; war of Bavarian succession, 406; league of princes, death, 408.
Frederic VIII., d. of Schleswig-Holstein, 505.
Frederic, d. of Swabia, 218, 219.
Frederic of Hesse-Cassel, k. of Sweden, 396,
Frederic Charles, pr. of Prussia, 505, 506, 508, 509, 514, 518.
Frederic William, el. of Brandenburg (the great elector), accession, 314; peace of Vossem, 367; Fehrbellin, 368; Polish affairs, 373; Silesian duchies, 401.
Frederic William I., k. of Prussia, 397; death, 398; II., 451; III., 459; con- quered by Napoleon, 469; appeal to the people, 475, 476; war of liberation, 477: in London, 482; IV., 491; declines the German crown, 497; death, 503. Frederic William, crown pr. of Prussia, war with Austria, 508; with France, 514.
Fredericia, siege of, 496.
Fredericksburg, battle of, 557. Free soil party, 555.
Freedmen's bureau, 559.
Freiburg, battle of, 406; treaty of (la paix perpetuelle), 319.
French revolution, 448. See, also, France, and Table of Contents, p. vi. French settlements in America, 363. Frey Yngve, k. of Sweden, 208. Freycinet, ministry of, 534, 535. Fribourg. See Freiburg. Fridigern, k. of West Goths, 171. Friedewald, treaty of, 305. Friedland, battle of, 469. Friedrichsburg, peace of, 396. Friedrichshall, siege, 396. Friedrichsham, peace of, 473. Friedrichstadt, storm of, 497. Frobisher, Martin, voyages, 289. Frode the Peaceful, k. of Denmark, 207. Fronde, old and new, 366.
Frontenac, gov. of Canada, 362, 364. Frontières naturelles, 513. Fuca, Juan de la, 290.
Fugitive slave act of 1793, 548; revived in 1850, 555.
Fujiwara, family of, 212, 213, 243. Fulco of Anjou, k. of Jerusalem, 214. Fulton, Robert, 486, 550. Fulvius, M., 126.
Fulvius Flaccus, Q., 118. Furrukabad, 541.
Fürstenwalde, treaty of, 249. Fushimi, battle of, 563. Füssen, separate peace of, 402. Fust, Johann, 253.
Gallienus, 156, 157.
Gallus, Roman emp.,
Gama, Vasco da, 279, 353.
Gambetta, in opposition, 512; member of national defense, 517, 518, 519; speaker, 534; ministry, 534; death, 535.
Garay, gov. of Jamaica, 285.
Gardiner, lord chan., 336.
Garfield, James A., pres. U. S., 560.
Garibaldi, invades Lombardy, Sicily, 502;
death, sketch of life, 526.
Garigliano, battle, 318.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 553.
Gasca, Pedro de, pres. of Peru, 288.
Gascony (Gascoyne), 112; gained and lost with Eleanor, 226, 231: ceded to Eng- laud, 258; lost by England, 260. Gaspe, destroyed, 425. Gaspereaux, 421.
Gast, Pierre du, 290. Gastein, treaty of, 506.
Gates, general, succeeds Schuyler; Bur- goyne surrenders to, 429; defeated by Cornwallis, 430.
Gaugamela, battle of, 29, 74.
Gauls, geography, religion, 34; civiliza- tion, chronology, emigrations, 35; con- quest of Gaul by Caesar, ending 51 B. C., 36, 138; in Asia Minor, 78; invade La- tium, 100; wars with Rome, 103; Cisal- pine Gaul subjugated, 118; Cispadane and Transpadane Gauls Latinized, 118. Gaurus, battle of, 104. Gauta, 237.
Gaveston, Piers, 267. Geert, c. of Holstein, 236. Gelimer, 174.
Gellius Egnatius, 106.
Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse, 20.
Genealogies.
Angoulême, 318. Anjou, 261.
Augustus, family of, 148. Bonaparte family, 466.
Bourbon, Louis IX., to Henry III., 323 Henry IV. to "Henry V.," 528. Brittany, descent of, 320.
Burgundy, 261,329. Cleves-Jülich, 307. County Palatine, 369. Denmark, 239.
England, sovereigns from Ecgbehrt to Henry III., 228; succession in 1553- 1603, 337; descendants of Geo. III., 538.
General fundamentals, 297. General warrants, 440.
Geneva annexed to France, 460; restored to Switzerland, 483; treaty of, 319. Gengis Khan. See Jenghiz Khan. Genji. See Minamoto.
Genoa, war with Venice, 262; government, 263, 326; republic of, 415; transformed into Ligurian republic, 459; given to Sardinia, 483.
Genseric conquered Carthage, 172. Geoffrey of Anjou, 230; of Monmouth, 235.
George I. k. of England, 436; death of, 437; II, 403, 437; III., 439; insanity, 537; death, 538; IV., 538, 539. George, k. of Greece, 505.
George Podiebrad, k. of Bohemia, 253. George William, el. of Brandenburg, 311. Georgia, in America, settlement of, 418, 420; Spanish attack upon, 419; pro- vincial gov. restored, 430; Sherman's march through, 558.
Georgia, in Europe. See Iberia. Gepida, 175.
Gerbert, archb. of Rheims, 202.
Gergovia, siege of, 139.
Germania magna, 163, 167.
Germanicus, expeditions, 149, 167. Germantown, battle of, 429.
Germany, geography, 162; high and low Germans, 163; ancient religion, 164; civ. ilization, 166; early history, 167; futile attempt of Rome to subdue, 148; habita- tions of the tribes in 4th cent., A. D. 170; migrations and settlements, 170-175; Frankish empire under Merowingians, 181; under Carolingians, 183; Charles the Great, 184; renewal of the Roman em- pire, 185; treaty of Verdun, separation of French and German nationalities, 187; Carolingians in Germany, 193; Saxon house, 194; Holy Roman empire, 196; Frankish, or Swabian emperors, 198; in- vestiture strife, 199; concordat of Worms, 201; house of Hohenstaufen, 219; Bar.
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