The Story of the Greatest Nations, from the Dawn of History, to the Twentieth Century, a Comprehensive History, Founded Upon the Leading, Authorities, ... Pronouncing Vocabulary of Each Nation, Vol. 5

Frontispiece .T itle-page Bald, FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS Saint George Fighting the Dragon, .... Herodotus Reading History, ..... France and Her Historic Provinces, .... The Martyrdom of St. Denis, ..... The Franks Offering Sacrifice before Invading Gaul, Julian Declared Emperor by his Soldiers at Paris, The Baptism of Clovis, ...... The Death of Chramn, ....... Saint Hubert, ......... Pepin le Bref after the Murder of Duke Waifre, Roland at Roncesvalles, ...... Ludwig s Embassy Interrupts the Wedding of Charles th Rolf the Ganger Attacks Paris, ..... Henry I. of Germany visiting Charles the Simple, Hugh Capet and the Count of Perigord, .T he Excommunication of Robert the Pious, The Normans in London at the Coronation of William the Conqueror Peter the Hermit Preaching the First Crusade, Bohemond Leading the Crusaders at Dorylaeum, Godfrey of Bouillon s First Entrance into Jerusalem, Grodfrey s Second Entrance into Jerusalem, The Triumph of the Cross, ...... Louis VII. Receiving the Cross from Saint Bernard, The Heroic Resistance and Escape of Louis VII., Finding the Body of Frederick Barbarossa, Philip Augustus Thanking the Burghers after the Battle o Simon De Montfort before Toulouse, .... Louis IX. and the Prisoners Freed at His Coronation, The Battle of Taillebourg, ...... Saint Louis in the Hands of the Saracens, ,TO FACE PAGE f Bouvines 770 772 774 776 778 780 7.
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