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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—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