A Compendium of the History of All Nations: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Origin, Progress, Decline and Fall of the Most Considerable Empires, Kingdoms, and States of the World, from the Earliest Times to the Present Period. Interspersed with a Short Account of the Prevailing Religions. Ornamented with a Frontispiece... and Three Other Plates |
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... battle , from whence they seldom returned till one party was completely van- quished , and his possessions were added to those of the conqueror , who , elated with victory , or thirsting for fu- ture glory , led forth his combatants to ...
... battle , from whence they seldom returned till one party was completely van- quished , and his possessions were added to those of the conqueror , who , elated with victory , or thirsting for fu- ture glory , led forth his combatants to ...
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... battles of Granicus , Cilicia , and Arbela , and conquered all Asia : by which means the empire of the Persians was transferred to the Grecians , after it had stood for upwards of two hundred years . This event happened 330 years before ...
... battles of Granicus , Cilicia , and Arbela , and conquered all Asia : by which means the empire of the Persians was transferred to the Grecians , after it had stood for upwards of two hundred years . This event happened 330 years before ...
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... battle , the Thebans renounced monarchy , and established a com- monwealth , which subsisted till it was overwhelmed by the Persian empire . 5. THE ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION , and the SIEGE OF TROY . - Two great events , which happened ...
... battle , the Thebans renounced monarchy , and established a com- monwealth , which subsisted till it was overwhelmed by the Persian empire . 5. THE ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION , and the SIEGE OF TROY . - Two great events , which happened ...
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... battle . In the mean time Scipio the Roman general , recovered the whole province of Spain . He now transferred the war into Africa . Hannibal was immediately recalled from Italy , where he had been successful sixteen years , and had ...
... battle . In the mean time Scipio the Roman general , recovered the whole province of Spain . He now transferred the war into Africa . Hannibal was immediately recalled from Italy , where he had been successful sixteen years , and had ...
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... battle ensued , which decided the fate of Pompey and that of the empire forty - eight years before Christ . Cæsar was triumphant . No vestige of a republic now remained ; the senate was dispossessed of all its power , and Rome ...
... battle ensued , which decided the fate of Pompey and that of the empire forty - eight years before Christ . Cæsar was triumphant . No vestige of a republic now remained ; the senate was dispossessed of all its power , and Rome ...
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