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This is Volume VI of a complete set of The Great Events by FamousHistorians.

Issued Strictly as a Limited Edition. In Volume I of this Set will befound the Official Certificate, under the Seal of the National Alumni,as to the Limitation of the Edition, the Registered Number, and theName of the Owner.

BINDING - Vol. VI

The binding of this volume is a facsimile of the original onexhibition in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

It was executed by Geoffroy Tory, and presented by him to King Francis
I.

The broken vase so cleverly worked into the tooled design was thedevice of Tory, which, as explained in his book, Champfleury,represents our frail body—a vessel of clay.

Tory was professor of philosophy and literature in several colleges.In 1518 he set up a printing-press, from whence he brought outbeautiful editions of the Greek and Latin authors, translated andannotated by himself. In 1530 he was appointed Printer to King FrancisI.

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[Illustration: Tragic death of Archbishop Thomas A. Becket at thealter of the Cathedral of Canterbury Painting by A. Dawant.]

THE GREAT EVENTS

BY

FAMOUS HISTORIANS

A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY,EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE ASCOMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS

NON-SECTARIANNON-PARTISANNON-SECTIONAL

ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THEMOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEFINTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATEDNARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES,BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING.

SUPERVISING EDITORROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.

LITERARY EDITORS
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.

DIRECTING EDITORWALTER F. AUSTIN, LL.M.

With a staff of specialistsVOLUME VI

The National Alumni

CONTENTS

VOLUME VI PAGE

An Outline Narrative of the Great Events,
  CHARLES F. HORNE xiii

Archiepiscopate of Thomas BecketHis Defence of Ecclesiastical JurisdictionHis Assassination (A.D. 1162-1170), JOHN LINGARD 1

The Peace of Constance Secures the Liberties of
  the Lombard Cities (A.D. 1183),
  ERNEST F. HENDERSON 28

Saladin Takes Jerusalem from the Christians
  (A.D. 1187),
  SIR GEORGE W. COX 41

The Third Crusade (A.D. 1189-1194),
  HENRY VON SYBEL 54

The Teutonic KnightsTheir Organization and History (A.D. 1190-1809), F.C. WOODHOUSE 68

Philip of France Wins the French Domains of the
  English Kings (A.D. 120