Chapter I: Front Matter

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The above symbolic picture, after the master painting
of Paul Sinibaldi, explains the secret of the
wonderful progress of the past 100 years. The genius
of Industry stands in the centre. To her right sits
Chemistry; to the left the geniuses of Electricity
with the battery, the telephone, the electric light;
there also are the geniuses of Navigation with the
propeller, and of Literature and Art, all bringing
their products to Industry who passes them through the
hands of Labor in the foreground to be fashioned for
the use of mankind.]

The Achievements of One Hundred Years

FAMOUS MEN AND GREAT EVENTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Embracing Descriptions of the Decisive Battles of the Century and the Great Soldiers Who Fought Them; the Rise and Fall of Nations; the Changes in the Map of the World, and the Causes Which Contributed to Political and Social Revolutions; Discoverers and Discoveries; Explorers of the Tropics and Arctics; Inventors and Their Inventions; the Growth of Literature, Science and Art; the Progress of Religion, Morals and Benevolence in All Civilized Nations.

by

CHARLES MORRIS, LL. D.

Author of "The Aryan Race," "Civilization, Its History, Etc.," "The Greater Republic," Etc.

Embellished With Nearly 100 Full-Page Half-Tone Engravings, Illustrating the Greatest Events of the Century, and 100 Portraits of the Most Famous Men in the World.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1899, by W. E. Scull, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

All Rights Reserved.

LIST OF CHAPTERS AND SUBJECTS

Introduction PAGE

A Bird's-eye View--Tyranny and Oppression in the Eighteenth
Century--Government and the Rights of Man in 1900--Prisons
and Punishment in 1900--The Factory System and Oppression
of the Workingman--Suffrage and Human Freedom--Criminal
Law and Prison Discipline in 1800--The Era of Wonderful
Inventions--The Fate of the Horse and the Sail--Education,
Discovery and Commerce 23

CHAPTER I

The Threshold of the Century

The Age We Live in and its Great Events--True History and
the Things Which Make It--Two of the World's Greatest
Events--The Feudal System and Its Abuses--The Climax of
Feudalism in France--The States General is Convened--The
Fall of the Bastille--King and Queen Under the
Guillotine--The Reign of Terror--The Wars of the French
Revolution--Napoleon in Italy and Egypt--England as a
Centre of Industry and Commerce--The Condition of the
German States--Dissension in Italy and Decay in Spain--The
Partition of Poland by the Robber Nations--Russia and
Turkey 33

CHAPTER II

Napoleon Bonaparte; The Man of Destiny

A Remarkable and Wonderful Career--The Enemies and Friends
of France--Movements of the Armies in Germany and
Italy--Napoleon Crosses the Alps at St. Bernard Pass--The
Situation in Italy--The Famous Field of Marengo--A
Great Battle Lost and Won--The Result of the Victory of
Marengo--Napoleon Returns to France--Moreau and the Great
Battle of Hohenlinden--The Peace of Luneville--The Peace
of Amiens--The Punishment of the Conspirators and the
Assassination of the Duke d'Enghien--Napoleon Crowned
Emperor of the French--The Great Works Devised By the New
Emperor 44

CHAPTER III

Europe in the Grasp of the Iron Hand

Great Preparations for the Invasion of England--Rapid March
on Austria--The Surrender of General Mack--The Eve Before
Austerlitz--The Dreadful Lake Horror--Treaty of Peace
With Austria--Prussian Armies in the Field--Defeat of the
Prussians at Jena and Auerstadt--Napoleon Divides the
Spoils of Victory--The Frightful Struggle at Eylau--The
Cost of Victory--The Total Defeat of the Russians--The
Emperors at Tilsit and the Fate of Prussia--The Pope a
Captive at Fontainebleau--Andreas Hofer and the War in
Tyrol--Napoleon Marches Upon Austria--The Battle of
Eckmuhl and the Capture of Ratisbon--The Campaign in
Italy--The Great Struggle of Essling and Aspern--Napoleon
Forced to His First Retreat--The Second Crossing of the
Danube--The Victory at Wagram--The Peace of Vienna--The
Divorce of Josephine and Marriage of Maria Louisa 57

CHAPTER IV

The Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire

The Causes of the Rise and Decline of Napoleon's Power--Aims
and Intrigues in Portugal and Spain--Spain's Brilliant
Victory and King Joseph's Flight--The Heroic Defence of
Saragossa--Wellington's Career in Portugal and Spain--The
Invasion of Russia by the Grand Army--Smolensk Captured
and in Flames--The Battle of Borodino--The Grand Army
in the Old Russian Capital--The Burning of the Great
City of Moscow--The Grand Army Begins its Retreat--The
Dreadful Crossing of the Beresina--Europe in Arms Against
Napoleon--The Battle of Dresden, Napoleon's Last Great
Victory--The Fatal Meeting of the Armies at Leipzig--The
Break-up of Napoleon's Empire--The War in France and the
Abdication of the Emperor--Napoleon Returns From Elba--The
Terrible Defeat at Waterloo--Napoleon Meets His Fate 83