[Transcriber's Notes: These modifications are intended to provide continuity of the text for ease of searching and reading.1. To avoid breaks in the narrative, page numbers (shown in curly brackets "{123}") are usually placed between paragraphs. In this case the page number is preceded and followed by an empty line.2. If a paragraph is exceptionally long, the page number is placed at the nearest sentence break on its own line, but without surrounding empty lines.3. Blocks of unrelated text are moved to a nearby break between subjects.5. Use of em dashes and other means of space saving are replaced with spaces and newlines.6. Subjects are arranged thusly: Main titles are at the left margin, in all upper case (as in the original) and are preceded by an empty line. Subtitles (if any) are indented three spaces and immediately follow the main title. Text of the article (if any) follows the list of subtitles (if any) and is preceded with an empty line and indented three spaces. References to other articles in this work are in all upper case (as in the original) and indented six spaces. They usually begin with "See", "Also" or "Also in". Citations of works outside this book are indented six spaces and in italics, as in the original. The bibliography in APPENDIX F on page xxi provides additional details, including URLs of available internet versions. ----------Subject: End---------- indicates the end of a long group of subheadings or other large block.End Transcriber's Notes.]-----------------------------------------------------------
History For Ready Reference, Volume 1 of 6From The BestHistorians, Biographers, And SpecialistsTheir Own Words In A CompleteSystem Of HistoryFor All Uses, Extending To All Countries And Subjects,And Representing For Both Readers And Students The BetterAnd Newer Literature Of History In The English LanguageBy J. N. LarnedWith Numerous Historical Maps From Original StudiesAnd Drawings By Alan C. ReileyIn Five VolumesVolume I--A To ElbaSpringfield, Massachusetts.The C. A. Nichols Company., Publishers MDCCCXCVCopyright,1893,By J. N. Larned.The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.United States Of AmericaPrinted by H. O. Houghton & Company.Preface.This work has two aims: to represent and exhibit the betterLiterature of History in the English language, and to give itan organized body--a system--adapted to the greatestconvenience in any use, whether for reference, or for reading,for teacher, student, or casual inquirer.The entire contents of the work, with slight exceptions readilydistinguished, have been carefully culled from some thousands ofbooks,--embracing the whole range (in the English language) ofstandard historical writing, both general and special: thebiography, the institutional and constitutional studies, thesocial investigations, the archeological researches, theecclesiastical and religious discussions, and all other importanttributaries to the great and swelling main stream of historicalknowledge. It has been culled as one might pick choice fruits,careful to choose the perfect and the ripe, where such are found,and careful to keep th
