Read by Christian Rodska

During the period of this volume, from 1688 to 1815, three revolutions
profoundly influenced mankind and all occurred within the space of
a 100 years and all led to war between the British and the French:
the English Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1775 and
the French Revolution of 1789. Beneath these political upheavals other
revolutions in science and manufacture were laying the foundations of
the Industrial Age in which we live today. All this time the expansion
of British overseas possessions grew: the New World, India and
discoveries by Cook in the Southern Hemisphere. This was the time
of Marlborough, Wolfe, Clive, Nelson and Wellington, plus the great
statesmen Walpole, Chatham and Pitt. ENGLAND'S ADVANCE TO WORLD POWER
William of Orange; Continental War; Spanish Succession; Marlborough:
Blenheim and Ramillies; Oudenarde and Malplaquet;Treaty of Utrecht
THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE House of Hanover; Robert Walpole; Austrian
Succession and 'Forty-Five'; American Colonies;1st World War; War of
Independence; United States; Indian Empire NAPOLEON Younger Pitt;
American Constitution; French Revolution; Trafalgar; Emperor of
the French; Peninsular War and Fall of Napoleon; Washington, Adams
and Jefferson; War of 1812; Elba and Waterloo

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