From the publisher:
Book IV of the Story of the Worlds series. Focuses on the age of empire and world colonization. The histories of European colonies in America, Australia, South Africa, and India are related. Also covered are the Revolution in America, the French Revolution, and campaigns of Napoleon.
Table of Contents:
1. The Story of the Great Mogul
2. Robert Clive
3. The Black Hole of Calcutta
4. The Struggle for North America
5. George Washington, Soldier and Patriot
6. How Pitt Saved England
7. The Fall of Quebec
8. The Great Lord Hawke
9. The Boston Tea-Ships
10. The Declaration of Independence
11. Captain Cook's Story
12. James Bruce and the Nile
13. The Trial of Warren Hastings
14. Marie Antoinette
15. The Fall of the Bastile
16. The Flight to Varennes
17. A Reign of Terror
18. Napoleon Bonaparte
19. Horatio Nelson
20. The Adventures of Mungo Park
21. The Adventures of Baron Humboldt
22. The Beginning of the Struggle
23. The Battle of the Nile
24. Copenhagen
25. Napoleon, Emperor of the French
26. The Battle of Trafalgar
27. The Death of Nelson
28. A Second Charlemagne
29. The Rise of Wellington
30. At the Cape of Good Hope
31. The First Australian Colony
32. Story of the Slave-Trade
33. The Defense of Saragoza
34. Sir John Moore at Coruna
35. The Victory of Talavera
36. The Peasant Hero of Tyrol
37. The Empire at Its Height
38. The Shannon and the Chesapeake
39. Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
40. Wellington's Victories in Spain
41. Spain for the Spaniards
42. The Fall of the Empire
43. Story of the Steam-Engine
44. The Congress of Vienna
45. The Eve of Waterloo
46. Waterloo
47. The Exile of St. Helena
