OR

THE GREAT EVENTS

OF

HEGREATEST CENTURY,

INCLUDING ALSO

LIFE DELINEATIONS OF OUR MOST NOTED MEN.

"They love their land because it is their own,
And scorn to give aught other reason why."-HALLECB.

BY HON. R. M. DEVENS,

OF MASSACHUSETTS.

ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS

COLUMBIAN EDITION,

REVISED AND ENLARGED.

PUBLISHED BY

THE C. A. NICHOLS CO.

MDCCCXCIII.