NIVERSAL

ISTORY

CONTAINING

A RECORD OF THE HUMAN RACE FROM THE

EARLIEST HISTORICAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME;

EMBRACING A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE PROGRESS OF MANKIND IN

NATIONAL AND SOCIAL LIFE, CIVIL GOVERNMENT,

RELIGION, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART

Author of "Illustrated Universal History," "Complete Historical Compendium," Unrivaled History of the World,"

"History of the British-Boer War," and Other Works; Also Author of a Series of Forty

Historical Maps; Member of the American Historical Association

REVIEWED AND ENDORSED BY FIFTEEN PROFESSORS

OF HISTORY IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, AND OTHER
PROMINENT EDUCATORS, AMONG WHOM ARE THE FOLLOWING:
GEORGE EMORY FELLOWS, Ph.D., Professor of European History, University of Indiana, Bloomington,
Ind.; A. P. WINSTON, Late Professor of History, University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill.; WM. R.
PERKINS, Professor of History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; RICHARD HEATH DABNEY, A.M.,
Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; KEMP PLUMMER BATTLE,
A.M., LL.D., Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.; JOHN HANSON
THOMAS MCPHERSON, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.; ELISHA
BENJAMIN ANDREWS, LL.D., D.D., Late President of Brown University, Providence, R. I.; REV.
GEO. M. GRANT, D.D., President of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; the Late MOSES
COIT TYLER, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of American History, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; WM.
TORREY HARRIS, LL.D., United States Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C.

Illustrated with Maps, Portraits and Views

VOLUME XV.-SUPPLEMENT AND INDEX

NEW YORK AND CHICAGO

UNION BOOK COMPANY

1906