Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples

Chapters and dates

VOLUME ONE - THE BIRTH OF BRITAIN

Book 1: The Island Race
    ch 01 Britannia - 55 BC
    ch 02 Subjugation - 41 AD, 78 AD
    ch 03 The Roman Province - AD 122, 350
    ch 04 The Lost Island - AD 400, 545
    ch 05 England - AD 633, 664, 733, 796
    ch 06 The Vikings - AD 732, 793, 872
    ch 07 Alfred the Great - 871, 899
    ch 08 The Saxon Dusk - 926, 954, 1009, 1035, 1051
Book 2: The Making of the Nation
    ch 09 The Norman Invasion - 1047, 1064, 1066
    ch 10 William the Conqueror - 1066, 1070, 1075, 1087, 1070
    ch 11 Growth Amid Turmoil - 1095, 1099, 1109, 1125, 1135, 1147, 1153
    ch 12 Henry Plantagenet - 1154, 1162, 1170, 1189
    ch 13 The English Common Law - 1154, 1189, 1250?
    ch 14 Coeur de Lion - 1190, 1192, 1199
    ch 15 Magna Carta - 1202, 1204, 1209, 1213, 1215
    ch 16 On the Anvil - 1216, 1217, 1236, 1252
    ch 17 The Mother of Parliaments - 1259, 1264, 1267, 1272
    ch 18 King Edward I - 1292, 1279, 1294, 1296, 1301, 1305
    ch 19 Bannockburn - 1314, 1321, 1324
    ch 20 Scotland and Ireland - 1296, 1323, 1452, 1333
    ch 21 The Long-Bow - 1327, 1330, 1328, 1346
    ch 22 The Black Death - 1355, 1360, 1343, 1376
Book 3: The End of the Feudal Age
    ch 23 King Richard II and the Social Revolt - 1377, 1381, 1386, 1389, 1397, 1399
    ch 24 The Usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke - 1401, 1411, 1413
    ch 25 The Empire of Henry V - 1414, 1415
    ch 26 Joan of Arc - 1422, 1423, 1429, 1431
    ch 27 York and Lancaster - 1431, 1435, 1441, 1450, 1453, 1454
    ch 28 The Wars of the Roses - 1455, 1460, 1461, 1463, 1468
    ch 29 The Adventures of Edward IV - 1470, 1471, 1478
    ch 30 Richard III - 1484, 1485

VOLUME TWO - THE NEW WORLD

Book 4: Renaissance and Reformation
    ch 01 The Round World - 1450, 1517, 1453, 1498, 1497
    ch 02 The Tudor Dynasty - 1485, 1489
    ch 03 King Henry VIII - 1477, 1509, 1513
    ch 04 Cardinal Wolsey - 1515, 1520, 1527, 1529
    ch 05 The Break with Rome - 1530, 1533, 1536
    ch 06 The End of the Monasteries - 1536, 1538, 1543, 1545
    ch 07 The Protestant Struggle - 1549, 1553, 1554, 1558
    ch 08 Good Queen Bess - 1558, 1559, 1560, 1570, 1572, 1585, 1587
    ch 09 The Spanish Armada - 1573, 1578, 1585, 1588
    ch 10 Gloriana - 1600, 1596, 1598, 1599, 1603
Book 5: The Civil War
    ch 11 The United Crowns - 1604, 1607, 1611, 1618, 1621
    ch 12 The Mayflower - 1606, 1617, 1629, 1630, 1640, 1632
    ch 13 Charles I and Buckingham - 1628, 1629
    ch 14 The Personal Rule - 1628, 1635, 1637, 1640
    ch 15 The Revolt of Parliament - 1640, 1641, 1642
    ch 16 The Great Rebellion - 1642, 1643, 1644
    ch 17 Marston Moor and Naseby - 1644, 1645
    ch 18 The Axe Falls - 1645, 1646, 1647, 1648
Book 6: The Restoration
    ch 19 The English Republic - 1649
    ch 20 The Lord Protector - 1653, 1654, 1655, 1657, 1658
    ch 21 The Restoration - 1657, 1659, 1660
    ch 22 The Merry Monarch - 1660, 1663, 1667, 1672
    ch 23 The Popish Plot - 1673, 1675, 1679
    ch 24 Whig and Tory - 1680, 1682, 1685
    ch 25 The Catholic King - 1685, 1686, 1687
    ch 26 The Revolution of - 1688 1687, 1688

VOLUME THREE - THE AGE OF REVOLUTION

Book 7: England's Advance to World Power
    ch 01 William of Orange - 1672, 1688, 1690
    ch 02 Continental War - 1692, 1694, 1697, 1698, 1700
    ch 03 The Spanish Succession - 1698, 1699, 1701, 1702
    ch 04 Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies - 1702, 1703, 1705, 1706
    ch 05 Oudenarde and Malplaquet - 1702, 1707, 1706, 1708, 1709
    ch 06 The Treaty of Utrecht - 1710, 1711, 1712, 1714
Book 8: The First British Empire
    ch 07 The House of Hanover - 1714, 1715, 1721
    ch 08 Sir Robert Walpole - 1721, 1717, 1737, 1739, 1741
    ch 09 The Austrian Succession and the "Forty-Five" - 1740, 1742, 1745, 1751
    ch 10 The American Colonies - 1682, 1688, 1711, 1732
    ch 11 The First World War - 1756, 1757, 1758, 1760, 1763
    ch 12 The Quarrel with America - 1770, 1765, 1767, 1773, 1774, 1775
    ch 13 The War of Independence - 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778
    ch 14 The United States - 1777, 1779, 1780, 1782
    ch 15 The Indian Empire - 1740, 1748, 1756, 1760, 1772, 1781, 1785, 1814
Book 9: Napoleon
    ch 16 The Younger Pitt - 1782, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1793
    ch 17 The American Constitution - 1777, 1786, 1787, 1789
    ch 18 The French Revolution - 1789, 1788, 1781, 1788, 1789, 1793
    ch 19 France Confronted - 1789, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1799, 1802
    ch 20 Trafalgar - 1804, 1805
    ch 21 The Emperor of the French - 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809
    ch 22 The Peninsular War and the Fall of Napoleon - 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812
    ch 23 Washington, Adams, and Jefferson - 1793, 1797, 1798, 1801, 1806, 1807
    ch 24 The War of 1812 - 1809, 1812, 1811, 1814, 1817
    ch 25 Elba and Waterloo - 1815, 1814, 1815

VOLUME FOUR - THE GREAT DEMOCRACIES

Book 10: Recovery and Reform
    ch 01 The Victory Peace - 1815, 1819, 1820
    ch 02 Canning and the Duke - 1820, 1814, 1823, 1822, 1827, 1828
    ch 03 Reform and Free Trade - 1831, 1832, 1833, 1839, 1846, 1850
    ch 04 The Crimean War - 1848, 1849, 1852, 1853, 1855, 1864
    ch 05 Palmerston - 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1868
    ch 06 The Migration of the Peoples: Canada and South Africa - 1871, 1840, 1846, 1867, 1778, 1814, 1834, 1857
    ch 07 The Migration of the Peoples: Australia and New Zealand - 1568, 1642, 1797, 1850, 1829, 1861, 1838, 1852, 1890
Book 11: The Great Republic
    ch 08 American Epic - 1815, 1828, 1819, 1832, 1845, 1859
    ch 09 Slavery and Secession - 1850, 1852, 1861, 1854, 1859
    ch 10 The Union in Danger - 1850, 1861
    ch 11 The Campaign Against Richmond 1861
    ch 12 Lee and McClellan - 1862
    ch 13 Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - 1863, 1862
    ch 14 The Victory of the Union - 1864, 1865
Book 12: The Victorian Age
    ch 15 The Rise of Germany - 1871, 1890, 1864, 1866, 1871
    ch 16 Gladstone and Disraeli - 1868, 1885, 1871, 1876
    ch 17 American "Reconstruction" - 1863, 1865, 1868, 1877, 1900
    ch 18 America as a World Power - 1890, 1873, 1896, 1895, 1900
    ch 19 Home Rule for Ireland - 1880, 1879, 1883, 1867, 1877, 1882, 1885
    ch 20 Lord Salisbury's Governments - 1886, 1890, 1893, 1889, 1897, 1895
    ch 21 The South African War - 1895, 1899, 1901, 1902

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