INDEX TO VOLUMES I TO IX INCLUSIVE.

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AAHMES, Reign of, 58. ABBASSIDE DYNASTY, Ascendency of, 1289-1293; table of, 1291.

"ABC MEDIATION," Account of, 3129. ABDALLAH, General of Islam, 1143; caliph of the West, 1144-1148. ABDALMALEC, Caliph of Islam, 1146; reign of, 1146-1150.

ABDALRAHMAN, General of Islam, 1122-1123. ABDALRAHMAN, Governor of Spain, 1154; invades France, 1155; overthrown at Poitiers, 1155. ABD-EL-KADER, Overthrow and capture of, 2643-2644.

ABDERRAHMAN, Caliph of Cordova, 1293-1294. ABDUL-AZIZ, SULTAN, Reign of, 2898. ABDUL-HAMID II., Sultan of Turkey, 2899-2902, 3282-3284.

ABDUL-MEDJID, SULTAN, Reign of, 2887. ABELARD AND HELOISE, Story of, 1267. ABERDEEN, Ministry of, 2492. ABIHI, SON OF NOBODY, Career of, 1137-1138. ABOUKIR, Battle of, 2100. ABRAHAM, Ancestor of Israel, 64; leaves Ur, 115. ABU BEKER, First caliph of Islam, 1104; gathers the Koran, 1105; foreign conquests of, 1105-1109. ABU KAHINA, Chieftain of the Moors, 1141; defeats Acbah, 1141; takes Caerwan, 1145-1146. ABU WAKKAS, General of Islam, 1118-1121. ABUL ABBAS, Establishes Abbasside Dynasty, 1289. ABYSSINIA, War of with England, 2564-2567; defeats Italians, 3237-3238.

ACADIA, Conquest of by the English, 1975-1977. ACARNANIA, Description of, 453-454. ACBAH, General of Islam, 1139; conquests of in northern Africa, 1141. ACHEAN LEAGUE, Formation of, 675; policy of, 824; influence of, 827; dissolution of, 828-830. ACHANS, Account of, 458-459. ACHMENES, Founder of Persia, 343. ACHAIA, Description of, 454. ACHAIA, Province of Rome, 830. ACRE, Besieged by the Christians, 1373; last hold of the Crusaders, 1414; taken by the Moslems, 1415; besieged by Napoleon, 2099. ACROPOLIS, Notice of, 477, 565. ACT OF UNION, With Ireland, Notice of, 2460. ACTIUM, Battle of, 904. ADAMITES, Sect of Hussites, 1513. ADAMS, JOHN, Mentioned, 1999; in Colonial Congress, 2006; on committee to draft Declaration, 2010; American ambassador at Paris, 2029; elected vice-president, 2032; reelected, 2182; chosen President, 2183; administration of, 2183-2184; death of, 2209.

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, American ambassador at Ghent, 2195; elected President, 2208; sketch of, 2208; administration of, 2208-2211.

ADAMS, SAMUEL, Defender of colonial liberty, 2001; in Colonial Congress, 2006. ADAR, Worship of, 135-136. ADELAIDE, Princess of Orleans, Death of, 2660. ADHEMAR, Bishop of Puy, Leader of First Crusade, 1317, 1334.

ADIABENE, Province of, 146. ADOLPHUS, King of the Visigoths, 1064-1069. ADRIANOPLE, Battle of, 976; taken by Russians, 2894. ADRIATIC, Marriage of by the Doge, 1448. ADRONICUS, Emperor of the East, 1024-1025. ADULLAMITES, Name of British political faction, 2557. AEDILESHIP, Institution of, 768. AEGINA, Troubles of with Athens, 544-545. AEGOSPOTAMI, Battle of, 582. AEMILIAN WAY, Description of, 793. AEMILIUS PAULLUS, Consul of Rome, 805. AENEAS, Tradition of, 698.

AEOLIAN CONFEDERATION, Founding of, 513-514. AEOLIANS, Account of, 458. AEOLIC GREEK, Character of, 465. AEROPLANE, Invented by Wright brothers, 3370-3371; use of in the Great War, 3460, 3582, 3597, 3739, 3798, 3853, 3939; crosses the Atlantic, 3948. AESCHINES, Leader of Macedonian party, 607. AESCHYLUS, Works of, 471. AETOLIA, Description of, 453. AETOLIAN LEAGUE, History of, 824-827. AFDHAL, Emir of the Turks, 1339-1340. AFGHANISTAN, Troubles of England with, 2453-2457, 2587-2592.

AFGHAN QUESTION, Nature of, 2453-2454. AFRICA, Character of, 29; recent wars in, 2584-2590; attempts to colonize, 2809-2810; history during 1889-1915, 3326-3338. AFRICANUS. (See Scipio.) AGER PUBLICUS. (See Land Question.) AGESILAUS, King of Sparta, 589; career of, 590-602. AGINCOURT, Battle of, 1479, 1540. AGIS, King of Sparta, 589. AGNADELLO, Battle of, 1561. AGRARIAN LAW, Passage of, 769. AGRICOLA, CNEIUS JULIUS, Conqueror of Britain, 943; death of, 944.

AGRICULTURE, A primitive pursuit, 124. AGRICULTURE, Department of, established, 2400. AGRIGENTIUM, Taken by the Carthaginians, 814. AGRIPPINA, Empress of Rome, 927. AGRIPPINA, The elder, mentioned, 921. AHRIMAN, The Satan of the Medes,. 220. AHURA-MAZDAO, Worship of, 218-219. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, Capital of Charlemagne, 1175; treaty of, 1928, 1946; congress of, 2623, 2860. AJACCIO, Birthplace of Napoleon, 1987. AKBAR KHAN, Chieftain of Cabul, 2455-2456. ALABAMA, Admission of, 2204-2205. ALABAMA, Confederate cruiser, Account of, 2316; claims arising from ravages of, 2344; settled by Geneva Tribunal, 2344,2548-2551.