Excerpt from Epochs and Episodes of History The epochs OF history include many stirring scenes and peace ful records. The successes of arms, the records of political events, the triumphs 'of industry in the lives of warriors and statesmen of modern times, will be found faithfully recorded and picturesquely treated. Each event has been treated completely in connection with its causes and its consequences, the long succession of word-pictures being studied from separate standpoints, until the best combination of the collected series has been attained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.