THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. BY EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. THE SECOND AMERICAN EDITION. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. VIII. 7:11-YORK PHILADELPHIA: PRISTED BY ABRAHAM SMALL......AND PUBLISHED BY UM, AND M. CARLY. 1816. CONTENTS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME, Elevation of Timour' or Tamerlane to the Throne of Samarcand.- His Conquests in Per. sia, Georgia, Tartary, Russia, India, Syria, and Anatolia.—His Turkish War - De. feat and Captivity of Bajazet.- Death of Timorr.-Civil War of the Sons of Bajazet. HISTORIES of TIMOUR, or Ta. 1403 Death of Bajazet merlane 1 Term of the Conquest of Timour ib. 1361-1370. His first Adventures 31404, 1405. His Triumph at Samar. 1370 He ascends the throne of Zagatai 5 10.1405 His Death on the Road to China 27 ib. Character and Merits of Timour 28 61403-1421. Civil Wars of the Sons of 1390—1396. Of Kipzak, Russia, &c. 7. Bajazet 31 1400 His War against sultan Bajazet 16 1421-1451. Reign of Amurath II. 34 ib. 1421 Re-union of the Ottoman Empire ib. 17|1402-1425. State of the Greek Empire 35 Defeat and Captivity of Bajazet 19 1422 Siege of Constantinople by Amu- The Story of his Iron Cage dis. proved by the Persian historian 11425-1448. The Emperor John Palæo. Hereditary Succession and Merit ib. Education and Discipline of the CHAPTER LXVI. Application of the Eastern Emperors to the Popes. Visits to the West, of John the First, Manuel, and John the Second, Palæologus.-Union of the Greek and Latin Churches, |
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