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Illustrations
Peter the Great, Russia's dynamic tsar 2
John Churchill, later duke of Marlborough 20
Port Royal and Kingston Harbor, Jamaica 40
Defeat of General Braddock in the French and Indian War 60
François-Marie Arouet, best known as Voltaire 78
Agricultural labor in the eighteenth century 98
Revolt in Great Britain's North American colonies culmi-
nated in the creation of the United States of America
114
Richard Arkwright's spinning machine 134
Employing inhumane methods, the Atlantic slave trade
peaked during the eighteenth century
154
Execution of the French king Louis XVI 170

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Publication Information: Book Title: Events That Changed the World in the Eighteenth Century. Contributors: Frank W. Thackeray - editor, John E. Findling - editor. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1998. Page Number: vii.
    
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