. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. showwhat we had accomplished in four hundred years. PresidentCleveland, just beginning his second term of office and stand-ing then at the very h
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. showwhat we had accomplished in four hundred years. PresidentCleveland, just beginning his second term of office and stand-ing then at the very height of his personal ])opularity through-out the country, opened the fair with a notable speech tracingthe progress of the recent years. A previous exhibition, held at Philadelphia in 1876, hadcelebrated the completion of the first century of our indepen-dence. This first fair had not. however, drawn nuieh atten-tion beyond its immediate vicinity. The huge Chicago ex-hibition, on the contrary, attracted the interest of the entireworld, and displayed the Avonders not only of our own landbut of every other. It added much to our international trade,and it made millions of our own people become better ac-quainted with one another and with the nation by their travelto and from Chicago. Since then the educational value ofsuch worlds fairs has led to their being repeated on everypossible occasion and in almost every land. w- ^1 -jn*.;-. s:^/:^-^^.. lX-70 I The United States—Manila Bay 1675 cans displayed such accurate gunnery as the world had never known, while theiropponents fire could not have been less harmful had it been deliberately aimedto avoid the Americans. Dewey, in his flagship the Olympia, led his fleet of six vessels in a slowcircle past the Spanish batteries and ships, keeping up a continuous fire, untilafter two hours he signalled to his consorts to haul off for breakfast and ammu-nition. As one captain after another came on board the Olympia, he wouldreport in a sor
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