James Johonnot

James Johonnot (1823 – 1888) was a historian and scientist, with links to Japan.

His Ten Great Events in History starts as follows:

The great events in history are those where, upon special occasions, a man or a people have made a stand against tyranny, and have preserved or advanced freedom for the people. Sometimes tyranny has taken the form of the oppression of the many by the few in the same nation, and sometimes it has been the oppression of a weak nation by a stronger one....

Johonnot's "Ten Great Events" are the following:

• i.-- Defense of freedom by Greek valor
• ii.-- Crusades and the Crusaders
• iii.-- Defense of freedom in Alpine passes
• iv.-- Bruce and Bannockburn
• v.-- Christopher Columbus and the New World
• vi.-- Defense of freedom on Dutch dikes
• vii.-- The invincible armada
• viii.-- Freedom's voyage to America
• ix.-- Plassey; and how an empire was won
• x.-- Lexington and Bunker hill

Johonnot's work on T.H. Huxley has been referred to by Cyril Bibby.

List of publications

• Ten Great Events in History
• Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home
• A geographical reader
• A natural history reader for school and home
• Friends in feathers and fur, and other neighbors : for young folks
• Neighbors with claws and hoofs, and their kin. For boys and girls
• Neighbors with wings and fins, and some others : for young people
• School
• Some curious flyers, creepers and swimmers
• Stories of our country

External links

• Works by James Johonnot at Project Gutenberg. ASCII and HTML texts.
• Works by James Johonnot at Internet Archive. Color scanned illustrated books.
• Works by James Johonnot at Google Book Search. Searchable color scanned illustrated books.