Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
NEBUCHADNEZZAR[1] By Clarence Cook (645-561 B.C.)
CYRUS THE GREAT[2] By Clarence Cook (REIGNED 558-529 B.C.)
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (356-323 B.C.)
HANNIBAL By Walter Whyte (247-183 B.C.)
SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR (235-183 B.C.)
CAIUS MARIUS Extracts from "Cæsar, a Sketch," by James Anthony Froude, LL.D. (157-86 B.C.)
JULIUS CÆSAR By E. Spencer Beesly, M.A. (100-44 B.C.)
MARC ANTONY (83-30 B.C.)
HERMANN (16 B.C.-21 A.D.)
TRAJAN By J. S. Reid, Litt.D. (53-117)
DIOCLETIAN (245-313)
ALARIC THE BOLD By Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. (360-410)
ATTILA By Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. (REIGNED 434-453)
CLOVIS THE FIRST By Thomas Wyatt, A.M. (465-511)
BELISARIUS[8] By Charlotte M. Yonge (505-565)
CHARLES MARTEL By Henry G. Hewlett (694-741)
PEPIN THE SHORT By Henry G. Hewlett (714-768)
CHARLEMAGNE By Sir J. Bernard Burke (742-814)
OLAF TRYGGVESON Extracts from "Early Kings of Norway," by Thomas Carlyle (955-1000)
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR By G. W. Prothero (1027-1087)
GODFREY DE BOUILLON By Henry G. Hewlett (1060-1100)
SALADIN[13] By Walter Besant (1137-1192)
EDWARD I. OF ENGLAND By Thomas Davidson (1239-1307)
EDWARD III. OF ENGLAND (1312-1377)
EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE By L. Drake (1330-1376)
BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN (1314-1380)
HENRY V. OF ENGLAND Extracts from "Memoirs of Great Commanders," by G. P. R. James (1388-1422)
JOHN HUNIADES[16] By Professor A. Vambéry (1388-1456)
WARWICK, THE KING-MAKER (1420-1471)
HERNANDO CORTES[17] By H. Rider Haggard (1485-1547)
FRANCISCO PIZARRO[18] By J. T. Trowbridge (1471-1541)
GASPARD DE COLIGNI By Professor Creasy (1517-1572)
HENRY IV. OF FRANCE (1553-1610)
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE (1540-1596)
SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1552-1618)
MILES STANDISH[19] By Elbridge S. Brooks (1584-1656)
ALBRECHT VON WALLENSTEIN By Henry G. Hewlett (1583-1634)
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS[20] By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1594-1632)
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