LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ARISTOMENES THE MESSENIAN. ABOUT 684 B.C.

HEGESISTRATUS. ABOUT 475 B.C.

DEMETRIUS SOTER. 162 B.C.

MARIUS. 85 B.C.

ATTALUS. SIXTH CENTURY.

RICHARD, DUKE OF NORMANDY. TENTH CENTURY.

LOUIS II., COUNT OF FLANDERS. 1347.

THE DUKE OF ALBANY. FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

JAMES V., KING OF SCOTLAND. SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

SECUNDUS CURION. SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

BENVENUTO CELLINI. 1538.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. 1568.

CAUMONT DE LA FORCE. 1572.

CHARLES DE GUISE. 1591.

MARY DE’ MEDICIS. 1619.

GROTIUS. 1621.

ISAAC ARNAULD. 1635.

THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT. 1648.

CARDINAL DE RETZ. 1654.

QUIQUÉRAN DE BEAUJEU. 1671.

CHARLES II. 1680.

BLANCHE GAMOND. 1687.

JEAN BART AND THE CHEVALIER DE FORBIN. 1689.

DUGUAY-TROUIN. 1694.

THE ABBÉ COUNT DE BUCQUOY. 1700-1702.

FORSTER, MACINTOSH, ROBERT KEITH, NITHSDALE, AND OTHER CHIEFS OF THE JACOBITE INSURRECTION. 1715.

CHARLES EDWARD. 1746.

STANISLAUS LECZINSKI. 1734.

BARON TRENCK. 1746-1763.

CASSANOVA DE SEINGALT. 1757.

LATUDE. 1750-1784.

BENIOWSKI. 1771.

ESCAPE OF TWELVE PRIESTS, SAVED BY GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE. 1792.

DE CHATEAUBRUN. 1794.

SYDNEY SMITH. 1797.

PICHEGRU, RAMEL, BARTHELEMY, DELARUE, ETC. 1797.

COLONEL DE RICHEMONT.

CAPTAIN GRIVEL. 1810.

LAVALETTE. 1815.

GIOVANNI ARRIVABENE, UGONI, AND SCALVINI. 1822.

MARRAST, GUINARD, GODEFROI CAVAIGNAC, AND OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS. July, 1834.

MONSIEUR RUFIN PIOTROWSKI. 1846.

ESCAPE OF PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON FROM THE FORTRESS OF HAM.

THE CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF THE FENIAN HEAD CENTRE, JAMES STEPHENS.

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