Men Who Have Made the Empire
by George Chetwynd Griffith
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About this eBook
- Author
- Griffith, George Chetwynd, 1857-1906
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Great Britain -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 63148
- Release Date
- September 8, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE EMPIRE
- 2.Untitled
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.FOREWORD
- 6.I WILLIAM THE NORMAN, PIRATE AND NATION-MAKER
- 7.II EDWARD OF THE LONG LEGS “ BURY ME NOT TILL YOU HAVE CONQUERED SCOTLAND ”
- 8.III THE QUEEN’S LITTLE PIRATE “ THE MASTER-THIEF OF THE NEW WORLD ”
- 9.IV OLIVER CROMWELL “ HEALER AND SETTLER ”
- 10.V WILLIAM OF ORANGE , OVERCOMER OF DIFFICULTIES
- 11.VI JAMES COOK , CIRCUMNAVIGATOR
- 12.VII LORD CLIVE , QUILL-DRIVER AND CONQUEROR
- 13.VIII WARREN HASTINGS , THE FIRST UNCROWNED KING OF INDIA
- 14.IX NELSON “ ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY. ”
- 15.X WELLINGTON “ THE PRIDE AND THE GENIUS OF HIS COUNTRY. ” —Queen Victoria.
- 16.XI “ CHINESE GORDON ” “ HONOUR—NOT HONOURS ”
- 17.XII CECIL RHODES “ ALL ENGLISH—THAT’S MY DREAM! ”
- 18.Transcriber’s Note
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