The Project Gutenberg e-Book of Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1. Editor: Charles F. Horne
by Charles F. Horne
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
- Title
- 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
- Credits
- Produced by Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- CT: History: Biography
- Subject
- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 26421
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26421
- Release Date
- August 27, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN
- 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.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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