Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

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Great Men and Famous Women is a work in 8 volumes by many authors including “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The first volume was edited by Charles F. Horne, a noteworthy American writer who authored mostly about history. The subjects of this volume are “Soldiers and Sailors”.

Some of the best known personalities in history covered in the first volume are Alaric The Bold, Alexander the Great, Marc Antony, Attila, Belisarius, Godfrey de Bouillon, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Clovis the First, Gaspard de Coligni, Hernando Cortes, Cyrus the Great, Diocletian, Sir Francis Drake, Edward I of England, Edward III of England, Edward the Black Prince, Bertrand du Guesclin, Gustavus Adolphus, Hannibal, Henry IV of France, Henry V of England, Hermann, John Huniades, Caius Marius, Charles Martel, Nebuchadnezzar, Pepin the Short, Francisco Pizarro, Sir Walter Raleigh, Saladin, Scipio Africanus Major, Miles Standish, Trajan, Olaf Tryggveson, Albrecht Von Wallenstein, Warwick the King-Maker, and William the Conqueror.

Charles Francis Horne was born on January 12, 1870 in Jersey City, New Jersey and died on September 13, 1942 in Annapolis, Maryland. He was an American author. He wrote or edited over a hundred texts, many of those are multi-volume books of the ancient times. He was an educator of English at the City College of New York.

His remarkable works include: The Code of Hammurabi; Great Men and Famous Women; The Great Events by Famous Historians; The Works of Jules Verne; The Protevangelium or Original Gospel of James; Source Records of the Great War; The Stories of the Greatest Nations (with co-author Edward Sylvester Ellis); Spain The Story of a Great Nation (with co-author Edward Sylvester Ellis); and Russia The Story of a Great Nation (with co-author Edward Sylvester Ellis).
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