Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was Elizabeth I’s childhood friend, favourite and one of the most powerful men of her reign. The mysterious death of his […]
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Spartacus
7 booksSpartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped from a school at Capua in 73 BC and became the leading figure in a massive revolt of enslaved […]
Subutai
7 booksSubutai was one of the greatest generals of the Mongol Empire and served Genghis Khan and Ögedei across an extraordinary geographic range. He directed campaigns in […]
Vitellius
7 booksVitellius was one of the four Roman emperors who ruled during the civil war of AD 69. Proclaimed by the Rhine armies, he defeated Otho’s forces […]
Walter Raleigh
7 booksWalter Raleigh was an English courtier, writer, soldier and explorer of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. His colonial ventures, rivalry at court and eventual execution […]
William Pitt the Younger
7 booksWilliam Pitt the Younger was British prime minister during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. His career was defined by financial reform, war leadership, union with […]
William Tecumseh Sherman
7 booksWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was a Union general known for campaigns that targeted the Confederacy’s military resources and capacity to continue war. He helped win at Vicksburg […]
Æthelstan
7 booksÆthelstan was king of the Anglo-Saxons and is often treated as the first king of a unified England. His victory at Brunanburh in 937 and his […]
Ahhotep I
6 booksAhhotep I was an Egyptian queen of the late Seventeenth Dynasty and early New Kingdom. She belonged to the royal family that fought the Hyksos and […]
Ahmose I
6 booksAhmose I was the founder of Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty and a central ruler in the creation of the New Kingdom. He completed the expulsion of the […]