People

1809–1849

Edgar Poe was born in Boston in 1809 and was orphaned while still a child. He was taken into the Richmond household of John and Frances […]

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died 1075

Edith of Wessex was the daughter of Earl Godwin and the wife of Edward the Confessor. Crowned queen in 1045, she was educated, wealthy and active […]

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Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and political […]

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1695–1755

Edward Braddock was a British general sent to North America during the opening of the French and Indian War. His 1755 expedition against Fort Duquesne ended […]

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1770–1851

Edward Codrington was a British Royal Navy officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars and later commanded the allied fleet at the Battle of Navarino in […]

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1757–1833

Edward Pellew, later Viscount Exmouth, was a Royal Navy officer celebrated for daring actions during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He became famous after the […]

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1684–1757

Edward Vernon was a British admiral and politician best known for capturing Porto Bello in 1739 and commanding the failed expedition against Cartagena de Indias. Nicknamed […]

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1814–1869

Edwin M. Stanton was the United States secretary of war for most of the American Civil War. He managed mobilisation, military communications and the War Department […]

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1812–1883

Elisha M. Pease was a lawyer and politician who took part in the Texas Revolution and later served two terms as governor of Texas from 1853 […]

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