People

Robert Harley is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, political ambition and government, and court politics and dynastic power. These […]

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Robert McNamara is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and crime, espionage and covert power. These […]

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1810–1890

Robert Napier was a British Indian Army engineer and commander who served in the Sikh Wars, the Indian Rebellion and campaigns in China. He led the […]

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c. 11th century–1055

Robert of Jumièges was a Norman churchman who became bishop of London and then archbishop of Canterbury under Edward the Confessor. He was associated with the […]

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1788–1850

Robert Peel was a British statesman who twice served as prime minister and helped create modern Conservative politics. He established the Metropolitan Police, reformed criminal law […]

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Robert Townsend was a New York merchant and journalist who served as the Culper Spy Ring agent known as Samuel Culper Jr during the American Revolutionary […]

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1776–1830

Robert Townsend Farquhar was a British colonial administrator who served in Mauritius and other imperial posts during the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic periods. His career reflects the […]

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legendary

Robin Hood is the legendary English outlaw of the Sherwood tradition, celebrated for resistance to corrupt authority and aid to the poor. The Robin Hood tradition […]

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1671–1734

Rob Roy MacGregor was a Scottish Highland cattle dealer and clan leader whose financial collapse drew him into conflict with the Duke of Montrose and the […]

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Roger Bacon was a thirteenth-century English Franciscan philosopher whose work ranged across optics, language, mathematics, theology and the study of nature. In the Opus Majus and […]

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