William Brydon
1 bookWilliam Brydon was a British East India Company assistant surgeon who survived the catastrophic 1842 retreat from Kabul and reached Jalalabad wounded and exhausted. Though not […]
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William FitzAlan was an Anglo-Norman baron and lord of Oswestry who supported Empress Matilda during the civil war known as the Anarchy. King Stephen deprived him […]
William George Keith Elphinstone was a British army officer who commanded the Kabul garrison during the First Anglo-Afghan War. Elderly and indecisive, he failed to control […]
William Grant, Lord Prestongrange was a Scottish advocate, politician and judge who served as Lord Advocate from 1746 to 1754. As Lord Advocate he prosecuted James […]
William H. Seward
1 bookWilliam H. Seward was an American antislavery politician and secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He helped manage Union diplomacy during the Civil […]
William Herbert was a Welsh soldier and Yorkist noble who became the first holder of the Herbert earldom of Pembroke. He helped Edward IV consolidate power […]
William J. Fetterman
1 bookWilliam J. Fetterman is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, empire, conquest and resistance, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter. […]
William Lobb
1 bookWilliam Lobb was a Cornish plant collector employed by the Veitch nurseries to search the Americas for commercially valuable species. His expeditions introduced plants including the […]
William McKinley
1 bookWilliam McKinley was the twenty-fifth president of the United States. His presidency included the Spanish-American War, annexation of overseas territories and the Philippine-American War before his […]
William was the son and heir of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and inherited the earldom in 1344. Joan of Kent was married to him […]