Gaius Cassius Longinus
11 booksGaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator and general who became one of the principal organisers of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar. After the assassination in […]
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
11 booksGebhard Leberecht von Blücher was a Prussian field marshal and one of Napoleon’s most determined opponents. His army’s arrival at Waterloo in 1815 was decisive in […]
George III
11 booksGeorge III was king of Great Britain and Ireland during the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and much of the Napoleonic conflict. His long […]
Margaret Beaufort
11 booksMargaret Beaufort was the daughter of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and became the mother of Henry Tudor at the age of thirteen. Widowed during the […]
Odysseus
11 booksOdysseus was the king of Ithaca, a Greek commander at Troy and the hero of the Odyssey. He is associated with strategy, diplomacy and the wooden […]
Philip IV of France
11 booksPhilip IV of France, known as Philip the Fair, ruled from 1285 to 1314 and strengthened royal authority through law, taxation and confrontation with powerful institutions. […]
Agamemnon
10 booksAgamemnon was the king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek coalition in the Trojan War. His dispute with Achilles weakens the Greek army, and traditions […]
Darius III
10 booksDarius III was the last king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, ruling from 336 to 330 BC. He inherited a vast but politically strained state just […]
George IV of the United Kingdom
10 booksGeorge IV served as prince regent from 1811 during his father’s illness and became king of the United Kingdom in 1820. He was a major patron […]
Giordano Bruno
10 booksGiordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher, Dominican friar and cosmological thinker executed for heresy in Rome in 1600. His ideas about an infinite universe and his […]