People

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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Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and political […]

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1429–1488

Elizabeth Paston was a member of the Norfolk gentry family whose correspondence survives in the Paston Letters. Her life, marriage negotiations and family disputes reveal the […]

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1565–c. 1647

Elizabeth “Bess” Throckmorton was a lady of the privy chamber to Elizabeth I and the wife of Walter Raleigh. Her secret marriage to Raleigh caused royal […]

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Emperor Meiji is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, military command and battlefield decision-making, and social change and the […]

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1837–1898

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, widely known as Sisi, was the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I. Celebrated for her beauty and unconventional habits, she resisted court […]

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