Gaius Servilius Glaucia
1 bookGaius Servilius Glaucia was a Roman politician of the late Republic and ally of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus. His career belongs to the violent factional politics of […]
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Gaius Terentius Varro
1 bookGaius Terentius Varro was one of the Roman consuls in 216 BC and shared command at the Battle of Cannae, where Hannibal destroyed a much larger […]
Galatea
1 bookGalatea is a figure of Greek mythology whose identity varies between traditions. She is best known as the sea-nymph loved by the Cyclops Polyphemus and by […]
Gaston belonged to the Foix-Grailly dynasty and was a nephew of Louis XII. Appointed to high command in Italy during the War of the League of […]
Geillis Duncan
1 bookGeillis Duncan was a teenage Scottish maidservant whose coerced confession in 1590 triggered the horrific North Berwick Witch Trials under King James VI. Suspicious of her […]
George Chinnery
1 bookGeorge Chinnery was a British painter who worked for most of his career in India and the Chinese port cities of Macau and Canton. He produced […]
George Elliot
1 bookGeorge Elliot was a Royal Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and later became involved in the First Opium War. The […]
George G. Meade
1 bookGeorge G. Meade is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and court politics and dynastic power. […]
George Harris, 1st Baron Harris was a British general who commanded the main East India Company army in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. His campaign culminated in […]
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon was a British aristocrat and financial backer of archaeological work in Egypt. His partnership with Howard Carter led to the […]