John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, was the eldest surviving son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford. Born before his parents’ marriage, he and his […]
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John Carver
1 bookJohn Carver was a leader of the English Separatists who sailed on the Mayflower and became the first governor of Plymouth Colony. He helped negotiate the […]
John Graham of Claverhouse was a Scottish soldier, royal officer and Jacobite commander known as Bonnie Dundee. He enforced royal policy against Covenanters and led the […]
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and political […]
John I of France
1 bookJohn I of France, known as John the Posthumous, was born after the death of his father Louis X and lived only a few days in […]
John J. Pershing
1 bookJohn J. Pershing is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach the […]
John Joel Glanton
1 bookJohn Joel Glanton is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and empire, conquest and resistance. […]
John Laurens
1 bookJohn Laurens was a South Carolina officer who served as an aide-de-camp to George Washington and fought in several major campaigns of the American Revolutionary War. […]
John McGavock
1 bookJohn McGavock is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and family, marriage […]
Johnny Appleseed
1 bookJohnny Appleseed, born John Chapman, was an American nurseryman and missionary who planted and distributed apple nurseries across parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Later […]