Men Who Have Made the Empire (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

William the Norman (Conqueror), Edward of the Long Legs, Francis Drake—“The Queen’s little Pirate”—Oliver Cromwell, William of Orange, James Cook, Lord Clive, Warren Hastings, Lords Nelson and Wellington, “Chinese” Gordon, and Cecil Rhodes are the powerful men of empire celebrated in this overtly patriotic 1897 collection of celebratory biographical sketches.