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Excerpt from The Life of Charles Grant: Sometime Member of Parliament for Inverness-Shire and Director of the East India Company Little need be said by way of introduction to the Life of Charles Grant. It seems surprising that no complete Biography of the greatest Director of the East India Company has yet been published, though the time during which he occupied a seat on the Direction extended over the most important epoch in the making of British India, and during the whole of that memorable period he exercised a strong and effectual influence over the counsels of the home Government of that day. My most cordial thanks are due to the family for the kind manner in which they have placed at...
Presents the Otto von Bismarck in his many facets: as a military strategist, as a master of foreign affairs, and as a major force in social and economic reform who united Germany "by iron and blood."
Sir Charles Grant Robertson presents a fascinating biography of one of the most controversial figures of the Renaissance period. Deftly weaving together historical fact and apocryphal legend, Robertson paints a vivid picture of Caesar Borgia, the charismatic but ruthlessly ambitious son of Pope Alexander VI. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.