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Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century

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Progress of the Nineteenth CenturyFrontispiece

Duke of Chartres at the Battle of Jemappes21

Battle of Chateau-Gontier22

Death of Marat31

Last Victims of the Reign of Terror32

Marie Antoinette Led to Execution37

The Battle of Rivoli38

Napoleon Crossing the Alps47

Napoleon and the Mummy of Pharaoh48

Napoleon Bonaparte53

The Meeting of Two Sovereign54

The Death of Admiral Nelson59

Murat at the Battle of Jena60

The Battle of Eylau69

The Battle of Friedland70

The Order to Charge at Friedland79

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit80

Marshal Ney Retreating from Russia89

General Blücher’s Fall at Ligny90

The Battle of Dresden, August 26 and 27, 181394

Famous English Novelists95

The Eve of Waterloo99

Wellington at Waterloo Giving the Word to Advance100

Retreat of Napoleon from Waterloo109

The Remnant of an Army110

Illustrious Leaders of England’s Navy and Army119

James Watt, the Father of the Steam Engine120

Great English Historians and Prose Writers129

Famous Popes of the Century130

Great English Statesmen (Plate I)139

Britain’s Sovereign and Heir Apparent to the Throne140

Popular Writers of Fiction In England149

Great English Statesmen (Plate II)150

Potentates of the East159

Landing in the Crimea and the Battle of Alma160

The Congress at Berlin, June 13, 1878169

The Wounding of General Bosquet170

The Battle of Champigny179

Noble Sons of Poland and Hungary180

Noted French Authors189

Napoleon III. at the Battle of Solferino190

Great Italian Patriots199

The Zouaves Charging the Barricades at Mentana200

Noted German Emperors209

Renowned Sons of Germany210

The Storming of Garsbergschlosschen219

Crown Prince Frederick at the Battle of Froschwiller220

Present Kings of Four Countries229

Great Men of Modern France230

Russia’s Royal Family and Her Literary Leader257

Four Champions of Ireland’s Cause258

Dreyfus, His Accusers and Defenders281

The Dreyfus Trial282

The Bombardment of Alexandria291

Battle Between England and the Zulus, South Africa292

The Battle of Majuba Hill, South Africa301

Two Opponents in the Transvaal War302

Typical American Novelists307

Two Powerful Men of the Orient308

Four American Presidents409

Great American Orators and Statesmen410

The Battle of Resaca de la Palma419

Great American Historians and Biographers420

Great Men of the Civil War in America445

The Attack on Fort Donelson446

General Lee’s Invasion of the North455

The Sinking of the Alabama, etc.456

The Surrender of General Lee465

The Electoral Commission Which Decided Upon Election of President Hayes466

Prominent American Political Leaders475

Noted American Journalists and Magazine Contributors476

The U.S. Battleship “Oregon”483

In the War-Room at Washington484

Leading Commanders of the American Navy, Spanish-American War487

Leading Commanders of the American Army488

Prominent Spaniards in 1898497

Popular Heroes of the Spanish-American War498

The Surrender of Santiago501

United States Peace Commissioners of the Spanish-American War502

Illustrious Sons of Canada521

Great Explorers in the Tropics and Arctics522

Inventors of the Locomotive and the Electric Telegraph539

Edison Perfecting the First Phonograph540

The Hero of the Strike, Coal Creek, Tenn.557

Arbitration558

Illustrious Men of Science in the Nineteenth Century575

Pasteur in His Laboratory576

Great Poets of England589

Great American Poets590

Count Tolstoi at Literary Work603

New Congressional Library at Washington, D. C.604

Famous Cardinals of the Century615

Noted Preachers and Writers of Religious Classics616

Greater New York629

Delegates to the Universal Peace Conference at The Hague, 1899630

Key to above631

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