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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... INDEX OF NAMES Annenkof, now General, and the same who has become so well known in connection with the Central Asian Railway, which is his creation. Ball, John, who afterwards, as the last Lord Derby said to me, "wrote his name on the Alps." Bixio was originally in the Italian Navy, but passed into the Mercantile Marine; then threw himself into politics at Genoa, and later fought against the Austrians at Venice as well as the French at Rome. In 1860 he commanded the Piemonte, one of the vessels which carried Garibaldi's volunteers to Marsala, and distinguished himself at Calatafimi, Palermo and the Volturno. Bockum Dolffs, a Westphalian proprietor, born in 1802, and in the earlier sixties the head of that section of the Liberal party which might be described as the Left Centre. Bodenstedt, F1uEDR1cH, Professor of Ancient English Literature at Munich, scholar, traveller and poet, born 1819, died 1892. Cantillon was the sous-officier who in 1819 tried to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, and was handsomely provided for by the will of the first Napoleon in consequence. The question between Lord Palmerston and Mr. W. Stirling was as to the persons by whom, and the circumstances under which, the legacy had been paid. Chambers, Robert, the father of literature for the people in Scotland, and author of Vestiges of Creation, Conington, one of the best scholars produced by Oxford in the last decade of the first half of the century; later Professor of Latin. A memoir of him was published by his intimate friend, Henry Smith. Cornu, Madame. See Renan's Feuilles detachees, for a graceful notice of this excellent woman. Crowe, Mr., later Sir Joseph, well known as a great authority on Art and as Commercial Attache in Paris. Czartoryski, Prince LAD1sLAS, son of Prince A...
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