Heroes of the Nations series

The Heroes of the Nations series was a collection of biographies of famous people who influenced nations and changed the course of history. The series was published in New York and London from 1890 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The founding editor was Evelyn Abbott. Each biography was printed in one crown octavo volume in large type with maps and illustrations.^[1]

Titles / Order in series[]

• Horatio Nelson and the naval supremacy of England by W. Clark Russell 1
• Gustavus Adolphus by C. R. L. Fletcher 2
• Pericles and the golden age of Athens by Evelyn Abbott 3
• Theodoric the Goth, the Barbarian Champion of Civilization by Thomas Hodgkin 4
• Sir Philip Sidney : type of English chivalry in the Elizabethan age by H. R. Fox Bourne 5
• Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system by W. Warde Fowler 6
• John Wycliffe by Lewis Sergeant 7
• Napoleon, warrior and ruler, and the military supremacy of revolutionary France by William O'Connor Morris 8
• Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots in France by Paul Ferdinand Willert 9
• Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic by J. L. Strachan-Davidson 10
• Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery by Noah Brooks 11
• Prince Henry the Navigator by C. Raymond Beazley 12
• Julian, philosopher and emperor, and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity by Alice Gardner 13
• Louis XIV and the zenith of the French monarchy by 14
• Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire by R. Nisbet Bain 15
• Lorenzo de'Medici and Florence in the Fifteenth Century by Edward Armstrong 16
• Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death by Mrs. Oliphant 17
• Columbus: His Life and Voyages (Condensed) by Washington Irving 18
• Robert the Bruce and The Struggle For Scottish Independence by Herbert Maxwell 19
• Hannibal: Soldier, Statesman, Patriot by William O'Connor Morris 20
• Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction by William Conant Church 21
• Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870 by Henry Alexander White 22
• The Cid Campeador and the Waning of the Crescent in the West, The by Henry Butler Clarke 23
• Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem by Stanley Lane-Poole 24
• Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam 25
• Alexander the Great : the merging of East and West in universal history by Benjamin Ide Wheeler 26
• Charlemagne (Charles the Great) the hero of two nations by H. W. Carless Davis 27
• Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by C. H. Firth 28
• Richelieu and the growth of French power by James Breck Perkins 29
• Daniel O'Connell and the Revival of National Life in Ireland by Robert Dunlop 30
• Saint Louis (Louis Ix. of France): The Most Christian King by Frederick Perry 31
• William Pitt Earl of Chatham and the growth and division of the British Empire 1708-1778 by Walford Davis Green 32
• Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence by Arthur Granville Bradley 33
• Henry V: the typical mediaeval hero^[2] by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford 34
• Longshanks - The Life of Edward I by Edward Jenks 35
• Augustus Caesar by John B. Firth 36
• Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway 37
• Wellington, Soldier and Statesman and the Revival of Military Power in England by William O'Connor Morris 38
• Constantine the Great by 39
• Mohammed and the Rise of Islam by D. S. Margoliouth 40
• Charles the Bold: Last Duke Of Burgundy 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam 41
• George Washington, patriot, soldier, statesman, first president of the United States by 42
• William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans by F. M. Stenton 43
• Fernando Cortes by F. A. MacNutt (link) 44
• William the Silent by Ruth Putnam 45
• Blucher by E. F. Henderson 46
• Roger the Great of Sicily by E. Curtis 47
• Canute the Great by L. M. Larson 48
• Cavour and the making of modern Italy, 1810-1861 by conte 49
• Demosthenes by A. W. Pickard-Cambridge 50

... Some other books were initially intended to be part of the series, but were published separately after the 50-volume completion of the series:

• Marlborough and the Rise of the British Army by C. T. Atkinson
• Charles the Bold by Ruth Putnam
• William the Silent by Ruth Putnam
• Isabel of Castile and the making of the Spanish nation, 1451–1504 by Ierne L. Plunket
• Alfred the Great, the truth teller, maker of England, 848–899 by Beatrice A. Lees

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