Men Who Have Made the Empire

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George Chetwynd Griffith. Men Who Have Made the Empire

Men Who Have Made the Empire

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FOREWORD

I. WILLIAM THE NORMAN, PIRATE AND NATION-MAKER

II. EDWARD OF THE LONG LEGS “BURY ME NOT TILL YOU HAVE CONQUERED SCOTLAND”

III. THE QUEEN’S LITTLE PIRATE “THE MASTER-THIEF OF THE NEW WORLD”

IV. OLIVER CROMWELL “HEALER AND SETTLER”

V. WILLIAM OF ORANGE, OVERCOMER OF DIFFICULTIES

VI. JAMES COOK, CIRCUMNAVIGATOR

VII. LORD CLIVE, QUILL-DRIVER AND CONQUEROR

VIII. WARREN HASTINGS, THE FIRST UNCROWNED KING OF INDIA

IX. NELSON “ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY.”

X. WELLINGTON “THE PRIDE AND THE GENIUS OF HIS COUNTRY.” —Queen Victoria

XI “CHINESE GORDON” “HONOUR—NOT HONOURS”

XII. CECIL RHODES “ALL ENGLISH—THAT’S MY DREAM!”

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George Chetwynd Griffith

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Normandy had now become the most orderly and best governed country in Europe. Robbers, noble and otherwise, were ruthlessly suppressed, and the poorest possessed their goods in peace, while William himself had time to turn his thoughts to the gentler, and yet not less important, concerns of policy and love-making.

The old story of his courtship of the fair Matilda of Flanders with a riding whip is evidently a myth manufactured by some Saxon enemy, for Duke William was in the first place a gentleman, and, moreover, the lady and her parents were as anxious as he was for the marriage, seeing that he was now the most desirable of suitors. The truth is that the Church opposed their union on some shadowy grounds of consanguinity, and it did not take place until after a courtship of four years.

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