Produced by Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Captions marked with [TN] and the table of contents have been added while producing this file.] [Illustration: Repulsed at Torgau--Frederick waiting for morning.] GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN _A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of_ THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY VOL. II. Copyright, 1894, BY SELMAR HESS edited by Charles F. Horne [Illustration: Publisher's arm.] New-York: Selmar Hess Publisher CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE CHARLES XII. OF SWEDEN, _General John Mitchell,_ 211 ROBERT, LORD CLIVE, _W. C. Taylor, LL.D.,_ 244 STEPHEN DECATUR, _Edward S. Ellis, A.M.,_ 318 GEORGE DEWEY, _Major-General Joseph Wheeler,_ 402 PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY, _G. P. R. James,_ 223 DAVID GLASCOE FARRAGUT, _L. P. Brockett, A.M.,_ 379 FREDERICK THE GREAT, _Major-General John Mitchell,_ 237 GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI, 389 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT, _Oliver Optic,_ 343 SAM HOUSTON, _Amelia E. Barr,_ 331 THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON, _Marion Harland,_ 373 PAUL JONES, 301 FRANCOIS KELLERMANN, MARSHAL OF FRANCE, 251 JAMES LAWRENCE, 313 ROBERT EDMUND LEE, _General Viscount Wolseley,_ 363 Letter from Lee to his son on the subject of "Duty," 372 FRANCIS MARION, 296 JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, _L. Drake,_ 217 FIELD-MARSHAL COUNT VON MOLTKE, 395 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, _Colonel Clayton, R.A.,_ 262 LORD HORATIO NELSON, 279 MICHEL NEY, MARSHAL OF FRANCE, _Louise Chandler Moulton,_ 255 OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, 325 DAVID DIXON PORTER, 387 ISRAEL PUTNAM, 284 WINFIELD SCOTT, _Hon. Theodore Roosevelt,_ 338 PHILIP HENRY SHERIDAN, 358 WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, _Elbridge S. Brooks,_ 352