Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 63148-h.htm or 63148-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/63148/63148-h/63148-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/63148/63148-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/menwhohavemadeem00grifiala Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE EMPIRE * * * * * * _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ =VALDAR, THE OFT-BORN. A Saga of Seven Ages.= Imp. 16mo, cloth gilt. Illustrated by HAROLD PIFFARD. Price 6s. =THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN. A Tale of the Conquest of Peru.= Crown 8vo, cloth. With Frontispiece by STANLEY L. WOOD. Price 6s. =KNAVES OF DIAMONDS. Being Tales of the Diamond Fields.= Crown 8vo, cloth. Illustrated by E. F. SHERIE. Price 3s. 6d. LONDON C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED * * * * * * [Illustration: “ALMIGHTY GOD, OF THY GOODNESS, GIVE ME LIFE AND LEAVE ONCE TO SAIL AN ENGLISH SHIP ON YONDER SEA!” (_See page 54._) _Frontispiece._] MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE EMPIRE by GEORGE GRIFFITH Third Edition London C. Arthur Pearson Limited Henrietta Street, W.C. 1899 To THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MIGHTY DEAD AND TO THE HONOUR OF THE LIVING WHO ARE CARRYING ON THEIR NOBLE WORK, THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE INSCRIBED. “_Fair is our lot--O goodly is our heritage! (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!) For the Lord our God Most High He hath made the deep as dry, He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the earth!_” A SONG OF THE ENGLISH CONTENTS I. PAGE WILLIAM THE NORMAN 1 II. EDWARD OF THE LONG LEGS 21 III. THE QUEEN’S LITTLE PIRATE 39 IV. OLIVER CROMWELL 71 V. WILLIAM OF ORANGE 97 VI. JAMES COOK 119 VII. LORD CLIVE 143 VIII. WARREN HASTINGS 169 IX. NELSON 193 X. WELLINGTON 223 XI. “CHINESE GORDON” 249 XII. CECIL RHODES 279 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY STANLEY L. WOOD