Napoleon I : the turmoil and aftermath of revolution |
Metternich : and the despotic reaction |
Bolivar : and South American independence |
Andrew Jackson : and the expanding democracy of America |
Abraham Lincolm : and the American Union |
Garibaldi : and the unification of Italy |
Palmerston : and the supremacy of Britain |
Thiers : order and revolution in France |
Gladstone : and Victorian liberalism |
Tsar Alexander II : reform and frustration in Russia |
Bismark : and the ascendancy of Prussia |
Kaiser William II : and the slide to world war |