Famous men and great events of the nineteenth century ..

embracing descriptions of the decisive battles of the century and the great soldiers who fought them, the rise and fall of nations, the changes in the map of the world, and the causes which contributed to political and social revolutions, discoverers and discoveries , explorers of the Tropics and Arctics, inventors and their inventions, the growth of literature, science and art, the progress of religion, morals and benevolence in all civilized nations