THE WORLD’S LEADERS
A NEW SERIES OF BIOGRAPHIES
Edited by W. P. Trent
Each, with portraits. Large 12mo. $1.75 net.
H. W. Boynton’s The World’s Leading Poets.—Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe.
G. B. Rose’s The World’s Leading Painters.—Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Velasquez, Rembrandt.
W. L. Bevan’s The World’s Leading Conquerors.—Alexander, Cæsar, Charles the Great, The Ottoman Conquerors of Europe, Cortes and Pizarro, Napoleon.
Other Volumes in Preparation.
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The World’s Leaders
Edited by W. P. Trent
THE WORLD’S
LEADING CONQUERORS
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, CÆSAR, CHARLES
THE GREAT, THE OTTOMAN SULTANS,
THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORS, NAPOLEON
BY
W. L. BEVAN
Doctor of Political Science, Munich; Sometime Fellow of Columbia
University; Professor of History, University of the South
WITH PORTRAITS
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1913
Copyright, 1913,
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published March, 1913
THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS
RAHWAY, N. J.