Charles I., of England, was also warned by an apparition, but paying no heed, was disastrously defeated at Naseby.
Queen Elizabeth is said to have been warned of her death by the apparition of her own double.
EMPERORS
Trajan and Caracalla both saw apparitions, which they recorded.
Theodosius and Julian the Apostate both beheld apparitions, at important crises in their lives.
FAMOUS MEN
Sir Robert Peel and his brother both saw Lord Byron in London when he was in reality lying dangerously ill of a fever in Patras. During the same fever, he also appeared to others.
Julius Caesar, Xerxes, Drusus, Pausanius, Dio (General of Syracuse), Admiral Coligni all saw apparitions, which made a deep impression on them in every case.
Napoleon, at St. Helena, saw and conversed with the apparition of Josephine, who warned him of his approaching death. Blucher, on the day of his death, was also told of it by an apparition. General Garfield saw and conversed with his father, latterly deceased. Lincoln had a certain premonitory dream which occurred three times in relation to important battles, and the fourth on the eve of his assassination.
Dante, son of the poet, was visited in a dream by his father, who conversed with him and told him (correctly) where to find the missing thirteen cantos of the “Commedia.”