THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WORLD LEADERS OF ALL TIME

7 Abraham Lincoln 7 The Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre—After the Act, wood engraving from Harper’s Weekly, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Otto von Bismarck (b. April 1, 1815, Schönhausen, Altmark, Prussia [Germa ...

7 Otto von Bismarck 7 minister of Prussia (1862–71). In 1864 Bismarck led Prussia to ally with Austria in order to provoke war w ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 survive the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. When the Austrians and British thr ...

7 Otto von Bismarck 7 Bismarck had not counted on the emergence of new parties such as the Catholic Centre or the Social Democra ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 the U.S. abolition movement, and he became the first black citizen to hol ...

7 Frederick Douglass 7 literature as well as a primary source about slavery from the bonds- man’s viewpoint. To avoid recapture ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 During the Civil War (1861– 65) Douglass became a consultant to President ...

7 Victoria 7 sympathies. He also became the dominant figure and influence in her life. For both the queen and the prince consort ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 suspected, without any foundation, of trying to influence the government ...

7 Victoria 7 One of the bonds shared by Victoria and Disraeli was a romantic attachment to the East and the idea of empire. She ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 tarnished crown—an achievement of character, as well as of longevity. It ...

7 Sitting Bull 7 for his courage and wisdom, Sitting Bull was made princi- pal chief of the entire Sioux nation about 1867. In 1 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Hunger led more and more Sioux to surrender, and in May 1877, Sitting Bul ...

7 Theodore Roosevelt 7 Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 The Early Years In frail health as a boy, Roosevelt was educated by priva ...

7 Theodore Roosevelt 7 Theodore Roosevelt as a young man. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 On September 14, 1901, McKinley died after being shot by an assassin, and ...

7 Theodore Roosevelt 7 Theodore Roosevelt photographed in Colorado in 1905. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. government’s f ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 in Congress degenerated into a spiteful stalemate that blocked any furthe ...