HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 



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GrONSALVO DE CORDOVA, Hernandez, 1443?- 

 1515, Sp. commander. 



GOODYEAR, Charles, 1800-60, Am. inventor. 



GORDON, Charles George (Chinese Gordon), 

 1838-85, Eng. soldier. 



GbRTSCHAKOKF, Alexander Michaelovitch, 

 Prince, 1798-1883, Russian statesman and 

 diplomatist. 



GOTTSCHALK, Louis Moreau, 1829-69, Am. 

 composer. 



GOUGH, John B., 1822-86, Am. temperance 

 lecturer ; born in England. 



GOULD, Jay, 1836-92, Am. railway financier. 



GOUNOD, Charles Frangois, 1818-93, Fr. 

 composer. 



GRACCHUS, Caius Sempronius, 159-12(3 B. 

 C., Rom. statesman. 



GRACCHUS, Tiberius Sempronius, brother of 

 C. T. G., B. C. 168?-33?, Rom. statesman. 



GRAHAM, John, Viscount Dundee (Claver- 

 house), 16507-89, Scot, officer noted for merci- 

 less severity toward the Covenanters. 



GRANT, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-85, eight- 

 eenth president of the United States ; born in 

 Ohio ; graduated at West Point, 1843 ; served 

 in Mexico ; became a captain in 1853 ; re- 

 signed in 1854, and after passing some time at 

 St. Louis removed to Galena, 111., in 1859, 

 and engaged in business; in 1861 he was made 

 aide-de-camp to the governor of Illinois, but 

 soon after was chosen colonel of the Twenty- 

 first Illinois Volunteers, and in July of same 

 year was made brigadier-general ; made com- 

 . mander-in-chief of the Union armies in March, 

 1864 ; elected to the presidency in 1868, and 

 again in 1872, and atter the expiration of his 

 second term he traveled extensively in Europe 

 and Asia. 



GRATTAN, Henry, 1746-1820, Ir. orator and 

 statesman. 



GRAY, Asa, 1810-88, Am. botanist. 



GRAY, Thomas, 1716-71, Eng. poet. 



GREKLEY, Horace, 1811-72, Am. journal- 

 ist ; born in New Hampshire ; learned the 

 printer's trade and worked as a journeyman 

 printer in New 3fork for one year ; founded 

 the New York Tribune, 1841 ; a stanch Whig 

 and Republican, he favored Fremont for the 

 presidency in 1856, and Lincoln in 1860; ac- 

 cepted the Democratic nomination in 1872, 

 but was defeated by Grant. 



GREEN, John Richard, 1874-83, Eng. his- 

 torian. 



GREENE, Nathaniel, 1742-86, Am. Revolu- 

 tionary general. 



GREENLEAF, Benjamin, 1786-1864, Am. 

 mthematician. 



GREENLEAF, Simon, 1783-1854, Am. jurist. 



GREENOUGH, Horatio, 1805-52, Am. sculp- 



jr. 



GREGORY XIII., 1572-85, reformed the Ju- 

 lian calendar. 



GREGORY OF NYSSA, Saint, 332-94, Gr. 

 father of the Church. 



GREGORY OF TOURS, Saint, 540-95, Fr. prel- 

 ate and historian. 



GRKSHAM, Walter Q., 1832-1895, Am. 

 jurist and secretary of state. 



GREVY, Francois Paul Jules, 1807-91, Fr. 

 president. 



GREY, Lady Jane, 1537-54, gifted Eng. 

 lady ; beheaded. 



GRIMM, Friedrich Melchior, Baron, 1723- 

 1807, Ger. writer. 



GRIMM, Jakob Ludwig (1785-1863), and 

 Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859), Ger. philologists; 

 brothers. 



GROTIUS (De Groot), Hugo, 1583-1645, 

 Dutch jurist and theologian. 



GROUCHY, Emmanuel de, Marquis, 1766- 

 1847, Fr. general. 



GUATEMOZIN, 1497-1525, last Aztec emperor 

 of Mexico. 



GUELPH (or Welf), noble German family, 

 originally Italian. 



GUIZOT, Francois Pierre Guillaume, 1787- 

 1874, Fr. statesman and historian. 



GUSTAVUS I. (Gustavus Vasa), 1496-1559, 

 king of Sweden ; II. (Gustavus Adolphus), 1594 

 1632, defeated the Polish and Russian armies 

 invading Sweden ; became the head of the 

 Protestant league in Germany and defeated 

 Tilly at Leipsic in 1631, and on the banks of 

 the Lech in 1632 ; at the great battle of Liitzen, 

 Wallenstein now commanding the imperial 

 army, Gustavus was killed, his troops neverthe- 

 less gained a complete victory; III., 1746-92, 

 assassinated; IV., 1778-1837, ascended the 

 throne in 1792, but was deposed in 1809. 



GUTENBERG, Johann (Gansfleisch), 1400-68, 

 Ger. inventor of movable type and the print- 

 ing press ; first books printed about 1457 ; 

 died in poverty. 



GUZMAN, Alfonso Perez de, 1258-1309, Sp. 

 commander. 



HAHNEMANN, Samuel Christian Friedrich, 

 1755-1843, Ger. founder of homosopathy. 



HALE, Sir Matthew, 1609-76, Eng. jurist. 



HALE, Nathan, Captain, 1755-7G, Am. pa- 

 triot. 



HALEVY, Jacques F. F. E., 1799-1862, Fr. 

 composer. 



HALLAM, Arthur Henry, 1811-33, Eng. 

 critic and essayist. 



HALLAM, Henry, 1777-1859, father of pre- 

 ceding ; Eng. historian and critic. 



HALLECK, Fitz Greene, 1790-1867, Am. poet. 



HALLECK, Henry Wager, 1814-72, Am. gen' 

 eral and writer. 



