Le petit caporal : Napoléon Bonaparte -- "Je tiens mon affaire!" : Jean-François Champollion, the translator and the stone -- Tsar Alexander I : the king of the north and his holy alliance -- "Who can ever surpass these inexpressible heights?" : Ludwig van Beethoven -- Théodore Géricault, Romantic artists, and The raft of the Medusa -- "An archangel a little damaged" : Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Romantics -- Pandora's box : King George IV, Queen Caroline, and the Industrial Revolution -- Of prophets, preachers, and poets : William Wilberforce, Hannah More, and the abolition of slavery -- El libertador : Simón Bolívar and the Spanish American independence movement -- "To extend the boundaries of Zion" : the London Missionary Society and Rev. John Williams, "apostle of Polynesia" -- "We never had so ominous a question" : Henry Clay, the rise of America, and the value of political compromise -- "He, like another sun, illumines everything I behold" : Alexander von Humboldt and the new age of scientific inquiry -- From Plymouth Rock to Palmyra : Joseph Smith Jr., the Second Great Awakening, and the quest for divine truth.
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