William H. Prescott (1796–1859)

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1. William H. Prescott

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2. William Robertson D.D.

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4. Robert Watson

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6. Samuel Eliot Morison

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7. Henry Adams

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8. Charles Rollin

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9. Thomas Babington Macaulay

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10. T. E. Lawrence

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11. Bernal Diaz del Castillo

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12. Sir William Temple

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13. Joseph Conrad

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14. Henry Kamen

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15. Thomas Carlyle

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16. Marco Polo

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17. James Fenimore Cooper

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18. Will Durant

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19. Benvenuto Cellini

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