Albert Barnes (1798-1870) was an American theologian, born at Rome, New York, on December 1, 1798. He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtow...
And voices of triumph are blending: On night’s dark wings rides Victory,— Leipzig, sing ye! sing ye the fight of the free! Our hoary sires of the ancient day, When Varus was routed by Hermann, The Kaisers that taught haughty Rome to obey, That hunted the Huns and the Turks away,...
He gave his country two decades of prosperity under a stable, authoritarian government but finally led it to defeat in the Franco-German War (1870–71).Youth in exile He was the third son of Napoleon I’s brother Louis Bonaparte, who was king of Holland from 1806 to 1810, and his wife...