Boy of Versailles

XI. HORATIO NELSON
The Boy of the Channel Fleet

XII. ROBERT FULTON
The Boy of the Conestoga

XIII. ANDREW JACKSON
The Boy of the Carolinas

XIV. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The Boy of Brienne

XV. WALTER SCOTT
The Boy of the Canongate

XVI. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
The Boy of Otsego Hall

XVII. JOHN ERICSSON
The Boy of the Goeta Canal

XVIII. GARIBALDI
The Boy of the Mediterranean

XIX. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The Boy of the American Wilderness

XX. CHARLES DICKENS
The Boy of the London Streets

XXI. OTTO VON BISMARCK
The Boy of Goettingen

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Fleet of Columbus Nearing America

Walter Raleigh and the Fisherman of Devon

Peter the Great

Mrs. Washington Urges George Not to Enter the Navy

Daniel Boone's First View of Kentucky

Paul Jones Capturing the "Serapis"

Mozart and His Sister Before Maria Theresa

Lafayette Tells of His Wish to Aid America

Nelson Boarding the "San Josef"

Robert Fulton's First Experiment with Paddle Wheels

Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans

The Snow Fort at Brienne

Napoleon as a Cadet in Paris

Street in Edinburgh Where Scott Played as a Boy

Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln

Charles Dickens at Eighteen

I

Christopher Columbus The Boy of Genoa: 1446(?)-1506

A privateer was leaving Genoa on a certain June morning in 1461, and
crowds of people had gathered on the quays to see the ship sail.
Dark-hued men from the distant shores of Africa, clad in brilliant red
and yellow and blue blouses or tunics and hose, with dozens of
glittering gilded chains about their necks, and rings in their ears,
jostled sun-browned sailors and merchants from the east, and the
fairer-skinned men and women of the north.

Genoa was a great seaport in those days, one of the greatest ports of
the known world, and her fleets sailed forth to trade with Spain and
Portugal, France and England, and even with the countries to the north
of Europe. The sea had made Genoa rich, had given fortunes to the nobles
who lived in the great white marble palaces that shone in the sun, had
placed her on an equal footing with that other great Italian sea city,
Venice, with whom she was continually at war.

But all the ships that left her harbor were not trading vessels. Genoa
the Superb had many enemies always on the alert