Excerpt from University Library of Autobiography: Including All the Great Autobiographies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World's Famous Men and Women Our preceding volume noted that the great Age of Revolution, the first establishment of democracy as Opposed to autocracy in the modern world, began with the American Revolution in 1775. It ended in 1804 when the French revolutionists were led by Napoleon to establish a new empire, of which the watch word was La Gloire, military glory, oppression of other nations abroad, instead of Liberty at home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.