George Bancroft
George Bancroft
George Bancroftwas an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth3 October 1800
CountryUnited States of America
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.