José Antonio Páez

José Celso Barbosa, president of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico.

Pompey was a radical and ambitious rule breaker who had already flouted most of the conventions of Roman politics that traditionalists were increasingly trying to insist on. The son of a ‘new man’, he had risen to military prominence by exploiting the disruption of the 80s BCE. When still in his twenties, he had put together three legions from amon

Porfírio, vendo o antigo rival da navalha à testa da insurreição, compreendeu que a sua perda era irremediável, se não desse um grande golpe; expediu dois decretos, um abolindo a Casa Verde, outro desterrando o alienista. João Pina mostrou claramente, com grandes frases, que o ato de Porfírio era um simples aparato, um engodo, em que o povo não dev

Brother Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte — Napoleon III (1808-1873) was both the first elected president of France and its last reigning monarch. A tumultuous autocrat, he was exiled three times, escaped after being sentenced to life in prison and on other occasions welcomed as a hero. A member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of France, t

What eventually did stop Pompey was a rival, in the shape of Julius Caesar, a member of an old patrician family, with a political programme in the radical tradition of the Gracchi and eventually with ambitions that led directly to one-man rule.