1848
Overview page. Subjects: Literature.
The most celebrated and widespread of the 19th-c. European revolutions proved also a crucial turning point in the Italian Risorgimento. Beginning with an insurrection in Palermo in January,...
Tower, Charlemagne
in American National Biography Online
January 1999; p ublished online February 2000 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Banking; Diplomatic History; International Relations. 798 words.
Tower, Charlemagne (17 April 1848–24 February 1923), diplomat and financier, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Charlemagne Tower, a lawyer and industrialist, and Amelia...