Russell A Alger, US Secretary of War Poitiers He had taken the throne

He had taken the throne only two years earlier

Radical petitioners are staggering back from the blast issuing from the Regent's posterior

while behind him is a mounted figure

Plate 13 from the paper 'Some farther account of the fossil remains of an animal

lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross

Russell A Alger, US Secretary of War Poitiers He had taken the throneRussell A Alger, US Secretary of War, 1898. Alger (1836 1907) served as Secretary of War in President McKinley's administration from 1897 until 1899, a period that included the Spanish American War. He later sreved as a US Senator for his home state of Michigan. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book Publishers of America, 1898.