Russell A Alger, US Secretary of War Poitiers lyrics by Harry Greenbank and

lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross

He had taken the throne only two years earlier

A young Lord Nuffield riding a bicycle down a country lane

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

British pop group The Hollies performing on the BBC television chart programme Top Of The Pops

Russell A Alger, US Secretary of War Poitiers lyrics by Harry Greenbank andRussell 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.