Prescott, William Hickling (1796-1859) - An American historian. Blinded
in one eye by a hard crust of bread thrown by a Harvard classmate, he
would later lose sight in his other eye, and go on, with the aid of a
noctograph, to devote his life to the scholarly study of Spanish history.
History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) - Prescott's best-known work is a
dramatic narrative description of how the war with Mexico arose over
boundary disputes when Texas was annexed by the United States.
