Download or read book A Gentleman Volunteer written by George Hennell and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Hennell, born about 1785 the son of a Coventry ribbon manufacturer and tradesman, joined Wellington's army in the Peninsula as a Volunteer, was commissioned in the field in the Forty-third Light Infantry, and served through the campaigns of 1812-12. Of his letters home twenty-six (all but two of them unpublished) survive, and these have been edited by the historian Michael Glover with a general introduction, summaries of the events in the campaign covered by the letters, notes and appendices. The discovery of the letters represents a considerable find. Hennell is particularly good at conveying the detail of everyday life in the field and camp and from his vivid pen the reader can gain a first-hand officer on active service more than a century and a half ago. He is exceptional as a reporter because he not only recounts events as they happen but tries to analyse his own reactions to the dangers and horrors through which he is passing. He sometimes illustrated his letters with diagrams and fluent sketches, several of which are reproduced in this book. Hennell's story begins dramatically in the thick of the action when as a raw recruit armed only with a letter of introduction to General Picton he joins the British camp just two days before the bloody storming of the citadel of Badajoz. It ends with the victorious army descending the Pyrenees to invade the soil of France shortly before the fall of Napoleon. -- Dust jacket.

Download or read book Gentlemen Volunteers written by Arlen J. Hansen and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the American ambulance drivers corps during World War I is also a companion research reference to some of the greatest writers, editors, and philosophers of the 20th century. Young men from all parts of the country made starry eyed commitments to serving in Europe, finding a brutal reality for which Harvard or Yale had not prepared them. Among the most famous were John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Edward Weeks, and Malcolm Cowley. Hansen (English, U. of the Pacific) has gathered together letters, writings, and research to provide the historical landscape responsible for some of the best war literature ever produced. Includes photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book To All Gentlemen Volunteers who Prefer Liberty to Slavery and are Hearty Friends to the Grand American Cause written by and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gentleman Volunteer written by J. S. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1745 and Europe is at war. Great armies march across the continent but for Great Britain and her allies there is only defeat. Even as the Austrian Netherlands slowly fall under the occupation of the victorious French there is talk again of a Jacobite rising, a resurgence of the old Stuart cause and bloody rebellion amongst the heather.William Moore, young and naïve, taken suddenly from his genteel upbringing and expensive schooling, finds himself thrust unwillingly into the conflict. As a Gentleman Volunteer he is expected to serve honourably with the rank and file until rewarded a commission for bravery or competence. But being a soldier doesn't come naturally; immature and inept he gradually finds himself ostracised and despised by both the officers and the redcoats campaigning alongside him. Fighting during the upheaval of the War of the Austrian Succession and the 'Jacobite '45', Moore must quickly learn his trade and discover his place amongst the chaos.Through skirmishes in Flanders, to the rout of Falkirk Muir and the final climatic Battle of Culloden, Moore gradually finds his courage and standing, helped by the inspirational men and women around him.With an array of real characters gleaned from the military records and rooted in extensive historical research, The Gentleman Volunteer is a novel of conflict, love and a 'coming of age' story in the most trying of circumstances.First in the series of 'The Redcoat' novels.

Download or read book All Gentlemen Volunteers who are Free Able and Willing to Serve His Majesty King George the Third and Have an Inclination to Enter with Captain Turner s Recruiting Party Belonging to His Majesty s Third Royal Regiment of Foot Guards Commanded by His Grace the Duke of Argyle Let Them Repair to Serjeant Murray at the Swan with Two Necks in the Market place Norwich where Each Gentleman Volunteer Shall Enter Into Present Pay and Free Quarters and for Their Further and Better Encouragement written by Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot Guards, 3rd and published by . This book was released on 1795* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The universal spelling book etc The young gentleman s volunteer universal spelling book or A new and easy guide to the English language The seventeenth edition with improvements and additions written by Daniel Fenning and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gentlemen Volunteers written by James Thomas Lapsley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Bard of Wolfe s Army written by James Thompson and published by Robin Brass Studio. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in collaboration with the Stewart Museum (The Fort, aIle-Ste-Haelaene, Montreal) and the 78th Fraser Highlanders."

Download or read book The Gentleman Volunteer s Private Instructor written by and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Gentleman of Color written by Julie Winch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.

Download or read book A Gentleman s Word written by Nilanjana Sengupta and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2012 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose arrived in Singapore in 1943 to revitalize the Indian National Army (INA). Taking the opportunity of the Japanese occupation of parts of Southeast Asia, he launched armed struggle against British colonial rule in India. Two years later, that attempt failed at the eastern gates of India. Yet, it was a temporary failure because the INA helped set in motion a series of developments within India. These would culminate in its freedom in a further two years. Bose is household name in India. He is remembered in Southeast Asia as well, particularly among Indians. However, while his contributions to India's independence movement have been recorded exhaustively, less is known about the legacy that he left behind in Southeast Asia. This book seeks to fill that gap in the international understanding of a great Indian nationalist and pan-Asianist. It records how participation in the nationalist struggle invested Southeast Asian Indians with a rare sense of dignity and helped foster a mushrooming of militant trade unions, making it difficult for the returning British planters to perpetuate their control over what had been a docile workforce. The INA's Rani of Jhansi movement proved to be a pioneering effort at drawing Southeast Asian Indian women out of their traditional roles and expectations. It inspired some of them to take up mainstream roles for the cause of equality and emancipation. A Gentleman's Word retraces this journey of self-discovery of those who were inspired by Subhas Chandra Bose. The great Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose arrived in Singapore in 1943 to revitalize the Indian National Army (INA). Taking the opportunity of the Japanese occupation of parts of Southeast Asia, he launched armed struggle against British colonial rule in India. Two years later, that attempt failed at the eastern gates of India. Yet, it was a temporary failure because the INA helped set in motion a series of developments within India. These would culminate in its freedom in a further two years. Bose is household name in India. He is remembered in Southeast Asia as well, particularly among Indians. However, while his contributions to India's independence movement have been recorded exhaustively, less is known about the legacy that he left behind in Southeast Asia. This book seeks to fill that gap in the international understanding of a great Indian nationalist and pan-Asianist. It records how participation in the nationalist struggle invested Southeast Asian Indians with a rare sense of dignity and helped foster a mushrooming of militant trade unions, making it difficult for the returning British planters to perpetuate their control over what had been a docile workforce. The INA's Rani of Jhansi movement proved to be a pioneering effort at drawing Southeast Asian Indian women out of their traditional roles and expectations. It inspired some of them to take up mainstream roles for the cause of equality and emancipation. A Gentleman's Word retraces this journey of self-discovery of those who were inspired by Subhas Chandra Bose.

Download or read book Man an Organic Community written by John H. King and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transactions written by Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Church History of England written by Charles Dodd (pseud. van Hugh Tootell.) and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Judgment House written by Gilbert Parker and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cassell s Household Guide Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy Etc written by Cassell & Company and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The London Magazine Or Gentleman s Monthly Intelligencer written by Isaac Kimber and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains engraved maps, music, poetry, British and European news, Parliamentary news, stock prices, birth, death and marriage notices, bankrupts, essays, excerpts from pamphlets, book and theater reviews, and booksellers' advertisements. Includes reprinted material from The London Courant, The Craftsman, Old England, The Westminster Journal, The London Gazette, The London Gazette Extraordinary, and other London periodicals. Includes "The Diabolical Courant: or, The Hellish Intelligencer," a satire "found printed as a news-paper, in the library of a gentleman of this city, lately deceased, who belonged to the Spiritual Court." Includes 5 essays entitled "The whimsical philosopher" (May 1749-Dec. 1750), 29 essays entitled "Harlequin" (from Jan. 1773), 69 essays entitled "The Hypochondriack" by James Boswell (Oct. 1777-June 1783), 30 essays entitled "Essays on various subjects" (Jan. 1778-Nov. 1781), and 8 essays entitled "The link-boy" (Jan.-Aug. 1782). Includes a plate titled "An Accurate pedigree of the Cromwell family" that measures 42 x 53 cm (May 1774),