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Book A treatise on military finance     A new edition  corrected up to the present time  By John Williamson

Download or read book A treatise on military finance A new edition corrected up to the present time By John Williamson written by John WILLIAMSON (Writer on Military Subjects.) and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England s Magnificent Gardens

Download or read book England s Magnificent Gardens written by Roderick Floud and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An altogether different kind of book on English gardens—the first of its kind—a look at the history of England’s magnificent gardens as a history of Britain itself, from the seventeenth-century gardens of Charles II to those of Prince Charles today. In this rich, revelatory history, Sir Roderick Floud, one of Britain’s preeminent economic historians, writes that gardens have been created in Britain since Roman times but that their true growth began in the seventeenth century; by the eighteenth century, nurseries in London took up 100 acres, with ten million plants (!) that were worth more than all of the nurseries in France combined. Floud’s book takes us through more than three centuries of English history as he writes of the kings, queens, and princes whose garden obsessions changed the landscape of England itself, from Stuart, Georgian, and Victorian England to today’s Windsors. Here are William and Mary, who brought Dutch gardens and bulbs to Britain; William, who twice had his entire garden lowered in order to see the river from his apartments; and his successor, Queen Anne, who, like many others since, vowed to spend little on her gardens and instead spent millions. Floud also writes of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the founder of Kew Gardens, who spent more than $40,000 on a single twenty-five-foot tulip tree for Carlton House; Queen Victoria, who built the largest, most advanced and most efficient kitchen garden in Britain; and Prince Charles, who created and designed the gardens of Highgrove, inspired by his boyhood memories of his grandmother’s gardens. We see Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, who created a magnificent garden at Blenheim Palace, only to tear it apart and build a greater one; Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, the savior of Chatsworth’s 100-acre garden in the midst of its 35,000 acres; and the gardens of lesser mortals, among them Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West, both notable garden designers and writers. We see the designers of royal estates—among them, Henry Wise, William Kent, Humphrey Repton, and the greatest of all English gardeners, “Capability” Brown, who created the 150-acre lake of Blenheim Palace, earned millions annually, and designed more than 170 parks, many still in existence today. We learn how gardening became a major catalyst for innovation (central heating came from experiments to heat greenhouses with hot-water pipes); how the new iron industry of industrializing Britain supplied a myriad of tools (mowers, pumps, and the boilers that heated the greenhouses); and, finally, Floud explores how gardening became an enormous industry as well as an art form in Britain, and by the nineteenth century was unrivaled anywhere in the world.

Book On Campaign Against Fort Duquesne

Download or read book On Campaign Against Fort Duquesne written by Douglas R. Cubbison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Seven Years' War, Sir John St. Clair served as Deputy Quartermaster General with British General Edward Braddock's disastrous campaign to capture Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio in 1755. St. Clair had great responsibilities during the campaign and was the first Deputy Quartermaster General in North America's history. History has laid a litany of blame at Braddock's feet: he was old, slow, logistically naive, a martinet poorly versed in tactics, uninterested in his soldiers' welfare and unwilling to cooperate with the colonists. Based on a new transcription of St. Clair's correspondence, this comprehensive study of Braddock's logistics offers a radical reinterpretation of the general and his campaign. The author also presents an examination of St. Clair's role as quartermaster during Brigadier General John Forbes' subsequent and successful campaign against Fort Duquesne in 1758.

Book The Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1777 1817

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  • Author : Kress Library of Business and Economics
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  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book 1777 1817 written by Kress Library of Business and Economics and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kress Library of Business and Economics Catalogue 1777 1817

Download or read book The Kress Library of Business and Economics Catalogue 1777 1817 written by Kress Library of Business and Economics and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Collection of Choice  Old and Rare Books

Download or read book A Collection of Choice Old and Rare Books written by Pickering & Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Britannica

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  • Author : Robert Watt
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  • Release : 1824
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 778 pages

Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Pickering & Chatto and published by . This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue  with Data Upon Cognate Items in Other Harvard Libraries  Supplement  covering material through 1776

Download or read book Catalogue with Data Upon Cognate Items in Other Harvard Libraries Supplement covering material through 1776 written by Kress Library of Business and Economics and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: