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Book Guns at the Forks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter O'Meara
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2005-06-15
  • ISBN : 0822971283
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Guns at the Forks written by Walter O'Meara and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guns at the Forks is a special reissue commemorating the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War. In a spirited, intelligent, and informative history, O'Meara tells the story of five successive forts, particularly Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt, and the dramatic part they played in the war between 1750 and 1760. He describes Washington's capitulation at Fort Necessity, Braddock's defeat at the Monongahela, and Forbes's successful campaign to retake Fort Duquesne. Although most of the action in the book takes place at the strategically important forks of the Ohio, where present-day Pittsburgh stands, O'Meara's narrative relates the two forts to the larger story of the French and Indian War and elucidates their roles in sparking a global conflict that altered the course of world events and decided the fate of empires.

Book Guns on the Early Frontiers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Parcher Russell
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1980-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803289031
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Guns on the Early Frontiers written by Carl Parcher Russell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado. . . . It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontiers an outstanding contribution to firearms literature. It sets its own standard."--New York Times. "A Glossary of Gun Terms, ample footnotes most skillfully arranged and illustrations beyond the dreams of avarice complement the text, which achieves the miracle of scholarship without tedium."--W.H. Hutchinson, San Francisco Chronicle. "Not the least interesting portions of the book are the notes and glossary and the excellent bibliography. Here [is] a book designed primarily for the serious collector or gun historian, but whose readable style should appeal even to the casual amateur. The collecting of old guns, whether privately or by a public institution, involves a certain responsibility. These guns, whose history is inextricably linked with the history of settlement, require something more than careful preservations. They require--and the present volume goes far to supply--accurate documentation."--Canadian Historical Review. Carl P. Russell, a leading authority on firearms of the American frontier, was coordinator of planning for the science and history museums and other interpretive facilities of the National Park Service in the Western United States.

Book Guns on the Early Frontiers

Download or read book Guns on the Early Frontiers written by Carl P. Russell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThoroughly documented reference identifies guns used in America during eastern settlement and westward expansion. The highly readable survey describes those who used and sold weapons as well as those who made them. 58 rare illustrations. /div

Book The Battles of  Gravelly Run    Dinwiddie Court house   and  Five Forks   VA   1865  Argument on Behalf of Lieut  Gen  Philip H  Sheridan  U S A   Respondent

Download or read book The Battles of Gravelly Run Dinwiddie Court house and Five Forks VA 1865 Argument on Behalf of Lieut Gen Philip H Sheridan U S A Respondent written by Asa Bird Gardiner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Book Nine Men In Gray

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  • Author : Charles L. Dufour
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2015-11-06
  • ISBN : 1786254344
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Nine Men In Gray written by Charles L. Dufour and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of biographical essays, all vividly written, extensively researched, Charles L. Dufour recounts the lives of nine Confederate officers, who served their cause with dedication, skill and bravery. “Porter Alexander is not a household name today, but he should be remembered as one of Robert E. Lee’s most valuable officers. Bold and imaginative, Alexander was an artillerist whose service was requested by every Confederate army commander. He and eight other “men in gray” come to life in vivid sketches by Charles L. Dufour. Singled out are Dick Taylor, the handsome son of former president Zachary Taylor who led the Louisiana Brigade; Turner Ashby, an expert horseman whose death in battle typified the doomed gallantry of the Rebels; Pat Cleburne of the Army of Tennessee, who was called “the Stonewall of the West”; “Savez” Read, a navy man who terrorized the Atlantic seaboard in a one-gun sailing vessel; Willie Pegram, a shy Virginian who was a bold cannoneer; Lucius B. Northrop, whose abrasive personality complicated his task of feeding the army; William Mahone, whose ferocious fighting spirit belied his bantam size; and Henry Hotze, who served brilliantly as a Confederate agent and propagandist.”-Print ed.

Book George Washington and the Half King Chief Tanacharison

Download or read book George Washington and the Half King Chief Tanacharison written by Paul R. Misencik and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, which led to, as Horace Walpole quipped, Washington firing "a volley in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire." The book explores the history of the French and English rivalry for the trans-Allegheny territory and its impact on the Indians in the area. It shows how Washington and Tanacharison each sought to influence the other to gain support for their respective agendas. Washington wanted the Indians to endorse Virginia's claim to the Ohio territory, while Tanacharison wanted a war between England and France so that the Iroquois could maintain their dominance over the Ohio Indians. The book describes in detail the sequence of events through which the crafty half-king manipulated Washington into starting the war he wanted, and by his actions implicated Washington in nothing less than a cold-blooded murder.

Book The Guns at Three Forks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terrell Bowers
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-11-03
  • ISBN : 9781979388207
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Guns at Three Forks written by Terrell Bowers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war between the Union and the Confederacy had ended, but the fight is not over for the Kenyon family. Being Yankees, their presence in Three Forks, Texas, is met with hostility and resentment. Dave Kenyon defies the odds and tries to court a local girl. Then he is forced to kill the cousin of a deadly bandit leader, Angel Gervaso, who vows revenge and sends his gang to burn Three Forks to the ground. The Union boys and pro-Confederate populace must now rally together against an unbeatable force!

Book 56th 107th day  Oct  1  1880 Nov  8  1881  Report and opinion of the Court  Reports of D G  Swain  judge advocate general and of W T  Sherman  General of the Army  Papers admitted and directed to be appended to the record of proceedings

Download or read book 56th 107th day Oct 1 1880 Nov 8 1881 Report and opinion of the Court Reports of D G Swain judge advocate general and of W T Sherman General of the Army Papers admitted and directed to be appended to the record of proceedings written by Gouverneur Kemble Warren and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iron Age

Download or read book The Iron Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 2090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Forks

Download or read book Five Forks written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Passing of the Armies

Download or read book The Passing of the Armies written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the Union army's most celebrated officers, The Passing of the Armies offers a remarkable first-hand account of the final campaign of the Army of the Potomac. In his gripping memoir, first published in 1915, General Joshua Lawrence

Book The Passing of the Armies

Download or read book The Passing of the Armies written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  Findings  and Opinions of the Court of Inquiry  56th 107th day  Oct  1  1880 Nov  8  1881  Report and opinion of the Court  Reports of D G  Swain  judge advocate general and of W T  Sherman  General of the Army  Papers admitted and directed to be appended to the record of proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings Findings and Opinions of the Court of Inquiry 56th 107th day Oct 1 1880 Nov 8 1881 Report and opinion of the Court Reports of D G Swain judge advocate general and of W T Sherman General of the Army Papers admitted and directed to be appended to the record of proceedings written by Gouverneur Kemble Warren and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drums In The Forest

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  • Author : Alfred Proctor James
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2005-05-15
  • ISBN : 9780822972815
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Drums In The Forest written by Alfred Proctor James and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published to commemorate the bicentennial of Pittsburgh's founding, Drums in the Forest is now reissued to mark the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War. It comprises two parts: the first, by Alfred Proctor James, provides the historical background leading up to the capture of Fort Duquesne by the British; the second, by Charles Morse Stotz, is a description of the five forts built at the forks of the Ohio between 1754 and 1815.

Book The Guns at Three Forks

Download or read book The Guns at Three Forks written by Terrell L. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war between the Union and the Confederacy had ended. But the fight was not over for the Kenyon family. Being Yankees, their presence in Three Forks, Texas is met with hostility and resentment. But when Dave Kenyon is forced to kill the cousin of a bandit leader, the Union boys and pro-Confederate populace must rally together.

Book Southern Historical Society Papers

Download or read book Southern Historical Society Papers written by Southern Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: