EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Robert Dundas Letters  1794 June 19 1814 September 5

Download or read book Robert Dundas Letters 1794 June 19 1814 September 5 written by Robert Dundas and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter to the Lord Avocate, dated June 19, 1794, informing him that he is enclosing a letter from Sir James Grant which was returned to him from London and which he answered 26 June 1794; Letter to Messrs. Spottiswood and Robertson, informing them that he is accepting the offer of Executor.

Book The Architecture of Robert   James Adam  1758 1794

Download or read book The Architecture of Robert James Adam 1758 1794 written by Arthur Thomas Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scottish People and the French Revolution

Download or read book The Scottish People and the French Revolution written by Bob Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations.

Book The Napoleonic   Dad  s Army

Download or read book The Napoleonic Dad s Army written by Paul L Dawson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the crisis year of 1792 when war against France was at its closest, a variety of societies and associations of ‘Loyal Britons’ were set up throughout Britain. Their aim was to organise patriotic, anti-French forces in defense of king and country, and to help maintain the established order. The need to provide an internal defense force resulted in the Volunteer Act of 1794. It witnessed the formation of hundreds of volunteer regiments on the upswell in loyalist sentiment following the disorder and instability witnessed across the Channel in Revolutionary France. By 1798, there were 118,000 volunteers but, faced with the possibility of a French invasion of Southern England, William Pitt’s government aimed to expand this number substantially. By 1804 there were an astonishing 380,000 volunteers under arms and the various Corps made up half to one third of all the home service forces. When we add in those volunteers who agreed to serve overseas, as garrison troops in India for example, the number grows to approximately 800,000 – meaning that around one in every five adult males participated in military activities. This amazing groundswell of patriotic fervour has seldom been investigated before. Using diaries and archive sources, this book seeks to explore the ‘Dad’s Army’ of the Napoleonic Wars. These men were far more than local bands of volunteers, they represented a militarisation of society not previously seen and which was repeated again when the world was thrown into war in the twentieth century.

Book Dundee

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles McKean
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781845860165
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dundee written by Charles McKean and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating title traces the evolution of Dundee from wealthy renaissance port - and second city of Scotland - to international textiles manufacturer and trader. Until now, despite being at the heart of key events in Scottish history, Dundee has remained invisible behind its later Victorian mask. Now Dundee: Renaissance to Enlightenment examines Dundee thoroughly in a rich mixture of urban, economic, political, social, medical, cultural, imperial, maritime and architectural histories. The book contains over 100 illustrations, specially selected for this volume, many of which have never been seen before. These are integral to the story and are used to explain or illuminate history. This book helps to recover Dundee's rightful place in European history, and offers Scots a different perspective on their national history.

Book The Waterloo Roll Call

Download or read book The Waterloo Roll Call written by Charles Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Richard Cobden

Download or read book The Letters of Richard Cobden written by Richard Cobden and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Cobden's Letters covers the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the preliminary negotiations over the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1860. It reveals the tension between public and private life experienced by Cobden from 1854 until 1859.

Book Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation

Download or read book Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation written by National Library of Ireland and published by Boston : G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1965 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chesapeake Campaign 1813 1814

    Book Details:
  • Author : Center of Center of Military History United States Army
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2014-12-20
  • ISBN : 9781505646443
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Chesapeake Campaign 1813 1814 written by Center of Center of Military History United States Army and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chesapeake Campaign, 1813-1814, examines a pivotal series of military operations during the War of 1812, many of which remain unknown to most Americans. Most know of the embarrassment that the British army caused when it entered Washington, D.C., to burn the Capitol, the president's mansion, and other government buildings. Many are also aware that during a battle three weeks later a garrison flag of a U.S. Army post inspired the writing of a patriotic song that eventually became our national anthem. In addition to the legacy of the "Star Spangled Banner," the Chesapeake Campaign holds far greater historical and military significance.As Britain concentrated its military and naval might against Napoleon in Europe, it could commit few forces to defend its possessions in North America, in what was considered a troublesome sideshow. The campaign started as a strategic effort to disrupt American commerce and divert U.S. forces, including most of the Regular Army, from continued incursions into the Upper and Lower Canadian provinces. With Napoleon's exile to Elba in 1814, the British could now concentrate on the war in America and dispatched additional ships and men. After executing a successful raid on Washington, British leaders turned their attention on the more militarily important and prosperous port city of Baltimore. Despite a combined land and sea attack, the operation failed. Together with news that American forces had also defeated a British invasion along the Lake Champlain corridor at Plattsburgh, New York, the victory at Baltimore gave U.S. peace commissioners in Ghent, Belgium, a much stronger position from which to negotiate the terms of the treaty that ended the war.

Book The House of Commons

Download or read book The House of Commons written by R. G. Thorne and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1986 with total page 3610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Commons volumes, part of the History of Parliament series, are a major academic project describing the House's members, constituencies and activities covering the period 1386-1832. Consists of biographies of every person who sat as a member of the House during the period concerned; descriptions of each election during the period in each constituency; and an introductory survey, pulling together and analysing the information given in the biographies and constituency histories.

Book The Staff Ride

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Glenn Robertson
  • Publisher : Government Printing Office
  • Release : 2014-12-11
  • ISBN : 9780160925436
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book The Staff Ride written by William Glenn Robertson and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to plan a staff ride of a battlefield, such as a Civil War battlefield, as part of military training. This brochure demonstrates how a staff ride can be made available to military leaders throughout the Army, not just those in the formal education system.

Book Developments in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland  1789 1829

Download or read book Developments in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland 1789 1829 written by Christine Johnson and published by Edinburgh : J. Donald. This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Africa a Century Ago

Download or read book South Africa a Century Ago written by Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: