Download or read book The British Service Lee written by Ian D. Skennerton and published by . This book was released on 1982-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Service Lee written by Ian D. Skennerton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lee written by Robert J. Dynes and published by Bloomfield, Ont. : Museum Restoration Service. This book was released on 1979 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lee Enfield Rifle written by Martin Pegler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lee-Enfield is one of the 20th century's most recognisable and longest-serving military rifles. It was adopted by the British Army in 1895 and only replaced by the L1A1 SLR in 1957. It saw combat from the Boer War onwards, and thousands are still in use today; it is estimated that 17 million have been produced. Soldier's recollections of the rifle are overwhelmingly affectionate (it was known as the Smellie); today it remains a very popular target rifle for competitive shooting, and modern copies are being manufactured to meet demand. Featuring first-hand accounts, brand-new full-colour artwork and close-up photographs, this is the story of the Lee-Enfield, the innovative, reliable and long-lived rifle that equipped British and other forces through the world wars and beyond.
Download or read book The Lee Enfield Story written by Ian D. Skennerton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Lee written by Dominick Mazzagetti and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominick Mazzagetti presents an engaging account of the life of Charles Lee, the forgotten man of the American Revolution. History has not been kind to Lee—for good reason. In this compelling biography, Mazzagetti compares Lee’s life and attributes to those of George Washington and offers significant observations omitted from previous Lee biographies, including extensive correspondence with British officers in 1777 that reflects Lee’s abandonment of the Patriots’ cause. Lee, a British officer, a veteran of the French and Indian War, and a critic of King George III, arrived in New York City in 1773 with an ego that knew no bounds and tolerated no rivals. A highly visible and newsworthy personality, he quickly took up the American cause and encouraged rebellion. As a result of this advocacy and his military skills, Lee was granted a commission as a major general in the Continental Army and soon became second-in-command to George Washington. He helped organize the defense of Boston, designed defenses for New York City, and commanded the force that repelled the British attack on Charleston. Upon his return to New York in 1776, Lee was considered by some leaders of the Revolution to be an alternative to George Washington, who was in full retreat from British forces. Lee’s capture by the British in December 1776 put an end to that possibility. Lee’s subsequent release in a prisoner exchange in 1778 and return to an American command led to a dramatic confrontation with Washington on the battlefield at Monmouth, New Jersey, in June 1778. Washington chastised Lee publicly for ordering an unnecessary retreat. Lee suffered the ignominy of a court-martial conviction for this blunder and spent the remaining years to his death in 1782 attacking Washington. Although few doubted Lee’s loyalty at the time, his actions at Monmouth fueled speculation that he switched sides during his imprisonment. A discovery years after his death completed Lee’s tale. In 1862, a researcher discovered “Mr. Lee’s Plan,” a detailed strategy for the defeat of the American rebels delivered to British General William Howe while Lee was held in captivity. This discovery sealed Lee’s historical record and ended all further discussion of his contributions to the American Revolution. Today, few people even realize that Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge, was named in his honor.
Download or read book The Lee Enfield Number 1 Rifles written by Alan M. Petrillo and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the rifles used by the British soldier during World War I - the Number 1 SMLE - Short Magazine Lee Enfield. The Lee Enfield Number 1 Rifles shows full-length views, close-ups of actions and parts of all Number 1 series rifles. The book has a general history of the series, with chapters on each mark, ranging from the Mark I through the Mark VI. Models converted from earlier rifles are included. The Lee Enfield Number I Rifles has 47 photographs and 5 illustrations to complement the text. Contact Excalibur Publications, PO Box 35369, Tucson, AZ 85740-5369. Voice: (520) 575-9057. Fax: (520) 575-9068.
Download or read book Robert E Lee and Me written by Ty Seidule and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron Chernow In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy—that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and enslavement of Black Americans—and directly challenges the idea of honoring those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed attempt to achieve it. Through the arc of Seidule’s own life, as well as the culture that formed him, he seeks a path to understanding why the facts of the Civil War have remained buried beneath layers of myth and even outright lies—and how they embody a cultural gulf that separates millions of Americans to this day. Part history lecture, part meditation on the Civil War and its fallout, and part memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the deeply-held legends and myths of the Confederacy—and provides a surprising interpretation of essential truths that our country still has a difficult time articulating and accepting.
Download or read book Lee Enfield Rifles written by Ian D. Skennerton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America written by Lee Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel it identifies the source of modern liberal, republican and conservative ideas about natural rights and government in the seminal works of the Exclusion Whigs Locke, Sidney, and Tyrrell and their philosophical forebears Hobbes, Grotius, Spinoza, and Pufendorf. This study illuminates how these first Whigs and their diverse eighteenth-century intellectual heirs such as Bolingbroke, Montesquieu, Hume, Blackstone, Otis, Jefferson, Burke, and Paine contributed to the formation of Anglo-American political and constitutional theory in the crucial period from the Glorious Revolution through to the American Revolution and the creation of a distinctly American understanding of rights and government in the first state constitutions.
Download or read book British Service Rifles and Carbines 1888 1900 written by Alan M. Petrillo and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Service Rifles and Carbines 1888-1900 provides a complete review of the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield rifles and carbines, which were to carry their origins through the next hundred years of Britain's history. All Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield rifles and carbines are described and illustrated in the book, as well as the models that were later upgraded to World War I standards. The book has 60 photographs illustrating the various firearms discussed in the text. Contact Excalibur Publications, PO Box 35369, Tucson, AZ 85740-5369. Voice: (520) 575-9067. Fax: (520) 575-9068.
Download or read book M3 Lee Grant written by David Doyle and published by Afv Modeller. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the most detailed study yet presented of the M3 Lee/Grant tanks, illustrating and describing the development, production, and use of these iconic vehicles by US, Commonwealth, and Russian forces during WWII. The tanks, their power plants, and production techniques used by each manufacturer are shown from assembly line to front line through this profusely illustrated book, including numerous never before published vintage photos.
Download or read book Grant Lee written by John Frederick Charles Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Cyclopedia of Biography Containing the Lives of Distinguished Men of All Ages and Countries with Portraits Residences Autographs and Monuments written by Charles Frederick Partington and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Enfield Rifles Lee Enfield no 4 and no 5 rifles written by Charles R. Stratton and published by North Cape Publications. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lee Grant Tanks in British Service written by Bryan Perrett and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1978-06-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the design, development and operation of Lee and Grant tanks in service with the British army, up to and including their service in Burma. The experiences of tank crewmen are also covered.
Download or read book Encyclop dia Americana ed by F Lieber assisted by E Wigglesworth and T G Bradford written by Encyclopaedia Americana and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
