Download or read book The Essex Institute Historical Collections Vol 44 Classic Reprint written by Essex Institute and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 44 The granite monument bears the name of Frederick Townsend Ward, another son, but it does not mark his grave. His ashes rest in alien soil, consecrated with the strange rites of oriental sepulture, and at sung-kiang in China, with the recurring solemnities of each new year, incense rises over them from the garden of a temple dedi cated to Confucius thousands of years ago. It is the pur pose of this paper to trace the unique career of the Salem school-boy who left home to wrest favors from fortune, and, a stranger in a strange land, without influence, means or military education, to become, not many years later, a trusted general officer in the Imperial Army and Navy of China, destined to die in battle, at the age of thirty, a Mandarin of high rank and wealth, married to the daughter of a Mandarin of high rank and wealth, for the repose of whose soul pagan rites and posthumous honors were de creed, such as are rarely accorded to the manes of a native hero, and never before fell to the lot of one of western blood. Frederick Townsend Ward was born in Salem, Novem ber 29, 1831, possibly in a fine, old, pie-revolutionary, wooden house in which his parents seem at one time to have been domiciled, and which is still standing just, be low Monroe Street and the Public Library on the north side of Essex Street. He was their first child, and they were very young. His father, Frederick Gamaliel Ward, a Salem ship-master and, later, a ship-broker and merchant in New York City, was barely twenty-one when he mar ried Elizabeth Colburn Spencer, a girl of nineteen, both of them tracing back for generations their Salem lineage. The mother seems to have had literary leanings, and to have spiced her correspondence with graceful bits of verse. The Institute has miniature paintings of both of them.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Frederick Townsend Ward From the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute Vol XLIV 1908 written by Robert Samuel RANTOUL and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Naval War of 1812 written by William S. Dudley and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the War of 1812 the U.S. Navy came of age. In fleet actions on the lakes and single ship engagements at sea, American men of war defeated Royal Navy ships of similar force. Naval officers such as Isaac Hull, Stephen Decatur, Oliver H. Perry, David Porter and Thomas Macdonough became heroes, and their ships, Constitution, United States, Niagara, Essex, and Saratoga, symbols for an American public proud of its navy. The three volumes will again call to mind the famous naval actions and events of our second war of independence with Great Britain"--Introduction.
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