Download or read book The REBEL CHIEF Annotated written by Gustave AIMARD and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have said that the two travellers were conversing together, and the language they employed was French; the turn of their phrases, and the want of accent, led to the supposition that they were expressing themselves in their own language. "Well, Count," said the elder, "do you regret having followed my advice, and instead of being jolted over execrable roads, undertaking this journey on horseback in the company of your humble servant?" "By Jove! I should be very difficult to please were it so," the one to whom the title of count was given replied. "I have travelled through Switzerland, Italy, and the banks of the Rhine, like everybody else, and must confess that I never before saw such exquisite scenery as that which I have gazed on for the last few days--thanks to you." "You are a thousand times too polite: the scenery is really very fine, and remarkably diversified," he added, with a sardonic expression which escaped his companion; "and yet," he remarked with a stifled sigh, "I have seen finer, still." "Finer than this?" the count exclaimed, stretching out his arm, and describing a semicircle in the air; "Oh, sir, that is not possible." "You are young, my lord," the first speaker resumed with a sad smile; "your tourist travels have only been child's play. This attracts you by the contrast it forms to the other scenery, that is all; having never studied nature except from an opera stall, you did not suppose that it could hold such surprises in reserve for you; your enthusiasm has been suddenly raised to a diapason, which intoxicates you through the strangeness of the contrasts which are incessantly offered you; but if, like myself, you had wandered over the savannahs of the interior, the immense prairies over which the wild children of this country, whom civilisation has despoiled, roam in freedom--like myself, you would only have a smile of contempt for the scenery that surrounds us, and which at this moment you are admiring so conscientiously." "What you say may be true," Mr. Oliver; "unfortunately I am not acquainted with the savannahs and prairies to which you refer, and probably shall never see them." "Why not?" the first speaker interposed quickly; "You are young, rich, strong, and free--at least I suppose so. What is there to prevent you attempting an excursion into the great American desert? You are in a capital position at this moment to carry out such an expedition; it is one of those journeys, reputed impossible, of which you will be able to speak with pride hereafter when you return to your own country." "I should like it," the count answered with a tinge of melancholy; "unluckily that is impossible, for my journey must terminate at Mexico." "At Mexico?" Oliver repeated in surprise. "Alas! Yes, sir, so it is; I am not my own master, and am now obeying the influence of stranger's will. I have simply come to this country to be married." "Married! At Mexico! you, my lord?" Oliver exclaimed in astonishment. "Yes," very prosaically, "married to a woman I do not know, who does not know me either, and who doubtless feels no more love for me than I do for her: we are related--we were betrothed in the cradle, and now the moment has arrived to keep the promise made in our names by our parents--that is all." "But in that case the young lady is French?" "Not at all: she is Spanish, and I believe a bit of a Mexican." "But you are a Frenchman?" "Certainly, and from Touraine to boot," he replied with a smile. "That being so, allow me to ask, sir, how it happens that--" "Oh, very naturally so; my story will not be long, and as you seem inclined to hear it, I will tell it you in a very few words.
Download or read book Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry Abridged Annotated written by James Moore and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1865-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearless, ambitious, political, and not beloved by the men in his command, Major-General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was nicknamed "Kill Cavalry." He was the first Union officer to be wounded in the war. He fought with great tenacity and aggressiveness, leading his men sometimes to feel assured he was leading them to suicide. But he was an instrument of destruction used again and again by the Union leadership. In this biography of his military career, his comrade in the field, Dr. James Moore, takes a very affectionate and highly-regarded view of Kilpatrick. For the first time, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
Download or read book An American Princess in the Civil War Expanded Annotated written by Princess Felix Salm~Salm and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable woman relates a decade lived more fully than the entire lifetimes of any ten of her contemporaries. The daughter of an American general, married to the love of her life, she followed her husband throughout the Civil War and then to more adventures abroad. She was an American married to Prince Felix Salm-Salm, a Prussian soldier of nobility who volunteered his services for the Union cause in the Civil War. During the war, Princess Agnes tended to the wounded and dying on the battlefield. But she also met Abraham Lincoln, kissed him, and offers one of the most interesting descriptions of him. The post-war period found Prince Salm-Salm in service to Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. With indomitable courage, Princess Agnes worked to get her husband out of prison when he was captured with Maximilian. Escaping execution, the pair left for Europe. There they met with Bismarck, Wilhelm I, Lord and Lady Palmerston, and many other notables. During the Franco-Prussian War, Agnes once again found herself caring for soldiers near the front while her husband was serving in battle. Crushed when he was killed, she nevertheless continued service until the end of the war. With her nerves frayed and her health failing, she seriously considered joining a nunnery. Settling in Germany, she penned this amazing memoir of a life lived ten-fold. Despite her traumas and sorrows, her lively and attractive intelligence shines through her writing with wit and irony. For the first time ever, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
Download or read book Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses the Book of the psalmes and Song of songs or Canticles written by Henry Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pearl strings Containing the annotations written by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan Khazrajī and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lawyers Reports Annotated Book 1 70 written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rebel Chief written by Gustave Aimard and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annotations Upon the Holy Bible Wherein the Sacred Text is Inserted and Various Readings Annex d Together with the Parallel Scriptures The More Difficult Terms in Each Yerse Explained Seeming Contradictions Reconciled Questiond and Doubts Resolved And the Whole Text Opened by the late Reverend M Matthew Poole Vol II being a continuation of Mr Pool s sic worke by certain judicious and learned divines written by Matthew Poole and published by . This book was released on 1700 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rebel Chief written by Gustave Aimard and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annotations On the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses the Psalms of David and the Song of Solomon with a Memoir of the Author written by Henry Ainsworth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Download or read book Annotations Upon the Holy Bible written by Matthew Poole and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annotations Upon the Fourth Book of Moses Called Numbers written by Henry Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1619 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms By H Hammond written by and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rebel Scout Expanded Annotated written by Captain Thomas Nelson Conrad and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1904-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...thank God, the Rebel Scout has lived long enough to outgrow many of the prejudices engendered by the war." Though able to write those words in 1905, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Dickinson College-educated Maryland native, Thomas Conrad was a passionate fighter for the Rebel cause. Working as a scout in the command of J.E.B. Stuart, he fought alongside his Phi Kappa Sigma buddy and life-long friend, Daniel Mountjoy Cloud. Along the way, he met and ate with Jefferson Davis and was part of a plan (separate from the Booth conspirators) to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. According to Conrad: "Neither President Davis nor his secretary of war had any knowledge of my contemplated attempt to capture Mr. Lincoln and bring him to Richmond. I consulted only the military secretary of General Bragg, and General Bragg at that time had command of Richmond and its defenses. This military secretary enjoined me, above all things, not to hurt a hair upon Lincoln’s head, or treat him with the slightest indignity." By chance, one of Conrad's men met up with John Wilkes Booth during his escape and furnished him with one of Conrad's horses, on which Booth rode to the site of his death. After the war, Conrad was president of what is today Virginia Tech. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above. Buy it today!
Download or read book Annotations on the Pentateuch written by Henry Ainsworth and published by Christian Classics Reproductions. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, the booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles VVherein the Hebrevv vvords and sentences, are compared with, and explained by the ancient Greeke and Chaldee versions, and other records and monuments of the Hebrewes: but chiefly by conference with the holy Scriptures, Moses his words, lawes and ordinances, the sacrifices, and other legall ceremonies heretofore commanded by God to the Church of Israel, are explained. With an advertisement touching some objections made against the sinceritie of the Hebrew text, and allegation of the Rabbines in these annotations. As also tables directing unto such principall things as are observed in the annotations upon each severall booke. By Henry Ainsworth.
