Download or read book A Lieutenant at Eighteen written by Oliver Optic and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deck Lyon is promoted to the rank of lieutenant even though he is only eighteen."--Preface

Download or read book A Lieutenant at Eighteen written by Oliver Optic and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lieutenant at Eighteen by Oliver Optic is about a young man fighting on the side of the Union during the American Revolution who must reconcile his wide-eyed dreams and lover's heart with his duty to his country. Excerpt: "A Lieutenant at Eighteen" is the third of the series of "The Blue and the Gray—on Land." The stirring events of thirty-four years ago, when the first gun of the Great Rebellion awoke the nation from its slumber of thirteen years of peace, transformed the older boys of the day into men. Thousands of them who lacked three or four years of their majority, and some of them even six or seven years of it, flocked to the standard of the imperiled Union."

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Download or read book The New Cambridge Modern History Volume 8 The American and French Revolutions 1763 93 written by Elliot H. Goodwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History looks specifically at the American and French Revolutions in the eighteenth century.

Download or read book The Command of the Ocean written by N. A. M. Rodger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "N. A. M. Rodger provides reassessments of such famous figures as Pepys, Hawke, Howe, and St. Vincent. The particular and distinct qualities of Nelson and Collingwood are contrasted, and the world of the officers and men who made up the originals of Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower is brought to life. Rodger's comparative view of other navies - French, Dutch, Spanish, and American - allows him to make a fresh assessment of the qualities of the British."--BOOK JACKET.

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