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Book The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Download or read book The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries written by Martha Joanna Lamb and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1879.

Book Voices Waiting to Be Heard

Download or read book Voices Waiting to Be Heard written by Stephen Darley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lengthy eyewitness accounts of events in the Revolutionary War are rare. The expedition to Quebec led by Benedict Arnold is an exception with 35 such accounts. In this book, Stephen Darley has compiled 13 unknown journals and 6 pension applications written by men who were participants on that famous march. These accounts provide details of the trek through the untamed wilderness of Maine and Canada, the New Years Eve assault on Quebec and being held as prisoners in Quebec. These personal narratives present the extreme hard ships and difficulties each writer experienced being part of a unique and historic march from Cambridge to make Canada the 14th American Colony and deprive the British of its North American base of operations. One historian concludes that “the march of Hannibal over the Alps has nothing in it of superior merit to the March of Arnold.’” he goes on to conclude that the men who were on the march have “been left an heir to oblivion, almost unwept, unhonored and sung only in a minor key.” This book will help to understand and appreciate the sacrifices made by its participants.

Book The Historical Magazine

Download or read book The Historical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Download or read book The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography written by Philip Alexander Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late John K  Wiggin  and the Duplicates Remaining from his Publications and Books on Sale  Chiefly Relating to America

Download or read book Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late John K Wiggin and the Duplicates Remaining from his Publications and Books on Sale Chiefly Relating to America written by John Kimball Wiggin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Book The Source

    Book Details:
  • Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs
  • Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781593312770
  • Pages : 1000 pages

Download or read book The Source written by Loretto Dennis Szucs and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""

Book Athenaeum

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1863
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 914 pages

Download or read book Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twelve Days

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  • Author : Tony Silber
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2023-07
  • ISBN : 1640125906
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Twelve Days written by Tony Silber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that followed. The twelve days that began with the federal evacuation of the fort and ended with the arrival of the New York Seventh Militia Regiment in Washington were critically important. The nation’s capital never again came so close to being captured by the Confederates. Tony Silber’s riveting account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point: both sides expected the first clash to occur there. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, less than two days away by train, the Confederates had an organized army that was much larger and ready to fight. Maryland’s eastern sections were already reeling in violent insurrection, and within days Virginia would secede. For half of the twelve days after Fort Sumter, Washington was severed from the North, the telegraph lines cut and the rail lines impassable, sabotaged by secessionist police and militia members. There was no cavalry coming. The United States had a tiny standing army at the time, most of it scattered west of the Mississippi. The federal government’s only defense would be state militias. But in state after state, the militia system was in tatters. Southern leaders urged an assault on Washington. A Confederate success in capturing Washington would have changed the course of the Civil War. It likely would have assured the secession of Maryland. It might have resulted in England’s recognition of the Confederacy. It would have demoralized the North. Fortunately, none of this happened. Instead, Lincoln emerged as the master of his cabinet, a communications genius, and a strategic giant who possessed a crystal-clear core objective and a powerful commitment to see it through. Told in real time, Twelve Days alternates between the four main scenes of action: Washington, insurrectionist Maryland, the advance of Northern troops, and the Confederate planning and military movements. Twelve Days tells for the first time the entire harrowing story of the first days of the Civil War.

Book Notes and Queries

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries

Download or read book Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of bibliographies and trans. in v. 1-12.

Book Blackwood s Magazine  1817 25  Volume 1

Download or read book Blackwood s Magazine 1817 25 Volume 1 written by Nicholas Mason and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and entertaining texts which appeared in the Blackwood's Magazine between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of Blackwood's Magazine.

Book The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Download or read book The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries written by John Austin Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perceptions of Battle

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  • Author : Jeff Dacus
  • Publisher : Brookline Books
  • Release : 2024-05-15
  • ISBN : 1955041288
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Perceptions of Battle written by Jeff Dacus and published by Brookline Books. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on the Battle of Monmouth from the first-person accounts of those who took part in the battle. After spending a difficult winter at Valley Forge, George Washington led the Continental Army in pursuit of the British Army moving from Philadelphia to New York City. On June 28, 1778, the army caught up with the British and defeated them at Monmouth Court House. The principal figure in the battle is George Washington. His planning, his orders, and his actions on the battlefield dominate the story. After the first rebuff of his advance guard under Charles Lee, it is Washington who matched each movement of the enemy with decisive actions of his own. In doing so he attained a tactical victory on the battlefield that had major strategic implications. Because of his leadership, and the actions of his army, both he and the Continental Army gained renewed respect from Congress, the American people, and the enemy. Washington’s success solidified his position as the face of the Revolutionary effort. While the Congress was often ineffectual or even nonexistent, Washington and his army became the symbol of the Revolution. Modern authors have contributed greatly to our knowledge of the battle of Monmouth but in doing so have tried to interpret or analyze it through our modern point of view, losing sight of what happened, disregarding the perceptions, opinions, and conclusions of the people who took part in the battle and its aftermath. This book is different in that it uses only first-person accounts to reach conclusions or render judgments. In addition to changing the perceptions of the victory of the Continental Army, modern historians have distorted the story further through the court martial of Charles Lee in the aftermath of the battle, giving it undue importance.

Book Plantagenet Ancestry  A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families  2nd Edition  2011

Download or read book Plantagenet Ancestry A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families 2nd Edition 2011 written by and published by Douglas Richardson. This book was released on with total page 2352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Western Antiquary

Download or read book The Western Antiquary written by William Henry Kearley Wright and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: