Download or read book Warfare Loyalty and Rebellion written by Mindaugas Šapoka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the crucial period between the Russian tsar Peter the Great’s victory over Sweden at the battle of Poltava and the 1717 Silent Sejm, the Polish-Lithuanian parliament’s session which is traditionally seen as responsible for opening the way to Russian domination of Polish-Lithuanian politics. It not only challenges the accepted view of the passivity of the Lithuanian gentry and their subservience to the Russians, but also presents a clear view of how the Lithuanian economy and political system were functioning in 1710–1717, factors which have never been studied in depth in any language. Šapoka argues that much more blame for the Confederations of Vilnius and Tarnogród that had led to the Silent Sejm can be attributed to the Polish king Augustus II than is argued by the conventional scholarship. By so completely and deliberately ignoring the Commonwealth’s institutions and refusing to work within them, the Polish king provoked justified suspicion that by destroying the basis of the consensual political system, he wanted to introduce absolute monarchy.
Download or read book The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion written by John Warner Barber and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Dept and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To End All Wars written by Adam Hochschild and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before... World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?
Download or read book The War of the Rebellion written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.
Download or read book Publications written by Illinois State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War of the rebellion a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies prepared by R N Scott and others 4 ser 69 vols in 127 pt Additions and corrections dated 1902 have been inserted in the vols With Ser 1 Index to battles campaigns etc written by United States dept. of war and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pamphlets written by Loyal Publication Society and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southern Rebellion written by William August Crafts and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library Illinois State Historical Society written by Illinois State Historical Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History Civil Political and Military of the Southern Rebellion written by Orville James Victor and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Congressional Globe written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warfare in Chinese History written by Hans van de Ven and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of Chinese warfare has suffered from misconstrued contrasts between Chinese and Western ways in warfare. This is one of the arguments convincingly set forth in this important volume on an important subject. It also discusses the essentialising interpretations of Chinese culture focussing on the avoidance of warfare and the civil ethic of its officials. Based on original sources, and dealing with the subject from the earliest dynasty up to modernity, it uniquely combines chapters on strategy and tactics. Both scope and approach make it a must for historians of China. And, with a view to its conclusions on the place of China in the context of global military history, it also provides essential reading for historians of (comparative) warfare in general. The book’s primary goal – to provide a fuller interpretation of the role of the military in Chinese history – has been achieved with ease.
Download or read book Imperial Brothers written by Ian Hughs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death in battle of Julian the Apostate (363) and the short reign of his murdered successor, Jovian (364). With the Empire weakened and vulnerable to a victorious Persia in the East and opportunistic Germanic tribes along the Rhine and Danube frontiers, not to mention usurpers and rebellions within, it was not an enviable position. Valentian decided the responsibility had to be divided (not for the first or last time) and appointed his brother as his co-emperor to rule the eastern half of the Empire. ??Valentinian went on to stabilize the Western Empire, quelling revolt in North Africa, defeating the 'Barbarian Conspiracy' that attacked Britain in 367 and conducting successful wars against the Germanic Alemanni, Quadi and Saxons; he is remembered by History as a strong and successful Emperor. Valens on the other hand, fare less well and is most remembered for his (mis)treatment of the Goths who sought refuge within the Empire's borders from the westward-moving Huns. Valens mishandling of this situation led to the Battle of Adrianople in 378, where he was killed and Rome suffered one of the worst defeats in her long history, often seen as the 'beginning of the end' for the Western Roman empire. Ian Hughes, by tracing the careers of both men in tandem, compares their achievements and analyzes the extent to which they deserve the contrasting reputations handed down by history.
Download or read book Loyalty on the Frontier written by Albert Webb Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
