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 Point Pleasant 1774 
 Author: John F. Winkler Point Pleasant 1774: Prelude to the American Revolution Osprey Publishing Osprey Campaign 273 ISBN: 1472805097 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 98 Size: 12 Mb Language: English The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore’s War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. Following increased tensions and a series of incidents between the American settlers and the natives, Dunmore, the last colonial governor of Virginia, and Colonel Andrew Lewis led two armies against the tribes. On October 10, 1774 Lewis and his men resisted a fierce attack, led by Shawnee chief Keigh-tugh-qua, or Cornstalk, at Point Pleasant, near the mouth of the Kanawha river. Despite significant losses on both sides, Lewis succeeded in forcing the Shawnee to retreat back to their settlements in the Scioto Valley.
The Struggle for Tennessee - Tupelo to Stones River
 Author: James H. Street The Struggle for Tennessee - Tupelo to Stones River (The Civil War Series) Time Life Books 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 34.4 MB This book looks at the 1862 (and early 1863) fighting in the West. By now the Union has control of Nashville and has actually made inroads into Alabama and Mississippi. However, poor Federal leadership under Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell has resulted in the initiative going over to the Confederates and a poorly-coordinated offensive by two separate armies under Kirby Smith and Braxton Bragg initially succeed in capturing Kentucky's capital at Frankfort and threatening Louisville and Cincinnati. The Battle of Perryville and a hard march back into Tennessee resulted in depleted Confederate forces but Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans, now in command of the Army of the Cumberland, gives them time to regroup before he ends of fighting Bragg at the Battle of Stones River, southeast of Nashville.
The Aristocracy in Europe 1815-1914
 Author: Dominic C.B. Lieven The Aristocracy in Europe 1815-1914 Columbia University Press 1993 Format: PDF Pages: 308 Size: 221 Mb Language: English The book surveys the wealth, economic activities, manners and morals, everyday life, culture, values, occupations and political roles of aristocracy in Europe's three most powerful monarchies. The enobled upper class in the 19th century viewed the Industrial Revolution and (in Britain) the expansion of the franchise in quite a different light from the middle classes. To them, increased educational and occupational opportunities were an economic and social threat to their power and right to rule. This book investigates their "strategies" and the ways they responded to the danger. What Lieven finds, not surprisingly, is that each national group responded in its own way to the challenge from the lower classes in its own country.
The American Story - Settling the West
 Author: Collective The American Story - Settling the West Time-Life Books 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 198 Language: English Size: 42.7 MB Covering the period of westward expansion, from 1860 to 1900, an extensively illustrated history describes the settlers, miners, and others who ventured west to seek new lives, capturing the cowboys, gold-seekers, lawmen, outlaws, railroad builders, and others who transformed the American frontier.
The Turks in Egypt and their Cultural Legacy
 Author: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu The Turks in Egypt and their Cultural Legacy The American University in Cairo Press 2012 Format: PDF Size: 17 Mb Language: English Though Egypt was ruled by Turkish-speakers through most of the period from the ninth century until 1952, the impact of Turkish culture there remains under-studied. This book deals with the period from 1805 to 1952, during which Turkish cultural patterns, spread through reforms based on those of Istanbul, may have touched more Egyptians than ever before. An examination of the books, newspapers, and other written materials produced in Turkish, including translations, and of the presses involved, reveals the rise and decline of Turkish culture in government, the military, education, literature, music, and everyday life. The author also describes the upsurge in Turkish writing generated by Young Turk exiles from 1895 to 1909.
The Apache Wars. The final resistance.
 Author: Joseph C.Jastrzembski The Apache Wars. The final resistance. Chelsea House Publisher 2007 Format: Pdf Size: 37 Mb Language: English
Making America: A History of the United States, Volume 1: To 1877
 Author: Carol Berkin Making America: A History of the United States, Volume 1: To 1877 Cengage Learning 2010 Pages: 464 Format: pdf Language : English Size: 20 mb Quality: Good Making America: A History of the United States, presents history as a dynamic process shaped by human expectations, difficult choices, and often the surprising consequences. With this focus on history as a process, MAKING AMERICA encourages students to think historically and to develop into citizens who value the past. The clear chronology, straightforward narrative, and strong thematic structure emphasize communication over intimidation, and appeal to students of varied learning levels. The Brief Fifth Edition retains a hallmark feature of the MAKING AMERICA program: pedagogical tools that allow students to master complex material and enable them to develop analytical skills. Every chapter has chapter outlines, chronologies, focus questions, and in-text glossaries to provide guidance throughout the text. A new feature called Investigating America gets to the heart of learning history: reading and analyzing primary sources. The text's new open, inviting design allows students to access and use pedagogy to improve learning.
Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam
 Author: Benjamin Franklin Cooling Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam University of Nebraska Press 2008 ISBN: 0803215150 Format: PDF Size: 12,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 385 During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union’s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Benjamin Franklin Cooling tells this story in Counter-Thrust, recounting in harrowing detail Robert E. Lee’s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan’s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describing the Confederate hero’s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac.
The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700
 The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 Routledge Author: Deborah Simonton 2006 Pages: 416 Format: PDF Size: 2 mb Language: English The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of woman's role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century. In this collection of essays, leading women's historians counter the notion of national' histories and provide the insight and perspective of a European approach. Important intellectual, political and economic developments have not respected national boundaries, nor has the story of women's past, or the interplay of gender and culture. The interaction between women, ideology and female agency, the way women engaged with patriarchal and gendered structures and systems, and the way women carved out their identities and spaces within these, informs the writing in this book. For any student of women's studies or European history, The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 will prove an informative addition to their studies.
The Complete Blue Max: A Chronological Record of the Holder Military Order
 Author: Kevin Brazier The Complete Blue Max: A Chronological Record of the Holder Military Order Pen & Sword 2013 Format: ePub (e-book) Pages: 171 Language: English Size: 5 MB Hermann Göring, Erwin Rommel, Manfred von Richthofen, Paul von Hindenburg, Helmuth von Moltke, Ernst Junger, Max Immelmann – they were among the most famous individuals to be awarded the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order, the Pour le Mérite, better known as the 'Blue Max'. Up until the end of the Great War the Blue Max was the most prestigious accolade a German serviceman could wish for. Yet fictions and myths about the Blue Max have obscured its long and fascinating history. Kevin Brazier, in this comprehensive account of the Pour le Mérite and of the men who received it, aims to set the record straight, and he provides a comprehensive listing of the men who were given this high honour.
The Coast Guard and the Pacific War
 Author: Collective The Coast Guard and the Pacific War Coast Guard Historian's Office 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 24 Language: English Size: 48 MB On September 27 1942, a group of diminutive landing craft sped to ward the beaches of Guadalcanal. Huddled on shore, and fighting for their live s, were about 500 men of COL Lewis B. "Chesty Puller's 1st Battalion 7th marines...
Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes
 Author: Christopher Hibbert Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes W.W. Norton & Company 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 424 Language: English Size: 63.8 MB The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent—a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts, Redcoats and Rebels presents a vivid and convincing picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever.
Napoleon's Hussars
 Author: Emir Bukhari Napoleon's Hussars (Men-at-Arms 76) Osprey Publishing Ltd 1978 Format: Pdf Size: 17 Mb Language: English
The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568-1668 )
 Author: R. A. Stradling The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568-1668 ) Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521525128 2003 Format: PDF Size: 8,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 268 The Flanders armada, took shape in response to the use of seapower by the Dutch rebels, and evolved into the most effective unit in Spain's defence establishment. In combination with its privateering auxiliaries, this elite striking force dominated the North Sea for some twenty years (1625-45), and campaigned also in the Mediterranean and Atlantic theatres of war. Yet its contribution to the tenacious survival of Spanish hegemony has never before been assessed. A narrative of the armada's fighting record over the century of its meaningful existence is presented with constant reference to the strategic-logistical context and analysis of policymaking in Madrid. Attention is paid to the political significance of maritime policy, and particularly the relationship between Madrid and its subordinate headquarters in Brussels; the infrastructure of the armada; the ships themselves, above all the revolutionary but elusive 'frigate'; the social hierarchy of crews and commanders; and details of administration and financing.
The Age of Nelson. The Royal Navy in the Age of Its Greatest Power and Glory, 1793-1815
 Author: G. J. Marcus The Age of Nelson. The Royal Navy in the Age of Its Greatest Power and Glory, 1793-1815 The Viking Press, Inc. 1971 Format: PDF Pages: 582 Language: English Size: 71 MB Fertile as inspiration for fiction from Billy Budd to the Hornblower series, its history as related in detail by G.J.Marcus' The Age of Nelson is as exciting as any novel. Marcus concentrates on naval action but does not neglect either the human component or the broader canvas of social history. . . . Behind it all, we see the deeper forces at work: men through discipline and skill grappling with the mindless sea and weather, a contention more primal in some ways than war itself.
Time Frame AD 1600-1700 - Powers of the Crown
 Author: Collective Time Frame AD 1600-1700 - Powers of the Crown Time-Life Books 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 23.8 MB Table of Contents - Tokugawa Japan - China's Manchu overlords - The great shah of Persia - Civil war in England - The rise of the Dutch Republic - Newcomers to the New World.
Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times
 Author: David Rubel Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times Scholastic Inc. 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 228 Language: English Size: 48.4 MB In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. More than forty others have followed him. The ninth president, William Henry Harrison, served less than a month. Franklin Roosevelt, the thirty-second president, served for twelve years. During Roosevelt's term, which spanned the Great Depression and World War II, the country changed a great deal. But the same can be said for almost any president. Each president's term in office is usually shaped by important events both inside and and outside the United States.
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