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 Architectural Temperance - Spain and Rome, 1700-1759 
 Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759 Routledge; 1 edition Routledge Research in Architecture Author:Victor Deupi October 9, 2014 Pages:232 Language:English Format: pdf Size:7,7 Mb Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on key Spanish architects sent to study in Rome by the Bourbon Kings, the book also discusses the establishment of a program of architectural education at the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Victor Deupi explores why a powerful nation like Spain would temper its own building traditions with the more cosmopolitan trends associated with Rome; often at the expense of its own national and regional traditions. Through the inclusion of previously unpublished documents and images that shed light on the theoretical debates which shaped eighteenth-century architecture in Rome and Madrid, Architectural Temperance provides readers with new insights into the cultural history of early modern Spain
A Short History of the American Revolution
 Author: James L. Stokesbury A Short History of the American Revolution Quill 1993 Format: PDF Pages: 308 Language: English Size: 33.7 MB The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence. Offering a spirited chronicle of the war itself -- the campaigns and strategies, the leaders on both sides, the problems of fielding and sustaining an army, and of maintaining morale -- Stokesbury also brings the reader to the Peace of Paris in 1783 and into the militarily exhausted, financially ruined yet victorious United States as it emerged to create a workable national system.
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
 Author: Hugh Thomas Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan Random House Trade Paperbacs 2004 ISBN: 0375502041 Format: EPUB Size: 18,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 720 From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind.
The Way of the Warrior
 The Way of the Warrior Author:Editors of :Time-Life Books Cahners Business Information, Inc THE AMERICAM INDIANS 1993 Language:English Format:pdf Size:36 mb Pages:184 To the American Indian, there were but two paths to honor: as a shaman, or healer, and as a warrior. 'The Way of the Warrior' will take you far beyond the stereotypes of cowboy-and-Indian lore to a deeper understanding of the warrior ethic in Native American societies.
Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812
 Author: John R. Elting Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812 Algonquin Books ISBN: 0945575084 1991 Format: PDF Size: 11,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 353 Begun in ignorance of the military facts of life, fought with raw troops, mostly incompetent officers, and inadequate logistics, the War of 1812 was a near disaster for the fledgling United States. This new volune in Algonquin's Major Battles and Campaigns series tells how our country's most unmilitary war was fought and almost lost. 12 pages of illustrations. 16 maps.
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art
 Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art Author: Collective Charles Miller Ltd. Cataloge 2010 Pages: 140 Language: English Format: PDF (E-Book) Size: 6 МВ
The First Americans
 The First Americans Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books Author: Time-Life Books 1992 Pages:183 Language:English Format: pdf Size:27,6 Mb History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts.
A History of War and Weapons, 1660 to 1918
 Author: G. A. Shepperd A History of War and Weapons, 1660 to 1918 Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1972 Format: PDF Pages: 232 Language: English Size: 20 MB Featuring 170 exceptionally handsome and authentically detailed line drawings, this book focuses on the ordinary soldier in the ranks and the weapons he has used through the centuries. The author shows how new inventions in weaponry have influenced the tactics of their day and helped to determine the course of world history. Alongside descriptions of weapons of all kinds, from bayonet, saber, and musket to machine gun, tank, and Zeppelin, are accounts of great commanders, how they trained their Loops, and the key battles they fought.
War in European History
 Author: Michael Howard War in European History Oxford University Press 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 180 Language: English Size: 16 MB Wars have often determined the character of society. Society in exchange has determined the character of wars. This is the theme of Michael Howard's stimulating book. It is written with all his usual skill and in its small compass is perhaps the most original book he has written. Though he surveys a thousand years of history, he does so without sinking in a slough of facts and draws a broad outline of developments which will delight the general reader.
Gettysburg - The Confederate High Tide
 Author: Champ Clark Gettysburg - The Confederate High Tide (The Civil War Series) Time Life Books 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 29.5 MB Time-Life's Civil War series devotes an entire volume to the Battle of Gettysburg, a topic which many books have been written either in part or on one aspect of the fight. In this case they have done a great job of concentrating on this one campaign which culminated in the so-called "high tide of the Confederacy."
Napoleog's Cuirassiers and Carabiniers
 Author: Emir Bukhari Napoleog's Cuirassiers and Carabiniers (Men-at-arms 64) Osprey Publishing Ltd 1977 Format: Pdf Size: 18 Mb Language: English
Encyclopedia of American History
 Encyclopedia of American History (11 volume set) Author: Mancall Facts on File 2010 Pages: 5195 Format: PDF Language: English
Hofkleiderbuch des Herzogs Wilhelm IV. und Albrecht V. 1508-1551
 Hofkleiderbuch des Herzogs Wilhelm IV. und Albrecht V. 1508-1551 Munich, Bavaria 1599 Language:German Format:pdf Size:61 mb Pages:304
The Tudors
 Author: Richard Rex The Tudors Amberley Publishing 2009 Format: PDF Pages: 276 Language: English Size: 26.2 MB An intimate history of England's most infamous royal family. The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with 2000 men at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III. For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the five Tudor monarchs, ranging from the brilliance and brutality of Henry VIII to the shrewdness and vanity of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I.
The Pendulum of War: The Fight for Upper Canada, January-June 1813
 The Pendulum of War: The Fight for Upper Canada, January-June 1813 Author: Richard Feltoe Dundurn 2013 ISBN: 1459706994 Pages: 160 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 16 MB In his second of six books in the series Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812, author Richard Feltoe continues a battlefield chronicle that combines the best of modern historical research with extensive quotes from original official documents and personal letters, bringing to life the crucial first six months of the 1813 American campaign to invade and conquer Upper Canada. The Pendulum of War documents the course of more than seven major battles and over a dozen minor engagements that were fought on the St. Lawrence, Niagara, and Detroit frontiers to control Upper Canada during this period. It also reveals some of the behind-the-scenes personal stories and conflicts of the personalities involved. Throughout the work, historical images are counterpointed with modern pictures taken from the same perspective to give a true then-and-now effect. Strategic maps trace the course of the campaign, while never-before-published battlefield maps reveal the shifting formations of troops across a geographically accurate terrain.
Christopher Columbus - Explorer of the New World
 Christopher Columbus - Explorer of the New World Author: Peter Chrisp Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2001 ISBN: 0751313882 Format: PDF Size: 11,7 MB Language: English Pages: 48 Packed with first-hand accounts, this book is an eyewitness guide to Columbus's voyages of explorations. Photography, story-telling, pull-out details and a gatefold panorama bring his journeys to life.
The Coast Guard Along the North Atlantic Coast
 Author: Dr. Dennis Noble, Kenneth Arbogast The Coast Guard Along the North Atlantic Coast Coast Guard Historian's Office 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 28 Language: English Size: 22.4 MB From the craggy coast of Maine, to New Jersey’s sandy beaches, the Atlantic coast is speckled with legends, like sea shells. Legends told by sailors and flatlanders alike, of wonderful sailing ships, fierce blizzards and terrible wrecks; legends that are the lore and lure of the sea. Storytellers still recount the adventures of the surfmen who braved the gale to rescue to the victims of shipwrecks, or the lonely vigil of the lighthouse keeper. The Revenue Cutters first sailed from New England ports, and their battles against smugglers and pirates are epic. The first lighthouse in the country was built in Boston, and the first ship of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Services, the Massachusetts, was built in Newburyport, Mass. The federal government built a series of huts along the New Jersey coast to shelter shipwrecked mariners, and the U.S. Life-Saving Service performed its first rescue there in 1850. Those three agencies; the Lighthouse Service, the Life-Saving Service and the revenue Cutter Service were later joined, so in truth, the history of the U.S. Coast Guard began on shores of the North Atlantic.
Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark
 Author: George Forty Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark Pen and Sword Battleground Europe 2002 Format: EPUB Pages: 192 Size: 49 Mb Language: English The book follows in photographs, captions and text the German Army's presence in Flanders from its arrival in September 1914 until the summer of 1916.It looks at the Kaiser's Army's battles with the French, Belgians and British, concentrating mostly on the latter and the battles for Ypres (1st Ypres - 1914 and 2nd Ypres - 1915 and the gas attacks). The book is arranged in four sections; detailed text; around 50.000 photos (that are interspersed into the text with captions); a chronological order of events in Flanders and a section on the German divisions that fought there. Where relevant material from the German home front is included.Each phase and aspect of the period is described from the German point of view using primary and secondary sources from both Germany and Britain.
Omdurman 1898 (Battle Story)
Author: William Wright
Omdurman 1898 (Battle Story)
Spellmount
2012
Format: EPUB
Pages: 159
Size: 6 Mb
Language: English
The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian solders. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British and Egyptian cavalry was placed on either flank. Al-Taashi's followers, known as Ansar and sometimes referred to as Dervishes, numbered around 50,000, including some 3,000 cavalry. In a few hours and at a loss of less than 400 officers and men killed and wounded, the Anglo-Egyptian army defeated the more than 50,000 brave tribesmen who charged their enemy, regardless of the hail of maxim bullets, many of them armed only with spears, swords and ancient chainmail armour.
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