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The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 3 (of 3) by John Malcolm
epub |eng | 2015-09-27 | Author:John Malcolm [Malcolm, John]

"My dear Lord, "I am much obliged to you for the honour of your letter of the 24th of this month, which I received, together with the minutes of the ...
( Category: Historical February 26,2023 )
Letters from a Boy Soldier by Melinda M. M. Widgren
epub |eng | 2017-08-01 | Author:Melinda M. M. Widgren [Widgren, Melinda M. M.]

23 Oct 44 Dear Folks, Well another day has passed, Im glad of it to. I was in msg. center all after noon, I don’t like it much but it ...
( Category: Military & Wars February 26,2023 )
Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole Charles Duke Yonge
epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Horace Walpole, Charles Duke Yonge, [Horace Walpole, Charles Duke Yonge,]

NO NEWS FROM FRANCE BUT WHAT IS SMUGGLED—THE KING'S DELIGHT AT THE VOTE FOR THE HANOVER TROOPS—BON MOT OF LORD DENBIGH. TO GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ. ARLINGTON STREET, May 19, 1756. ...
( Category: Historical February 26,2023 )
Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent: A Fourteenth-Century Princess and Her World by Anthony Goodman
epub |eng | 2017-12-15 | Author:Anthony Goodman [Goodman, Anthony]

APPENDIX List of companions of the Princess of Wales received with her into the confraternity of St Alban in 1376 (Liber Benefactorum, BL, Cotton Nero D. VII, fol. 129r) Matilda ...
( Category: Great Britain February 26,2023 )
John Hunt Morgan and His Raiders by Edison H. Thomas
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Edison H. Thomas [Thomas, Edison H.]

THE CHRISTMAS RAID, 1862–1863 After “Lightning” Ellsworth had cut his key into the telegraph wire and sent messages up and down the line telling of Morgan’s plans, both real and ...
( Category: American Civil War February 26,2023 )
John Bale and Religious Conversion in Reformation England by Oliver Wort
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Oliver Wort [Wort, Oliver]

‘Speke ye to me …?’ ‘What wolde ye with me?’ ‘What is the matter?’ Though Catholicus claims to be very eager to speak with Hereticus – ‘I have ben a ...
( Category: Historical February 26,2023 )
John Bankhead Magruder by Thomas Settles
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Thomas Settles [Settles, Thomas]

Whereas the undersigned has succeeded in capturing and destroying a portion of the enemy’s fleet and in driving the remainder out of Galveston harbor and beyond the neighboring waters and ...
( Category: Army February 26,2023 )
From Workhouse to Westminster by George Haw
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:George Haw [Haw, George]

"What d'yer think?" he overheard a tradesman's wife ask another in disgust. "They've made that common fellow Crooks Mayor! And he no better than a working-man." "Quite right, madam," he ...
( Category: Historical February 24,2023 )
Frontier Fighters: On Active Serivce in Warziristan by Walter Cummings Jules Stewart
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Walter Cummings, Jules Stewart [Walter Cummings, Jules Stewart]

A day or two later it was the turn of our Scouts to construct a permanent picquet on a wooded ridge to the south of the camp and about a ...
( Category: Afghan War February 24,2023 )
A French Slave in Nazi Germany by Elie Poulard Jean V. Poulard
epub |eng | 2016-08-26 | Author:Elie Poulard, Jean V. Poulard [Elie Poulard, Jean V. Poulard]

CHAPTER 10 Life at the Boeler Heide Camp When I was reassigned to work at the Dortmund-South station in July 1944, I still lived in the Boeler Heide camp where ...
( Category: Germany February 24,2023 )
Friedrich Ebert by Harry Harmer
epub |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Harry Harmer [Harmer, Harry]

The five-strong German delegation, led by Brockdorff-Rantzau, left Berlin on 28 April, accompanied by 180 civil servants, interpreters, typists and messengers in three trains. The trains crossed the border, passing ...
( Category: Germany February 24,2023 )
From Jacks to Joysticks by Michael John Patrick
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Michael John Patrick [Patrick, Michael John]

CHAPTER TEN Airprox in a DC10 We were leaving Canada to the south of Gander and about to pick up our North Atlantic Track (NAT track) from ATC which would ...
( Category: Cold War February 24,2023 )
From Libau to Tsushima by Eugène S. Politovsky
epub |eng | 2021-09-14 | Author:Eugène S. Politovsky [Politovsky, Eugène S.]

CHAPTER VII. Events at Nosi Be February 15th.—I must without fail go on shore today after dinner to post my letters. I do not trust others. I saw a wedding ...
( Category: Navy February 24,2023 )
From She-Wolf to Martyr by Elizabeth Casteen
epub |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Elizabeth Casteen [Casteen, Elizabeth]

Chapter 4 An “Especially Good Friend” to Saints Friendship, Politics, and the Performance of Sovereignty She truly loved God and was most highly wary of herself so no one might ...
( Category: Historical February 24,2023 )
Footnotes to History by Nigel Harris
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Nigel Harris [Harris, Nigel]

OYSTER FISHERIES By 1864, although still employed at the Admiralty, he had also become a director of two oyster fishery companies, the Exe Bight Oyster Fishery Company and the Herne ...
( Category: Great Britain February 24,2023 )

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