Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-02-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Tactically speaking, Lee no doubt regretted Burnside’s departure. He would miss him, much as he missed McClellan, now in retirement, and John Pope and Joe Hooker, who had been shunted ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1986-12-15 | Author:Shelby Foote

Neither was their presence in the orchard covered by any instructions from their own commander. In fact, at the time Hood’s men first spotted them, Meade did not even know ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Mark Essig

CHAPTER 15 The Unmasking of Harold Brown ON AUGUST 25, just a few weeks after the hearings ended, the New York Sun published stunning revelations regarding Edison's interest in the ...
( Category: Electricity March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Jonathan D. Sarna

Sneersohn knew how to attract attention to his cause. Rather than dressing in traditional East European Hasidic clothing (which might have been exotic enough), he always appeared in public looking ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Sally Jenkins; John Stauffer

From representations made to us we had expect[ed] to find [irregular] organizations among the disloyal for the purpose of resisting our authority. During the first five days operations we obtained ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Thomas Powers

During his first weeks at the Red Cloud Agency it was evident that Crazy Horse had determined on peace. He had one overriding goal: to secure an agency in the ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:George C. Daughan

ON DECEMBER 30, 1813, His Majesty’s packet Bramble, under Lieutenant Pogson, arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, from Plymouth, England, with the momentous news: Napoleon had suffered a near fatal blow at ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2009-12-21 | Author:Steve Coll

BY THE AUTUMN OF 1997 persistent lobbying against the Taliban by the Feminist Majority had influenced the two most important women in the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton. ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-08 | Author:Madison Smartt Bell

In France, the spring 1797 elections had brought a royalist majority to power. In the new National Assembly the dispossessed land and slave owners of Saint Domingue found a vigorous ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:David Cordingly

9 Welcome to Nassau At 4 p.m. on 25 July 1718 the lookouts on HMS Rose sighted the eastern end of the island of New Providence. Captain Whitney had been ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-02 | Author:Winters, Eden [Winters, Eden]

Chapter Three Ferris stared into the slick water of Pearl Harbor, the sharp bite of oil filling his nose. Down beneath him, in a watery grave, lay the USS Arizona. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Brian Lamb; C-Span

Teddy Roosevelt’s own words on a plaque near his grave Returning to the United States in 1910, Roosevelt became convinced that President Taft had shifted too far to the right. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Susan Richards

TICKET TO THE END OF THE EARTH This morning I finally heard from Vera. As soon as I reached Novosibirsk, I sent her a telegram. I had not rated my ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )