epub |eng | 2023-02-15 | Author:Judith Pearson & John Rodgaard [Judith Pearson & John Rodgaard]

William Smellie’s forceps. Before Smellie, the use of forceps was a guarded secret. (Wikimedia Commons) Yet there was progress in naval healthcare during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and ...

epub |eng | 2024-03-07 | Author:Judith Pearson & John Rodgaard [Pearson, Judith & Rodgaard, John]

Crippled but unconquered, HMS Belleisle at Trafalgar 1805, by William Lionel Willie (1851–1931). Belleisle had to fight against seven enemy ships and lost her rigging early on. She fought for ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-20 | Author:McBurney, Christian;

1 John Mercer Testimony, Lee Court-Martial, in Lee Papers, vol. 3, 104 (Grayson’s brigades ordered to serve in this role); Evan Edwards Testimony, in ibid, 161 (Dickinson’s militia ordered to ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:A. Cooper [Cooper, A.]

* * * CHAPTER XVIII. Table of Contents in prison again. We arrived at the house of Captain Sanderson about ten o’clock that night, and were treated by him like ...

epub |eng | 2021-05-21 | Author:Norman Desmarais [Desmarais, Norman]

Camp at Williamsburg They came to camp at Williamsburg on the 23rd at which time our generals returned from the Ville de Paris. They were 8 miles from Williamsburg at ...