Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2016-01-16 | Author:Harold Wheeler [Wheeler, Harold]

* * * CHAPTER XIV The Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1811–12) “The great object in all sieges is to gain time.” Wellington. The exacting nature of the campaign was beginning ...
( Category: Europe March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-24 | Author:Jane (Trill) van Gelder [Gelder, Jane van]

CHAPTER IX. GRANARIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. The storehouses or granaries now in use in Mexico, Peru, and other empires, are not the Pyramids which were built and used in ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-24 | Author:Hamil Grant [Grant, Hamil]

Frederick the Great It would be the height of folly, if a monarch's attention was diverted by trifles of religion which are fit only for the common people. Besides, the ...
( Category: Espionage March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:David I. Durham [Durham, David I.]

First. Does the imperial government approve in general of the antislavery propaganda, and especially that which has been held in public meetings by means of political banquets, and a manifesto ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Sir James Rennell Rodd K.C.B. [K.C.B., Sir James Rennell Rodd]

CHAPTER IX — ROME, 1914 The Serajevo assassinations and the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. Efforts to avert war. Italy declares her neutrality. We enter the war. News of Goeben and ...
( Category: World War I March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-28 | Author:Timothy May [May, Timothy]

Chapter 6 Family Matters As the saying goes, you can pick your friends, but you cannot pick your family. This chapter explores Chinggis Khan’s relationship with his family members in ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:William Dobein James [James, William Dobein]

* * * Detached Narratives for 1781. There was with Marion's brigade throughout, a young man, Robert, commonly called Bob James, but oftener, the general's right hand man. It was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden [Hobart-Hampden, Augustus Charles]

* * * CHAPTER XIV. LAST DAYS ON THE 'D——N.' As no vessel had succeeded since the blockade was established in getting into Savannah (a large and flourishing town in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2003-09-19 | Author:M. R. D. Foot [Foot, M. R. D.]

5 Victor Gerson Haim Victor Gerson was born at Southport in Lancashire in 1896, the son of a Levantine textile merchant who thought Lancashire a good base for his work. ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:John Newton [Newton, John]

3. I arrive at Africa and become a slave of slaves. After many trials and much suffering I am rescued. Letter V Dear Sir, In the following two years, of ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Kyle Longley [Longley, Kyle]

7 IN THE MIDST OF THE GREAT SOCIETY AND BEYOND DISILLUSIONMENT AND DESPAIR enveloped the country following Kennedy’s assassination. Like so many of his countrymen, a distraught Gore worried about ...
( Category: South March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-12 | Author:Tracy Campbell [Campbell, Tracy]

10 Ashland In the fall of 1949, Ed Prichard lived on borrowed time. His attorneys continued to piece together his appeal, while his personal and financial affairs came unglued. Prichard ...
( Category: United States March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Andrea Lynn [Lynn, Andrea]

( Category: Authors March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-19 | Author:Roy Fullick [Fullick, Roy]

Chapter Eight THE STRANGER The story of Shan’s extended period of convalescence and rehabilitation while being sheltered for four months over the autumn and winter of 1944/45 by a courageous ...
( Category: Africa March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth, James Mark [Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth, James Mark]

Conclusion: Individual Strategies, Competing Loyalties and the Legitimacy of the System Teachers at the Faculty struggled for at least minimal autonomy, struggled to continue in their profession (in which they ...
( Category: Espionage March 6,2023 )