epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:9781451603996

CHAPTER TEN “No Sooner Seen Than Lost” JONES HAD NO TIME to brood. At least eight Royal Navy warships, dispatched by a frantic Admiralty, were converging on Flamborough Head. The ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-11 | Author:Candlewick Press

By the time we reached Saigon, my mother was running out of money, we were all ill, and we were all living on my Cow & Gate baby food — ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Nico Medina

Chapter 6 Landing the Big Jobs Ten years after being elected pontifex, Caesar ran for pontifex maximus—the highest priesthood in Rome. He was up against two older and more experienced ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Frederick Douglass

II. THE CIVIL WAR How to End the War TO OUR mind, there is but one easy, short and effectual way to suppress and put down the desolating war which ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eleanor H. Ayer

CHAPTER 15 * * * THE CHRISTMAS EVE AIR ATTACK We didn’t know it then, but our meeting with the Führer was his last before he launched Germany’s final, all-out ...

epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Jan Adkins

In 1757, there was a war going on at the frontiers of the colonies. The British ruled the colonies of the seacoast—from Massachusetts (which then included Maine) in the north ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-10-11 | Author:Matthew Olshan

Never had land looked so beautiful. A great crowd was there to welcome them. “Look, Henry! We made it to France,” said Jeffries. “We’re home, Henri!” said Blanchard. But the ...

epub |eng | 2007-09-14 | Author:Norgren, Jill;

12 Lay Down Your Arms! War must be stripped of its gaudy attire, its so-called greatness and glory. Universal Peace Union, 1886 Lockwood’s scrappy defense of the Mormons stood in ...

epub |eng | 2002-02-17 | Author:Dennis Brindell Fradin [Fradin, Dennis Brindell]

Ben’s ideas about health were very modern. At the time, people thought that strange vapors in the air caused illness. Although germs weren’t yet known, Franklin said that many diseases ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:DK Publishing [Publishing, DK]

Acquiescence to the man-made institution of the state would also enslave people. The laws of nature unavoidably constrain what men can do, but Bakunin claimed that once these laws were ...

epub |eng | | Author:Karen Magnuson Beil

Herbarium specimen sheet from the Natural History Museum, London. Linnaeus named this umbellate plant Artedia squamata for his late friend Peter Artedi. INNOVATIONS IN PAPER TECHNOLOGY Linnaeus had to sort ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CROSSING THE MARSHES Still, Hannibal concluded to cross it, and, in the attempt, he involved his army in difficulties and dangers as great, almost, as he had encountered upon the ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-13 | Author:Tappan, Eva March [Tappan, Eva March]

STILL SWEPT OVER THEM THE TERRIBLE STORM OF ARROWS Part of the army, led by the king himself, formed a wedge, and worked through to safety from immediate attack. They ...

epub | | | Author:William C. Davis

epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Kathleen Krull [Krull, Kathleen]

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, to the surprise of those who lacked a sense of humor. In Washington, D.C., he often spent the days receiving visitors in his ...