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21st Century Courage by Mark Felton
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Mark Felton [Felton, Mark]

1 ‘Officer ‘should get George Cross’, BBC News, 16 April 2005 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid. 4 Ibid. 5 ‘Hero cop honoured – at last’ by John Scheerhout, Manchester Evening News, ...
( Category: New England August 24,2022 )
1948 and 1968 – Dramatic Milestones in Czech and Slovak History by Laura Cashman
epub |eng | 2013-09-13 | Author:Laura Cashman [Cashman, Laura]

The era of optimism The foundations for advancements in the natural sciences in the 1960s had already been prepared from the 1950s onwards. For many contemporaries, communism as the ‘scientific ...
( Category: History August 24,2022 )
Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself by Edward Costello
epub |eng | 2021-06-18 | Author:Edward Costello [Costello, Edward]

CHAPTER XVIII. Head-quarters at Grenalda—Don Julian Sanchez, the celebrated Guerilla Chief—Weakness of our numbers—Incorporation of Spaniards into our regiments—A thief—Punishment of, and opinion of the men—General orders for a collection ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars August 24,2022 )
The Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper by Zenas Leonard Joseph Meek
epub |eng | 2018-03-21 | Author:Zenas Leonard, Joseph Meek [Zenas Leonard, Joseph Meek]

Although they exhibit a great degree of dexterity in taking these wild beasts, their mode of killing them is far different. — When they want to butcher their beef they ...
( Category: Native American August 24,2022 )
Adventures in Swaziland by Owen Rowe O'Neil
epub |eng | 2019-03-08 | Author:Owen Rowe O'Neil [O'Neil, Owen Rowe]

LOMWAZI AND HIS COUNCIL OF INDUNAS, OR WAR CHIEFS LOMWAZI AND HIS COUNCIL OF INDUNAS, OR WAR CHIEFS All this impressed Labotsibeni, but she insisted that the "great white witch-doctor" ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies August 24,2022 )
The 1849 Cholera Outbreak in Jefferson City by Gary Elliott
epub |eng | 2021-01-25 | Author:Gary Elliott [Elliott, Gary]

It had been said that men from all walks of life helped with caring for the cholera victims. In 1849, Thomas Lawson Price was elected the eighth lieutenant governor of ...
( Category: Health Recovery August 24,2022 )
Aerial Propaganda and the Wartime Occupation of France, 1914-18 by Bernard Wilkin
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Bernard Wilkin [Wilkin, Bernard]

General Philippe Pétain, recently appointed commander of the north and north-east armies, examined this note before advising the government.49 Pétain underlined that the Germans distributed the Gazette des Ardennes by ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2022 )
Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer; Or, A Drummer Boy from Maine by George T. Ulmer
epub |eng | 2015-02-12 | Author:George T. Ulmer [Ulmer, George T.]

My First Day in Front of Petersburg. One night the Johnnies made a charge on us. That was the only time I ever fired a gun in the whole war, ...
( Category: History August 24,2022 )
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands by J. (John) Kincaid
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:J. (John) Kincaid [Kincaid, J.]

CHAP. XII. Reach Salamanca. Retreat from it. Pig Hunting, an Enemy to Sleep-Hunting. Putting one's Foot in it. Affair on the 17th of November. Bad Legs sometimes last longer than ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars August 24,2022 )
1956 Suez Crisis And The United Nations by Major Jean-Marc Pierre
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Major Jean-Marc Pierre [Pierre, Major Jean-Marc]

American Strategic Interests President Dwight D. Eisenhower had other worries by 1956. In 1952, the former General had run for president as an anti-war candidate. The US had borne a ...
( Category: Special Forces August 24,2022 )
According to their Lights by Neil Richardson
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Neil Richardson [Richardson, Neil]

Major Albert Clerke from Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, later a lieutenant-colonel (Mr & Mrs Robert William Boyles) Albert Clerke, a native of Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, survived both the Easter Rising and ...
( Category: Europe August 24,2022 )
An Academy at the Court of the Tsars by Nikolaos Chrissidis
epub |eng | 2016-08-10 | Author:Nikolaos Chrissidis [Chrissidis, Nikolaos]

CONCLUSION Education, Westernization, and Secularization in Early Modern Russia Reflecting the dominant historiographical view, A. Iu. Andreev recently concluded that there was no continuity (preemvstvennost’) between the Leichoudian period of ...
( Category: 17th Century August 24,2022 )
Account of a Voyage of Discovery by Basil Hall
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Basil Hall [Hall, Basil]

The Chinese characters on the drinking-cup were thus translated in China, "Tywack hoo[17], inspired by a jar of wine, writes an hundred pages of odes or verses without end. At ...
( Category: Asia August 24,2022 )
An Account of the Harbour and Docks at Kingston-upon-Hull by John Timperley
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:John Timperley [Timperley, John]

p.27 The timber in the foundations, which was all fir, was, with the exception of the sap, invariably as sound and good as when first put down ; the oak ...
( Category: History August 24,2022 )
Adoption and Fosterage Practices in the Late Medieval and Modern Age by Maria Clara Rossi Marina Garbellotti
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Maria Clara Rossi, Marina Garbellotti [Maria Clara Rossi, Marina Garbellotti]

Giuliana Albini From Abandonment to Fosterage: Stories of Children in Late Fifteenth Century Milan Simone, Giacomina, Margherita, Ambrogina, Pietro, Leonardo, Giovanni, Agnesina, Ludovica… these and many others are the names ...
( Category: Medieval August 24,2022 )

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