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Railroad Depots of Northwest Ohio by Mark J. Camp
epub |eng | 2011-10-16 | Author:Mark J. Camp

These views taken in 1918 (above) and 1966 (below) show the impressive passenger depot at Findlay. The building probably dates to 1883 when it served as the southern terminus of ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
Nelson's Officers and Midshipmen by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
epub |eng | | Author:Gregory Fremont-Barnes

Boarding action led by a lieutenant of HMS Surprise, retaking HMS Hermione off Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in October 1799, two years after the crew had mutinied and handed the ship ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
Railroad Depots of Southwest Ohio by Mark J. Camp
epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Mark J. Camp

Around 1900, the N&W built a connector from Idlewild north to the B&OSW at Bond Hill and the CH&D at Ivorydale. This view shows the Bond Hill passenger depot nearing ...
( Category: Native American History August 15,2020 )
Third Down and a War to Go by Terry Frei
epub |eng | | Author:Terry Frei

The problem for Harry Stuhldreher was that the V-12 program wasn't based at the University of Wisconsin, after all. “We got a note telling us to report to the University ...
( Category: European History August 15,2020 )
Railroad Depots of Central Ohio by Mark J. Camp
epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Mark J. Camp

New Dover, originally Dover, also had a frame combination depot. Its passenger agency was closed in 1929. The Big Four had used a gasoline-powered motorcar for passengers between Delaware and ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
The Ranch on the Cariboo by Alan Fry
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Alan Fry

Mount Olie Trail Ipoked along till dark that night, then slid well into the timber out of sight of the track I followed, a side road of fair proportions which ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction August 15,2020 )
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan
epub |eng | | Author:Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan

Chapter III * In February, 1790, another matter gave the Court much uneasiness; a zealous individual of the name of Favras had conceived the scheme of carrying off the King, ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies August 15,2020 )
Goose Green 1982 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Gregory Fremont-Barnes [Fremont-Barnes, Gregory]

B Company’s position at first light: highly vulnerable and exposed. This platoon possessed no training in counter-attacking and he had no support from artillery; in any event the guns were ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
Austerlitz 1805 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Gregory Fremont-Barnes

Pratzen Heights: The First Phase 2 December 1805 0800hrs Soult’s IV Corps begins its ascent of the Pratzen Heights 0830hrs Austro-Russian troops under Miloradovich and Kollowrath begin their march toward ...
( Category: European History August 15,2020 )
Middle Passages by James T. Campbell
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:James T. Campbell

LIKE SHIPS AT SEA, Du Bois and Schuyler passed within hailing distance of one another in the 1920s and early 1930s and then proceeded on their way, bound for the ...
( Category: American History August 15,2020 )
Valley Song by Athol Fugard
epub |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Athol Fugard

VERONICA: No! I didn’t! BUKS (Ignoring her):...insulting the memory of your Ouma, if that “arme ou kleurling” hadn’t gone to the city and rescued you. Ja. You would most probably ...
( Category: Performing Arts August 15,2020 )
Abraham Lincoln by George S. McGovern
epub |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:George S. McGovern

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 14,2020 )
Skorzeny's Special Missions by Otto Skorzeny
epub |eng | | Author:Otto Skorzeny

CHAPTER X JULY, 1944, in Berlin. The military situation was continually deteriorating, as a tremendous Russian offensive in June had rolled up almost the whole of our central eastern front ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 14,2020 )
The Deserters by Charles Glass
epub |eng | 2013-05-18 | Author:Charles Glass

TWENTY-THREE The Army is organized throughout for one single purpose—fighting. Psychology for the Fighting Man, p. 325 BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER 1944, the U.S. military in the European Theater ...
( Category: American History August 14,2020 )
Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation by Unknown
epub |eng | 2016-08-14 | Author:Unknown

FIG. 3. George L. Stearns. (Boyd B. Stutler Collection, West Virginia State Archives) Using various connections to important men, Douglass managed to get an audience with Secretary of War Stanton ...
( Category: American History August 14,2020 )

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