Australia & Oceania
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Gapps

6 KILL ALL THE WHITES BEFORE THEM 1814–March 1816 A spirit of hostility When Lachlan Macquarie arrived in the colony, in late 1809, he instigated important shifts not only in ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-22 | Author:Peter Pedersen & Chris Roberts

Sergeant McGee’s attack on Hamburg. Return to the car park, from which you can commence the Passchendaele battlefield tour by turning left at the entrance and going to the top ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-09 | Author:Phillip Bradley

Lines of light horsemen manoeuvre for the attack on Beersheba. The attack was ‘clearly seen by other brigades at the start,’ Henry Gullett was later told, ‘but soon obscured in ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Mesut Uyar

A cavalry patrol resting somewhere near Saros. The northern region was covered by the 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade for an extensive period of time (image courtesy of Nejat Çuhadaroğlu). In ...
( Category: Military December 9,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-11-16 | Author:Anne Salmond

PLATE 1 Marsden’s mill and cottage, Parramatta, NSW by J. Lycett, 1820. PLATE 2 The missionary settlement Rangihoua on the north side of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, by ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania November 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Hirst [John Hirst]

The Pioneer Legend Schools have been the most influential purveyors of the pioneer legend and in literature for children it occurs in its purest form. The first item in the ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources October 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Kemp [Kemp, David]

Transportation: revival or cessation? The British policy that aroused radical democratic organisation in New South Wales, reignited the calls for political independence that had been briefly voiced at the time ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-04 | Author:Gregory Rosenthal [Rosenthal, Gregory]

ON THE FARM Sometime between 1868 and 1870, Henry Nahoa left Sacramento to reside in a boardinghouse in the rural town of Vernon, Sutter County, about twenty-five miles north of ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Michael Tyquin [Tyquin, Michael]

Chapter 4 OPERATIONS IN THE SUDAN: THE NILE EXPEDITION, 1885 The Mahdi now controlled a vast area from Daru in the west to the Red Sea, and to Gondoroko in ...
( Category: Africa September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:James Cook

This war club, now at Cambridge, was among the objects received by Cook and his companions in barter at Malakula. About nine o’clock, we put off in two boats, and ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nino Bucci

That September was the driest month in the region for almost two and a half years, with less than four millimetres of rain falling. It was the driest September for ...
( Category: True Crime September 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-29 | Author:Stevan Eldred-Grigg [Stevan Eldred-Grigg]

Andrew Bools found such a tract in his tent one day. He was struck by what he called ‘unutterable anguish’. His sins ‘stood out in dread array’. He fell to ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania August 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:John Dos Passos [Passos, John Dos]

The great statues. Tonight I shan’t forget them the way I did this morning. My siesta over and done with I asked the first person I saw who was Atamou ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-25 | Author:Peter Thompson

That Saturday, while Freyberg was inspecting his troops, Student briefed his regimental and battalion commanders in the Grande Bretagne’s ‘hermetically sealed and shuttered’ ballroom, where a huge map of Crete ...
( Category: Military July 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:James Belich [Belich, James]

Most of the fighting on the East Coast occurred between June 1865 and October 1866. It is sometimes known as the East Coast War, but was in fact a complicated ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania July 26,2018 )