European History
epub |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Treasure

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Catholic Reformation The great age of souls. ON 14 MAY 1610, halted in his carriage by the congestion in a narrow Parisian street, the king was stabbed to ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless) [Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)]

VI THE HILDEBRANDINE CHURCH Modern life has travelled so far beyond medieval Christianity that it is only with an effort we retrace our steps to the intellectual position of a ...
( Category: German History August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Brayley

UNIFORMS & EQUIPMENT Between 1902 and 1939 the standard uniform of the British Army was the khaki wool Service Dress, introduced by Army Orders 10, 40 and 251 of 1902. ...
( Category: Engineering August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Patrick Coby

Simon Fish, A Supplication for the Beggars, 1529 Little is known about Simon Fish (?–1531) other than that he was a Gray’s Inn lawyer and religious radical of the 1520s. ...
( Category: European History August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-15 | Author:Damien Wright;

There was one persistent gent – evidently an officer of Dyer’s Battalion, as he was wearing khaki and a Sam Browne belt – who seemed determined to do someone in. ...
( Category: European History August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric L. Clements

CHAPTER 15 THE VERY BEST TYPE OF SAILOR MAN The year 1926 was the last that Rostron commanded Mauretania, the last that the Rostrons lived in Liverpool and the year ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-26 | Author:Paul Dickson

The Red Army was fast losing ground, as Krueger’s forces now held Lear’s headquarters, and at 3:30 p.m. Central Time, McNair declared the battle over, as the momentum of Lear’s ...
( Category: European History August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Sumner

Helmets As far as possible, French patterns were retained. A large part of the CEF, particularly the 3e DIA, was given the 1926-pattern helmet (and motorised troops the 1935 pattern ...
( Category: European History August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helmut Schneider

Soviet assault troops advancing in the summer of 1944. water. I handed her a full ladle of it. Once she had finished it she fell at my feet again, cried, ...
( Category: European History August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-14 | Author:Neil Grant & Peter Dennis

A scene from a Swiss chronicle, c.1483, shows longswords carried as sidearms by both armoured men-at-arms and unarmoured handgunners. (Burgerbibliothek Bern, Mss.h.h.I.1, p.32 – Diebold Schilling, Amtliche Berner Chronik, vol. ...
( Category: European History August 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 1987-04-30 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin [Wollstonecraft, Mary]

Letter Eighteen COPENHAGEN The distance from Elsinore to Copenhagen is twenty–two miles; the road is very good, over a flat country diversified with wood, mostly beech, and decent mansions. There ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:James Boyce

CHAPTER 10 The Foundation of Fennish Freedom In 1700 it seemed that the culture and community life based around the common marsh had been permanently protected outside the Great Level. ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Crispin Branfoot;

Figure 5.7 Page from a Ragamala series: Malkos Raga. Basohli, c. 1690. Tandan Collection. However, the attribution of the recently emerged series to Basohli is incorrect. Though both series are ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:John H. Gill

22 May: The Most Frightful Day Napoleon’s thoughts now turned to retreat and he rode to conduct a personal reconnaissance of the Lobau with a view to adjudging its suitability. ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tracy Campbell

Many Americans entertained and informed themselves through books. Two of that year’s best-selling novels were John Steinbeck’s The Moon Is Down and Lloyd Douglas’s The Robe. In November, Harvard economist ...
( Category: European History August 29,2020 )