epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Dyke Hendrickson [Hendrickson, Dyke]

The four-masted Harvester at the dock. Newburyport Archival Center of the Newburyport Public Library. We went to Valparaiso. The captain wouldn’t give us boys any money, but the ship’s carpenter, ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Patrick S. Mesmer, Patricia A. Mesmer [Patrick S. Mesmer, Patricia A. Mesmer]

6 Smuggling on the Treasure Coast, 1845–65 In the mid-1800s, the east coast of Florida was an empty and formidable place. The Indians who had lived there for thousands of ...

pdf | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

epub |eng | 2022-04-27 | Author:Eric Jay Dolin

Despair was not the only, or even the primary, British response, however. Initially shocked by the courageousness, resolve, and success of America’s privateers, Britain soon began fighting back, using its ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2022-01-21 | Author:Phil Keith

15 What would have been the most notable display of Confederate Navy might was nearly put on display in the port of Bahia, Brazil, on the morning of May 13, ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-04 | Author:David Smithweck [Smithweck, David]

The dredge Janhki from New Orleans positioning a barge for loading debris. SIA 2020-002840.tif. The dredge started pumping at first light this morning and immediately ran into difficulties with the ...

pdf | | 2020-09-24 | Author:Tim Heath & Michela Cocolin

epub |eng | 2021-05-12 | Author:Ian Friel [Friel, Ian]

Dive-bombing imposed huge strains on an airframe, so specialized aircraft were needed to cope with them. In the early 1940s, Japan’s principal dive-bomber was the Aichi D3A, commonly known as ...

pdf | | 2021-09-15 | Author:Karen Dolby [Dolby, Karen]

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Philip Line

Chapter 6 Fortifications and Siegecraft During the period 780–1100 large numbers of fortifications were constructed or continued in use throughout Europe, from Ireland to Russia. The sole region where they ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-04 | Author:Valerie Hansen [Hansen, Valerie]

CHAPTER SEVEN Surprising Journeys Mapmakers divide the waters between Africa and Japan into different seas—the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, the South China Sea, the East ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-12 | Author:Various

Mrs. C. E. H. Stengel, first-class passenger, writes as follows: “As I stepped into the lifeboat an officer in charge said: ‘No more; the boat is full.’ My husband stepped ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lynn Vincent [Vincent, Lynn & Vladic, Sara & Lloyd, John Bedford]

4 AUGUST 15, 1945 ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, headlines—bold, all caps, and glorious—unfurled in newspapers across the nation: New York Times: JAPAN SURRENDERS, END OF WAR! Orlando Morning Sentinel: PEACE: ...

azw3 |eng | 2018-09-05 | Author:Nigel Rigby & Pieter van der Merwe & Glyn Williams [Rigby, Nigel]

MONUMENT TO MONR DE LA PÉROUSE AND HIS COMPANIONS, ERECTED AT BOTANY BAY; lithograph by William Spreat after R.M. Westmacott, from the latter’s Sketches in Australia (1848). The monument was ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-26 | Author:Paul Kennedy [Kennedy, Paul]

Mackinder’s stress upon the importance of the ‘heartland’, later taken up with enthusiasm by Haushofer and the Nazi geopoliticians, and somewhat discredited as a consequence, is probably too simple, one-sided ...