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epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:William Dobein James [James, William Dobein]

* * * Detached Narratives for 1781. There was with Marion's brigade throughout, a young man, Robert, commonly called Bob James, but oftener, the general's right hand man. It was ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-20 | Author:Emily Haslam [Haslam, Emily]

The expansion of intervention British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, frequently sitting alone, interpreted slave trade repression treaties inventively and, as a result, expanded the circumstances in which captors could intervene ...
( Category: Civil Rights March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-24 | Author:Neil Price [Price, Neil]

At this point we should briefly consider some of the other theories that have been put forward as explanations for the raids, and therefore as catalysts for the Viking Age ...
( Category: Scandinavia March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Christopher Lloyd [Lloyd, Christopher]

VII THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR OF 1914–18 AT THE END of the nineteenth century Great Britain still stood unchallenged in her supremacy at sea. The figures of first-class battleships ...
( Category: Military March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Sir John Robert Seeley [Seeley, Sir John Robert]

Annexation of Holland—Dissolution of the Alliance of Tilsit Invasion of Russia Arrived now at the pinnacle, Napoleon pauses, as he had paused after Marengo. We are disposed to ask, What ...
( Category: History March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Ruán O'Donnell [O'Donnell, Ruán]

ASSISTED PASSAGE AND THE ‘COFFIN SHIPS’ Evicted tenants and those in dire straits had very few options in 1847. Emigration was possible for those with some cash to spare and ...
( Category: History March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:David Hannay [Hannay, David]

The independence of the United States had been secured and a great blow struck at England by the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. The allies had now to secure prizes ...
( Category: History March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-08 | Author:Edward James Nolan [Nolan, Edward James]

W. S. W. RUSCHENBERGER, 1807–1895. Academy of Natural Sciences. The building had been completed at a cost of $193,682.29. The sum of $50,000 had been subscribed from the amount realized ...
( Category: other March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Mary Platt Parmele [Parmele, Mary Platt]

CHAPTER XIX NAPOLEON IN EUROPE—ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA Paul was forty-one years old when he ascended the throne he had for twenty years believed was rightfully his. The mystery surrounding the ...
( Category: Russia March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-16 | Author:Joseph J Molnar, Miklos Molnar [Joseph J Molnar, Miklos Molnar]

The Mass Organizations According to a tradition that goes back to its origins, the HCP has always made great efforts to create "mass organizations of transmission": organizations for the young, ...
( Category: African History March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-14 | Author:Margaret Bertha Synge [Synge, Margaret Bertha]

CHAPTER XVI Table of Contents Circa 1642—1660 ENGLAND A COMMONWEALTH "For the apparel oft proclaims the man."—Shakspere. IF a large number of Puritans had sailed away from England to make ...
( Category: African History March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-25 | Author:David Hannay [Hannay, David]

* * * CHAPTER IX THE PROTECTORATE Authorities.—Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Cromwell will of course be consulted for this period. Clarendon's intellectual greatness and his insight enable him to ...
( Category: African History March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-23 | Author:Mary Platt Parmele [Parmele, Mary Platt]

CHAPTER XIV. A great change had been wrought in Europe. The Crusades had opened a channel through which flowed from the East reviving streams of ancient knowledge and culture over ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-25 | Author:G. D. H. Cole [Cole, G. D. H.]

BOOKS W. P. Ryan. The Irish Labour Movement. D. Ryan. James Connolly. Wright. Disturbed Dublin. Connolly. The Re-conquest of Ireland. Board of Trade. Annual Report on Strikes and Lock-outs, 1913 ...
( Category: Accounting March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:William Beckford [Beckford, William]

CHAPTER IV The sorrowful troop no sooner arrived at the castle than they were met by Hippolita and Matilda, whom Isabella had sent one of the domestics before to advertise ...
( Category: Linguistics March 6,2023 )

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