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Excerpt: "The effect produced in England by the unfortunate issue of sir John Moore's campaign, was not proportionable to the importance of the subject. The people, trained to party politics, and possessing no real power to rebuke the folly of the cabinet, regarded disasters and triumphs with factious rather than with national feelings, and it was alike easy to draw the public attention from affairs of weight, and to fix it upon matters of little...

Early-nineteenth-century Europe had been in turmoil. The Napoleonic Wars that once ravaged the continent had ended, Napoleon had been exiled to St. Helena, and his Grande Arm'e lay in disarray. His most devoted officers and men, refusing allegiance to the hated Bourbons, looked for new and distant lands. Hopefully, if not enthusiastically, they came to America. Most of them remained to help build an emerging nation. Among their number were many of...

Convinced that the final chapter on the life and works of David Walker has not been fully written nor appreciated, Dr. Johnson seeks to present additional insights into the life and struggles of Walker for liberation. It is an approach that gets at the core of American Racism, and to present a challenge to current and future generations in order to pursue clarifications of, and answers to the inconsistencies between America's White Slave System, Christianity...

The following course "theory of war" is a bit complex to understand yet all the efforts have been made to make is easy to comprehend. It comprises of several chapters which talks on the following topics: Introduction to war What is war? Causes of war War and human nature Political and moral story of war Read out the course and discover the topic yourself!

American Janus* is the story of a North Carolina Confederate veteran and his family at the dawn of the 20th century. While looking forward to the promise of the future, Harper Clayton can never truly slip his inescapable past as a soldier in the American Civil War and Freedman Bureau agent during Southern Reconstruction. *Janus-- the Roman god of new beginnings and transitions. Janus is portrayed as having two faces, one looking to the future...

Dead Man Running' Description:This is the remarkable true story of Martin McGartland who worked undercover as a British agent inside the Provisional IRA. Captured by the Provos, he escaped and was re-settled on the mainland, but later discovered that he had been deliberately sacrificed by MI5. The book also covers Martin McGartland's return back to Belfast to try and discover why MI5 had attempted to organise his execution.During his years in hiding...

El autor narra en primera persona su experiencia como comisario político en el ejército de la República durante la guerra civil española. Es un testimonio de gran valor humano en el que el autor realiza una importante aportación histórica sobre la Columna Durruti y la Batalla del Segre.

Few historians immersed themselves in their topics like bestselling, noted author Ernle Bradford. Specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics, Bradford was an enthusiastic sailor himself and spent almost thirty years sailing the Mediterranean, where many of his acclaimed books are set. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, finishing as the first lieutenant of a destroyer, and afterward worked as an editor and correspondent...

An eye witness account of the November Insurrection of 1830.