The Bloody Summer Of 1742
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The Bloody Summer Of 1742
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Author : Joyce Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Fort Frederica Assoc
Release Date : 1985-02-01
The Bloody Summer Of 1742 written by Joyce Blackburn and has been published by Fort Frederica Assoc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-02-01 with Diaries. categories.
This book vividly details an account of a child's life in colonial Georgia. The journal recounts the life of a young Scottish boy named Johnny "Little Jack" McLeod in the weeks surrounding the decisive battle for English/Spanish control over Georgia. Johnny lived in Frederica Town, the fortified settlement & southern military headquarters for British North America. The British victory at Bloody Marsh on St. Simons Island ended Spain's claims to Georgian lands. Frederica Town is brought to life through vibrant accounts of the boy's observations of the soldiers, craftsmen & families living in this bustling 18th century military town. This journal sparks a child's imagination & appreciation of Georgia's rich heritage. The 63 page bound paperback book is written to a mid-elementary grade reader level. It is handsomely illustrated by Critt Graham. Author Joyce Blackburn is a noted biographer of James Oglethorpe, Georgia's founder, & other prize winning historical novels for young readers. The book retails for $4.25, plus shipping & handling & is available from the Fort Frederica Association, Rt. #9, Box 286-C, St. Simons Island, GA 31522. (912) 638-3639. A 40% discount is available to booksellers. Library or educator discounts are also available.
James Edward Oglethorpe
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Author : Joyce Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2004-10-01
James Edward Oglethorpe written by Joyce Blackburn and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
James Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire. But history was not to let him stay unnoticed. As a member of Parliament in the eighteenth century, Oglethorpe fought for debtors? rights and prison reform, and when he gained them, volunteered to found a new colony in America. Under his direction, settlements were established, strong bonds were formed with the Creek Indians, and the colony of Georgia flourished. He guided it during its formative years and protected it during war with Spain. That alone should have assured Oglethorpe of his place in history...but as he learned, politics and fortune are fickle. In this captivating biography, Joyce Blackburn details the career and life of this gallant gentleman, hero, visionary, and patriot.
The Bloody Eleventh 1685 1815
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Author : R. E. R. Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Bloody Eleventh 1685 1815 written by R. E. R. Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Great Britain categories.
The Peninsular War(1) Arrival in Spain - Busaco August 1809-September 1810; (2) To Torres Vedras and Back to the Coa 28th Sptember 1810-8th April 1811; (3) The Almeida Drama and the March to Arronches and Back April-December 1811; (4) The Marching Division 1st January-10th June 1812; (5) The Salamanca Forts - Advance to the Duero and Back 13th June-21st July 1812; (6) Salamanca 22nd July 1812; (7)The Nightmare of Burgos and the Retreat to Portugal 23rd July-December 1812; (8) Farewell to Portugal and the Great Flank March to Vittoria November 1812-24th June 1813; (9) Sorauren("Pyrenees") 22nd June-30th July 1813; (10) Info France - Crossing the Bidassoa - Nivelle - Nive 31st July-13th December 1813; (11) Crossing the Gaves - Orthes - Tarbes 13th December 1813-20th March 1814;(12) Toulouse 21st March-10th April 1814; Conclusion: The End of an Era and the Way ahead.
Island Time
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Author : Jingle Davis
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013-06-01
Island Time written by Jingle Davis and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with Travel categories.
Capturing the history and beauty of a key destination in the land of the Golden Isles... Eighty miles south of Savannah lies St. Simons Island, one of the most beloved seaside destinations in Georgia and home to some twenty thousand year-round residents. In Island Time, Jingle Davis and Benjamin Galland offer a fascinating history and stunning visual celebration of this coastal community. Prehistoric people established some of North America's first permanent settlements on St. Simons, leaving three giant shell rings as evidence of their occupation. People from other diverse cultures also left their mark: Mocama and Guale Indians, Spanish friars, pirates and privateers, British soldiers and settlers, German religious refugees, and aristocratic antebellum planters. Enslaved Africans and their descendants forged the unique Gullah Geechee culture that survives today. Davis provides a comprehensive history of St. Simons, connecting its stories to broader historical moments. Timbers for Old Ironsides were hewn from St. Simons's live oaks during the Revolutionary War. Aaron Burr fled to St. Simons after killing Alexander Hamilton. Susie Baker King Taylor became the first black person to teach openly in a freedmen's school during her stay on the island. Rachel Carson spent time on St. Simons, which she wrote about in The Edge of the Sea. The island became a popular tourist destination in the 1800s, with visitors arriving on ferries until a causeway opened in 1924. Davis describes the challenges faced by the community with modern growth and explains how St. Simons has retained the unique charm and strong sense of community that it is known for today. Featuring more than two hundred contemporary photographs, historical images, and maps, Island Time is an essential book for people interested in the Georgia coast. A Friends Fund publication.
Suki And The Invisible Peacock
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Author : Joyce Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Providence House Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Suki And The Invisible Peacock written by Joyce Blackburn and has been published by Providence House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Suki's life is changed when the invisible peacock living in her backyard becomes her best friend..
The War Of Jenkins Ear
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Author : Robert Gaudi
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-11-02
The War Of Jenkins Ear written by Robert Gaudi and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with History categories.
Filled with unforgettable characters and martime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States—and the entire Western Hemisphere. In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession (sometimes known as Queen Anne's War in the Americas), culminating in the War of Jenkins' Ear. This war would lay the ground work for the French and Indian War and, eventually, the War of the American Revolution. The War of Jenkins' Ear was a world war in the truest sense, engaging the major European powers on battlefields ranging from Europe to the Americas to the Asian subcontinent. Yet the conflict that would eventually become known as the War of Jenkins' Ear—a moniker coined by the 19th century historian Robert Carlyle more than a century later—is barely known to us today. Yet it resulted in the invasion of Georgia and even involved members of George Washington’s own family. It would cost fifty-thousand lives, millions in treasure, and over six hundred ships. With vivid prose, Robert Gaudi takes the reader from the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the rocky shores of Tierra del Fuego. We travel around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Pacific to the Philippines and the Cantonese coast, with stops in Cartagena, Panama, and beyond. Yet even though it happened decades before American independence, The War of Jenkins' Ear reveals that this was truly an American war; a hard-fought, costly struggle that determined the fate of the Americas, and in which, for the first time, American armies participated. In this definitive work of history—the only single comprehensive volume on the subject—The War of Jenkins’ Ear explores the war that establed the future of two entire continents.
Suki And The Wonder Star
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Author : Joyce Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Providence House Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Suki And The Wonder Star written by Joyce Blackburn and has been published by Providence House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
After visiting Chicago's Adler Planeterium, Suki dreams about the Star of Bethlehem and makes an important discovery about the new boy she thinks is a show-off.
The First Way Of War
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Author : John Grenier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-31
The First Way Of War written by John Grenier and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-31 with History categories.
This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.
Horace Walpole
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Author : Timothy Mowl
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Horace Walpole written by Timothy Mowl and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Horace Walpole, famous for his novel The Castle of Otranto and his gothick castle-villa, Strawberry Hill, has been oddly shielded by his previous admirers. The most famous of these was W. S. Lewis, a rich American scholar, who collected virtually all of Walpole's surviving letters and papers and edited them in forty-eight impressive volumes. He was however a conventional man of his times and could not bring himself to acknowledge Walpole's homosexuality and its implications. R. W. Ketton-Cremer, who wrote what was otherwise a very good biography of Walpole, was similarly evasive. Timothy Mowl's study of Horace Walpole is the first to give a complete and convincing picture of the whole man. It is the first to show that, despite his aristocratic connections (he was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister) Horace Walpole was a sexual and social outsider whose talents as a publicist were used to serve his own agenda. Also revealed for the first time is Walpole's passionate affair with the 9th Earl of Lincoln. The ending of that relationship, and Walpole's subsequent resentment of Lincoln's relatives, affected his judgment, friendships and emotions for the rest of his life. This book provides an honest and radical reassessment of one of the most influential men of taste of the eighteenth-century, and is reissued to coincide with a major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition dedicated to Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. 'This is a lively, provocative and hugely entertaining book. Whatever one makes of Dr Mowl's interpretation of Walpole's career, it is always intelligently argued, and presented with a polemical vigour and sense of style which are worthy of his subject's own.' John Adamson, Sunday Review '. . . he is lively and convincing on the gradual accretions to Strawberry Hill, and often shrewd on the character of his subject . . .' Pat Rogers, Times Literary Supplement 'In general, Mowl writes delightfully, and there are witticisms that Horry (Horace Walpole) himself would relish.' Bevis Hillier, The Spectator 'In this vivid and entertaining biography, Horace Walpole is properly outed.' Duncan Sprott, Gay Times '. . .he presents the most credible picture of the man and his achievement to date.' Martin Postle, Apollo 'This wicked, enjoyable book should provoke wide debate.' David Watkin, Evening Standard
Paths Of Glory
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Author : Stephen Brumwell
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Paths Of Glory written by Stephen Brumwell and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
Ugly, gangling, and tormented by agonising illness, Major General James Wolfe was an unlikely hero. Yet in 1759, on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec, he won a battle with momentous consequences. Wolfe's victory, bought at the cost of his life, ensured that English, not French, would become the dominant language in North America. Ironically, by crippling French ambitions on that continent, Wolfe paved the way for American independence from Britain. Just thirty-two years old when he was killed in action, Wolfe had served in the British army since his mid-teens, fighting against the French in Flanders and Germany, and the Jacobites in Scotland. Already renowned for bold leadership, Wolfe's death at the very moment of his victory at Quebec cemented his heroic status on both sides of the Atlantic. Epic paintings of Wolfe's dying moments transformed him into an icon of patriotic self-sacrifice, and a role model for Horatio Nelson. Once venerated as the very embodiment of military genius and soldierly modesty, Wolfe's reputation has recently undergone sustained assault by revisionist historians who instead see him as a bloodthirsty and priggish young man, a general who owned his name and fame to one singularly lucky - though crucial - victory. But was there more to James Wolfe than a celebrated death? In Paths of Glory, the first full-length biography of Wolfe to appear in almost half a century, Stephen Brumwell seeks to answer that question, drawing upon extensive research to offer a reassessment of a soldier whose short but dramatic life unquestionably altered the course of world history.