Author: Peter NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stony Creek (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A Stony Creek Miscellany
Author: Peter NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stony Creek (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Boy's Miscellany
Author: A Military Miscellany
Author: Thomas AyresPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 030748825X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
For armchair generals, history buffs, and military enthusiasts everywhere, A Military Miscellany is an essential and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, and stories from America’s rich military legacy. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia, and strange-but-true stories overlooked by historians, it’s all here in a book that will enlighten and amaze even the most avid student of American military history. Did you know that American soldiers have been sent to invade foreign nations or their territories more than two hundred times since Thomas Jefferson dispatched troops to North Africa in 1803 to punish Muslim pirates? Or that during the Vietnam War a can opener was called a John Wayne? Or that a downed World War II airman once trekked across Germany, through occupied France, and across the mountains into Spain to avoid capture–only to be treated as a spy because Allied military intelligence said it couldn’t be done? Open this book anywhere and you’ll find yourself instantly captivated. From the "peace president" who was our most frequent practitioner of gunboat diplomacy to the Revolutionary War hero whose refusal to cut his hair set off a four-year rebellion that went all the way to the White House, there’s plenty of fascinating lore here–from the monumental to the trivial–in an indispensable encyclopedic work that takes up where ordinary history books leave off.
Friends' Miscellany
Author: John ComlyThe Indian Miscellany
Author: William Wallace BeachPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385567750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Naval Miscellany
Author: Angus KonstamPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147280371X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For armchair admirals, history buffs, and naval enthusiasts everywhere, A Naval Miscellany is an indispensible and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, curiosities and stories from our naval past. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia, and strange-but-true stories are all included. Who were the naval heroes of the ancient world, and the world's worst admirals? How much did a midshipman get paid in the eighteenth century? What are the origins of sea shanties? Where are the biggest naval bases in the world today? And how does a ship float? It's all here in this little book that will amaze and enlighten even the most avid student of naval history!
Water Resources Paper
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany
Author: Water Resources Data for Virginia
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Author: