Author: Constantine Henry Phipps Marquis of NormanbyPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Correspondence between Lord Normanby (2 letters) and Octavius Morgan (2 letters).
Author: Constantine Henry Phipps Marquis of NormanbyPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Man from the Alamo
Author: John HumphriesPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455608270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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John Rees, soldier and freedom fighter, was a shadowy figure who surfaced during two crucial nineteenth-century revolts and then disappeared from history. For the first time, author John Humphries reveals the fate of the man, first mentioned as a member of the New Orleans Greys, who fought for Texan Independence at the Alamo and narrowly escaped execution at the Goliad Mission. Later, Rees was one of the main agitators in the doomed Welsh Chartist movement. Twenty-two men died during the Chartist attack upon the Westgate Hotel when a detachment from the 45th Regiment of Foot, hidden behind the hotel's shuttered windows, discharged their muskets into the crowd. For waging war against the monarch, thirteen of the Chartist leaders were indicted for high treason in the last great show trial in British legal history, while Rees escaped back to the American West. Rees' spectacular journey from the bloodied sands of Texas to the last armed uprising on British soil is only one of the stories told in this book.
The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1841-May 1842, letters 784-966
Author: Robert BrowningPublisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The Treaty of Waitangi
Author: Thomas Lindsay BuickPublisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Manuscripts of Lord Kenyon
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical ManuscriptsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Mission and Moko
Author: Robert GlenPublisher:
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Category : Conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The Challicum Sketch Book 1842-53
Author: Duncan Elphinstone CooperPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642104107
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The nineteenth century squatter and painter Duncan Elphinstone Cooper spent about thirteen years of his life in the Western District of Victoria where he painted the fifty-four pictures presented in this volume. Most of these are from Cooper's The Challicum Sketch Book, now a treasured part of the collections of the National Library of Australia; the paintings deal almost exclusively with the grazing property of that name — from tent to house and beyond.
Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare
Author: Russell AshPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312545355
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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There’s a baby born every minute and each one has to be named. In this book, you’ll find an insanity of nomenclature that beggars belief. Russell Ash has trawled birth, marriage, and death certificates, phone books, and censuses going back centuries to compile a compendium of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true names. Why on earth would Mr. and Mrs. O’Shea name their son Rick? What were the Fants thinking when they named their child Elle? Or Mr. and Mrs. Royd, for that matter, when naming their daughter Emma? Or how about Everard Cock, Page Turner, or Sally Forth? In this painstakingly researched, utterly true, riotously entertaining collection, readers will discover real-life examples of some of the most unusual, crude, and shocking names ever, presenting a laugh-out-loud overview of eccentricity through the ages.
The Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell: 1792-1828
Author: Daniel O'ConnellProceedings of the Church Missionary Society
Author: Church Missionary SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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