Author: Henry Marie BrackenridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain
Author: Henry Marie BrackenridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain (Classic Reprint)
Author: H. M. BrackenridgePublisher:
ISBN: 9781330642818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Excerpt from History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain The work now presented to the public, after passing through five large editions, has been for many years entirely out of circulation, and it was with much difficulty that a copy of it could be procured by the publishers. At the time of this publication it was the only one calculated for general use, and none has yet appeared comprising in so small a compass so many details of the events of the last war between Great Britain and the United States. The frequent demands for the work have induced the publishers to prevail on the author to revise and prepare it for a new edition with great care. This is now offered to the public. As to the merit of the work, the reader must judge for himself. Its general accuracy has received the approbation of those most capable of judging. It has been translated by a French writer, M. Dalmas, who speaks in high terms of the energy of the style, and the clearness of the narrative. It has also been translated by an Italian writer of celebrity. The design of the work was not a history of the times, embracing the legislative, diplomatic and statistical subjects connected with the war. These are occasionally glanced at. But it was the intention of the author to bring within one narrative, as far as it was practicable, all the campaigns, battles, skirmishes and incidents which may properly be considered as constituting the events of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain
Author: Gilbert J. HuntPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This is a famous educational text by Gilbert J. Hunt presenting an account of the War of 1812 in the style of the King James Bible. It starts with President James Madison and the congressional declaration of war and then describes the Burning of Washington, the Battle of New Orleans, and the Treaty of Ghent.
History of the Late War, Between the United States and Great Britain
Author: Henry Marie BrackenridgePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484504225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Excerpt from History of the Late War, Between the United States and Great Britain: Containing a Minute Account of the Various Military and Naval Operations, Illustrated With Plates The obstinate persistance of Great Britain in her pre tensions to this prerogative, first broke the ties of depen dence, which it was so much her interest to preserve, and her subsequent illiberal policy, has tended to weaken the influence of affinity, which a true wisdom would have taught her to cherish. Why is it that the enmity of those, between whom there naturally exist the most numerous bonds of friendship, is the most bitter? It is because each of these is a distinct cord which may vibrate to the feelings of hatred, as well as of love. With China, with Turkey, with France, we may be governed by temporary and varying policy, but towards England we can never feel indifference. Why then has England taken so much pains, to make us hate her as a nation? The grievances of which we have to complain, by frequent recital, have grown wearisome to the car. There always existed, and still exist, numerous ties to attach us to Britain, which nothing but her ungenerous and unnatural policy, can weaken or destroy. Her wisest and best men foretold to her, the consequences of the usurpations which led to our independence, and yet she still continued to afflict us, with every species of irritating and insulting deport ment, and then at last complained of our unnatural con duct, in refusing to bear it any lon er. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The War of 1812
Author: J. C. A. StaggPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107377641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 1812–15 were shaped by the larger crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. In synthesizing and reinterpreting scholarship on the war, Professor J. C. A. Stagg focuses on the war as a continental event, highlighting its centrality to Canadian nationalism and state development. The book introduces the war to students and general readers, concluding that it resulted in many ways from an emerging nation-state trying to contend with the effects of rival European nationalisms, both in Europe itself and in the Atlantic world.
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
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Author: Willis and SotheranPerpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Jeff SmithPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501398962
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change between the American Founding and the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of finding authority in written texts. The issue arose from several disruptive developments: rising challenges to the traditional authority of the Bible in a society that was intensely Protestant; persistent worries over America's lack of a “national literature” and an independent cultural identity; and the slavery crisis, which provoked tremendous struggles over clashing interpretations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, even as these “parascriptures” were rising to the status of a kind of quasi-sacred secular canon. At the same time but from the opposite direction, new mass media were creating a new, industrial-scale print culture that put a premium on very non-sacred, disposable text: mass-produced “news,” dispensed immediately and in huge quantities but meant only for the day or hour. Perpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America identifies key features of the writings, careers and cultural politics of several prominent Americans as responses to this cluster of challenges. In their varied attempts to vindicate the sacred and to merge the timeless with the urgent present, Joseph Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Abraham Lincoln, and other religious and political leaders and men and women of letters helped define American literary culture as an ongoing quest for new “bibles,” or what Emerson called a “perpetual scripture.”