Author: Confederate States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Public Laws of the Confederate States of America
Author: Confederate States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Public Laws of the United States of America, Passed at the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress; 1861. ...
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
The True Mary Todd Lincoln
Author: Betty Boles EllisonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786478365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about the former first lady are factually disproved. At times her judgment was faulty; in other instances it was brilliant. After her 1861 refurbishing of the Executive Mansion, she made no further furnishings purchases, only replacement items. The furniture she purchased is still in use and the Lincoln bed is well known. Committed to an insane asylum by her only surviving son, she organized, while under constant scrutiny, her friends in a skillfully successful scheme to obtain her freedom and resume control of her life and money. Mary Todd Lincoln had a brilliant mind, a caring heart and an exuberant personality and she was, in every aspect, a true partner to Abraham Lincoln.
Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention of North Carolina
Author: North Carolina. ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
Volumes for 1950-19 contained treaties and international agreements issued by the Secretary of State as United States treaties and other international agreements.
“The” Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America ... Ed. by Richard Peters
Author: Public Laws of the United States of America, Passed at the First Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress; 1859-1860
Author: United StatesBibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Author: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631498266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award A Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must-Read" Finalist for the New England Society Book Award Finalist for the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Book Award The bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation’s character—above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. In Rebels at Sea, best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission, and contends that privateers, as they were called, were in fact critical to the American victory. Privateers were privately owned vessels, mostly refitted merchant ships, that were granted permission by the new government to seize British merchantmen and men of war. As Dolin stirringly demonstrates, at a time when the young Continental Navy numbered no more than about sixty vessels all told, privateers rushed to fill the gaps. Nearly 2,000 set sail over the course of the war, with tens of thousands of Americans serving on them and capturing some 1,800 British ships. Privateers came in all shapes and sizes, from twenty-five foot long whaleboats to full-rigged ships more than 100 feet long. Bristling with cannons, swivel guns, muskets, and pikes, they tormented their foes on the broad Atlantic and in bays and harbors on both sides of the ocean. The men who owned the ships, as well as their captains and crew, would divide the profits of a successful cruise—and suffer all the more if their ship was captured or sunk, with privateersmen facing hellish conditions on British prison hulks, where they were treated not as enemy combatants but as pirates. Some Americans viewed them similarly, as cynical opportunists whose only aim was loot. Yet Dolin shows that privateersmen were as patriotic as their fellow Americans, and moreover that they greatly contributed to the war’s success: diverting critical British resources to protecting their shipping, playing a key role in bringing France into the war on the side of the United States, providing much-needed supplies at home, and bolstering the new nation’s confidence that it might actually defeat the most powerful military force in the world. Creating an entirely new pantheon of Revolutionary heroes, Dolin reclaims such forgotten privateersmen as Captain Jonathan Haraden and Offin Boardman, putting their exploits, and sacrifices, at the very center of the conflict. Abounding in tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters, Rebels at Sea presents this nation’s first war as we have rarely seen it before.
Author: United States