Author: Martin ToddPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Sailors, Soldiers and Statesmen
Author: Martin ToddSailors, Statesmen - and Others
Author: Joseph Montague Kenworthy Baron StrabolgiPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Statesmen and Soldiers of the Civil War
Author: Sir Frederick MauricePublisher: Boston : Little, Brown
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"Authorities quoted": pages 163-166.
Soldiers and sailors
Author: Charles Francis HornePublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
A collection of biographies by various authors.
Portraits of Prominent People (rulers, Statesmen, Soldiers, Sailors, Etc.)
Author: Fred ShawPublisher:
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Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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American Men of Action
Author: Burton Egbert StevensonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540376596
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The purpose of this book is "to give the essential facts of American history by sketching in broad outline the men who made that history." It contains chapters on The Beginners; Washington to Lincoln; Lincoln and his successors; Statesmen; Pioneers; Great Soldiers; and Great Sailors. Show Excerpt Virginia and New England and the Dutch and Quaker colonies. Almost any boy or girl will find them interesting, for they are written with care, in simple language, and not without an engaging humor. There are so many biographies of Washington that it is difficult to choose among them. Perhaps the most interesting are those by Woodrow Wilson, Horace E. Scudder, Paul Leicester Ford, and Henry Cabot Lodge--all well-written and with an effort to give a true impression of the man. Of the other Presidents, no better biographies exist than those in the "American Statesmen" series, where, of course, the lives of the principal statesmen are also to be found. Not all of them, nor, perhaps, even most of them are worth reading by the average boy or girl. There is no especial reason why the life of any man should be studied in detail after he has ceased to be a factor in history. Of the Presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln are still vital to the life of to-day, and of the statesmen there are a few, lik
Sailors, Statesmen-and Others
Author: Joseph Montague KenworthyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 32
Author: Charles Francis HornePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266602248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Excerpt from Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 32: A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History, Soldiers and Sailors, Statesmen and Sages, Workmen and Heroes, Artists and Authors I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world it enables the enemies of free institutions to taunt us as hypocrites; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity; is at war with the Vital principles of civic liberty; contrary to the Declaration of Independence; and maintains that there is no right principle of action but self-interest. N 0 man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. I object to the Nebraska Bill because it assumes there can be moral right in the enslaving of one man by another. 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.
Soldiers And Statesmen, 1914-1918
Author: Field-Marshal Sir William RobertsonPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786256886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Sir William “Wully” Robertson was the first (and only) man to rise from the lowliest rank of private soldier to the highest rank of Field Marshal within the British Army. Determined, strong-willed and militarily conservative he served ably in field and staff positions in India and South Africa; always chary of wasting his men’s lives. When the First World War broke out he sailed with the BEF in 1914 as quartermaster-general but was promoted to the post of chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1915. A staunch “westerner” who believed that the war could only be won in France and Flanders by knocking the German army out of the war, he faced many amateur strategists who wanted to squander resources in other theatres. By 1918 he resigned his post in disgust at the policies of David Lloyd George who refused to reinforce Sir Douglas Haig in France precipitating the German breakthroughs of the spring and summer. From the very start of the war Robertson was at the hub of the action at the highest levels of the British war effort; in these two volumes he reveals the decisions and struggles that shaped that strategy. Filled with the opinion of the “westerner” school of thought; through the pages Robertson despairs at the Gallipoli invasion, sets against the Salonika disaster and fumes at the civilian members of the war cabinet and the “Supreme War Council”. Written a short time after the war with it all fresh and even with some bad feeling in mind these two volumes are essential to the History of the First World War.
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