Author: John AlmonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Remembrancer, Or Impartial Repository of Public Events
Author: John AlmonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Remembrancer, or Impartial repository of public events [ed. by J. Almon].
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Author: John AlmonHow the Few Became the Proud
Author: Heather VenablePublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682474828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with the Corps' historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors. Although there are countless works on this hallowed fighting force, How the Few Became the Proud is the first to explore how the Marine Corps crafted such powerful myths.
The Siege of Fort Cumberland, 1776
Author: Ernest ClarkePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773518674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Explores why supporters of American independence did not prevail in the Fort Cumberland region of Nova Scotia, revealing how the siege of Fort Cumberland by the Continental army in 1776 shaped the attitudes of Nova Scotians to the revolution and to their place in the North American world. Describes events leading up to the siege, and looks at the attitudes of various players in the region such as New England planters, Natives, and Scots-Irish. Contains bandw illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Naval Documents of the American Revolution: American theatre: May 9, 1776-July 31, 1776
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.
Naval Documents of the American Revolution
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Parliamentary Register; Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons [and House of Lords] Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Speeches and Motions
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Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
The Library of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Edwin WolfPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692573
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf's death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin's library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.