Author: James HarrisPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Diaries and Correspondence
Author: James HarrisDiaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury
Author: James Harris Earl of MalmesburyPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson
Author: Henry Crabb RobinsonPublisher:
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris First Earl of Malmesbury Containing an Account of Madrid, to Frederick the Great, Catherine the Second, and at the Hague ..
Author: Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Containing an Account of His Missions at the Court of Madrid... and of His Special Missions to Berlin
Author: Earl of MalmesburyMemorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by various writers, collected, with a prefatory and concluding essay, and notes, by N. Drake
Author: Nathan DrakeDiaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Containing an Account of His Missions to the Court of Madrid, to Frederick the Great, Catherine the Second, and at The Hague
Author: James Harris (1st earl of Malmesbury.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury ; Containing an Account of His Missions to the Courts of Madrid, Frederick the Great ... and His Special Missions to Berlin, Brunswick, an the French Republic. Edited by His Grandson, the Third Earl
Author: James Harris Earl of MalmesburyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
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More Letters of Note
Author: Shaun UsherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781786891693
Category : Correspondence
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER INCLUDING LETTERS FROM: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Bront� and many more. Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts. More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.
The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan
Author: Thomas W. CutrerPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807136584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In his standard reference work on the Civil War, Generals in Blue, Ezra Warner declared George B. McClellan (1826--1885) "one of the most controversial figures in American military history." In this revealing book, Thomas W. Cutrer provides the definitive edition of McClellan's detailed diary and letters from his service in the Mexican War (1846--1848), during which he began the rise that culminated in his being named general in chief of the Union forces and commander of the Army of the Potomac early in the Civil War. McClellan graduated second in his class from West Point in 1846 and served as a second lieutenant in Company A of the prestigious Corps of Engineers, the only formation of combat engineers in the United States Army. The company participated in Major General Winfield Scott's invasion of Mexico, playing a prominent role in the siege of Vera Cruz and the battles of Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec and in the capture of Mexico City. Although only twenty-one years old at the war's end, McClellan earned brevet promotions to first lieutenant and then captain for his efforts. McClellan's colorful diary and frequent letters to his socially and politically prominent Philadelphia family provide a wealth of military details of the campaign, insights into the character of his fellow engineers -- including Robert E. Lee and P. G. T. Beauregard -- and accounts of the friction that arose between the professional soldiers and the officers and men of the volunteer regiments that made up Scott's command. A courageous, indefatigable, and superbly intelligent young man, McClellan formed close personal loyalties in those years. His diaries also reveal a man contemptuous of those he perceived as less talented than he, quick to see conspiracies where none existed, and eager to place upon others the blame for his own shortcomings and to take credit for actions performed by others. On the banks of the Rio Grande during his first weeks with the army, McClellan wrote in his diary: "I came down here with high hopes, with pleasing anticipations of distinction, of being in hard fought battles and acquiring a name and reputation as a stepping stone to a still greater eminence in some future and greater war." Carefully edited by Thomas W. Cutrer, these diary entries and letters do indeed trace McClellan's rapid development as a soldier and leader and put on full display the talent, ambition, and arrogance that characterized his career as general and politician.