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Author : William Henry G. Kingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The fire-ships written by William Henry G. Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W.H.G Kingston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752368667
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships written by W.H.G Kingston and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships by W.H.G Kingston
Author : Jerome A. Greene
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611210054
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Guns of Independence written by Jerome A. Greene and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern, scholarly account of the most decisive campaign during the American Revolution examining the artillery, tactics and leadership involved. The siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781 was the single most decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The campaign has all the drama any historian or student could want: the war’s top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare; night bayonet attacks; and much more. Until now, however, no modern scholarly treatment of the entire campaign has been produced. By the summer of 1781, America had been at war with England for six years. No one believed in 1775 that the colonists would put up such a long and credible struggle. France sided with the colonies as early as 1778, but it was the dispatch of 5,500 infantry under Comte de Rochambeau in the summer of 1780 that shifted the tide of war against the British. In early 1781, after his victories in the Southern Colonies, Lord Cornwallis marched his army north into Virginia. Cornwallis believed the Americans could be decisively defeated in Virginia and the war brought to an end. George Washington believed Cornwallis’s move was a strategic blunder, and he moved vigorously to exploit it. Feinting against General Clinton and the British stronghold of New York, Washington marched his army quickly south. With the assistance of Rochambeau's infantry and a key French naval victory at the Battle off the Capes in September, Washington trapped Cornwallis on the tip of a narrow Virginia peninsula at a place called Yorktown. And so it began. Operating on the belief that Clinton was about to arrive with reinforcements, Cornwallis confidently remained within Yorktown’s inadequate defenses. Determined that nothing short of outright surrender would suffice, his opponent labored day and night to achieve that end. Washington’s brilliance was on display as he skillfully constricted Cornwallis’s position by digging entrenchments, erecting redoubts and artillery batteries, and launching well-timed attacks to capture key enemy positions. The nearly flawless Allied campaign sealed Cornwallis’s fate. Trapped inside crumbling defenses, he surrendered on October 19, 1781, effectively ending the war in North America. Penned by historian Jerome A. Greene, The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781 offers a complete and balanced examination of the siege and the participants involved. Greene’s study is based upon extensive archival research and firsthand archaeological investigation of the battlefield. This fresh and invigorating study will satisfy everyone interested in American Revolutionary history, artillery, siege tactics, and brilliant leadership.
Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Fire-Ships. A tale of the last Naval War written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Henry G. Kingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The fire-ships. Illustr. ed written by William Henry G. Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Rennie
Publisher : Games Workshop(uk)
ISBN 13 : 9780743411653
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Execution Hour written by Gordon Rennie and published by Games Workshop(uk). This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vile and unholy shadow of Chaos falls across the Gothic sector at the onslaught of Warmaster Abaddon's infernal Black Crusade. Fighting a desperate rearguard action, the Imperial Battlefleet has no choice but to sacrifice dozens of worlds and millions of lives to buy precious time for their fleets to regroup. But what possible chance do they have when Abaddon's unholy forces have the power to kill men and murder entire planets?
Author : Hugh B. Cave
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1592241611
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (922 download)
Download or read book The Fightin'est Ship written by Hugh B. Cave and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military history. The story of the World War II warship dubbed "The Fightin'est Ship" -- the cruiser "Helena."
Author : Peter Kirsch
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783469579
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Fireship written by Peter Kirsch and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fireship was the guided missile of the sailing era. Packed with incendiary (and sometimes explosive) material, it was aimed at its highly inflammable wooden target by volunteers who bailed out into a boat at the last moment. It often missed, but the panic it invariably caused among crews who generally could not swim and had no method of safely abandoning ship did the job for it—the most famous example being the attack off Gravelines in 1588 which led to the rout of the Spanish Armada.Although it was a tactic used in antiquity, its successful revival in the Armada campaign led to the adoption of the fireship as an integral part of the fleet. During the seventeenth century increasingly sophisticated 'fireworks' were designed into purpose-built ships, and an advance doctrine was worked out for their employment. Fireship reveals the full impact of the weapon on naval history, looks at the technology and analyses the reasons for its decline.This is the first history of a potent, much used but little understood weapon.
Author : Calvin J. Boal
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449712037
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Last Run of the Whisperer written by Calvin J. Boal and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Last Run of the Whisperer" is a historical fiction novel based upon the Revolutionary War records of William Waterman of Norwich, Connecticut colony. The author has taken the information that William Waterman has provided to us through his own account of his service in the American Revolution, when he petitioned the United States Congress in 1832, for a pension for said service. The author has taken the information provided by William Waterman and completed extensive research on the battles and areas of service that our hero served in, embellishing and expounded upon this information, to develop an exciting and accurate historical story surrounding our hero, William Waterman. William Waterman himself, in his petition to the United States Congress identifies one severe wound received in said service, at the battle of White Plain, in the colony of New York, above New York City. This wound by itself could have cost our hero his life. That he survived this wound and the numerous other battles and action that he undoubtedly saw was extraordinary. Although William Waterman lists a number of battles and theatres of war he saw service in, he does not describe the details of these battles. The author takes his literary liberty, upon researching these battles and events to interject our hero into the battles. That William Waterman is involved in each and everyone of these battles or theatres of war in based upon William Waterman's own account. Upon his completion of service in the Continental army, William Waterman listed his next service as a privateer, that is as a licensed pirate. The author has taken the liberty to believe that William Waterman engaged as a privateer in the cause of the upstart Americans and prayed upon British shipping, as he makes no mention of serving the British in his petition to the United States Congress, and infact lists his service as a privateer in his petition for his pension, indicating that all of his papers and records of his service in the Continental army were lost when the ship he was engaged on as a privateer was sunk, leading to his subsequent imprisonment by the British on the prison ship "Jersey." Our hero, William Waterman also does not identify the name of the ship on which he was engaged as a privateer. Again the author takes his literary liberty to name the privateer ship, and thus we have the "Last Run of the Whisperer." During the course of our adventure, William Waterman looses his boyhood friend to the cause of the American Revolution, learns that his father is fighting against him on the side of the British, looses his first love to another man while he is imprisoned, and eventually finds the girl he is to marry while hiding from the British. William Waterman finds peace and contentment spending his life after the war living in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Author : David Greentree
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472814142
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book British Submarine vs Italian Torpedo Boat written by David Greentree and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the war in North Africa escalated, Axis war efforts became increasingly dependent on supply lines across the Mediterranean. To try to cut off these lines of supply the British deployed submarines from the besieged island of Malta with the directive to sink as much merchant convoy tonnage as possible. Italy responded by sending her Torpedo boats to protect and escort Axis convoys. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and carefully chosen archive photographs, this engaging study assesses the evolving battle between Britain's submarines and Italy's torpedo boats in the struggle for primacy in the Mediterranean at the height of World War II.
Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Fire-ships written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances H. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199324239
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The American Revolution written by Frances H. Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Congress commissioned the National Park Service to compile a list of sites and landmarks connected with the American Revolution that it deemed vital to preserve for future generations. Some of these sites are well known--Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Fort Ticonderoga--and in no danger of being lost; others less so-- Blackstock's Plantation in South Carolina or Bryan's Station in Kentucky--and more vulnerable. But all are central to the story of our nation's fight for independence. From battlefields to encampments, meeting houses to museums, these places offer us a chance to rediscover the remarkable men and women who founded this nation and to recognize the relevance of not just what they did, but where they did it. The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook takes readers to nearly 150 of these sites, providing an overview of the Revolution through an exploration of the places where American independence was articulated, fought for, and eventually secured. Beginning with the Boston Common, first occupied by British troops in 1768, and closing with Fraunces Tavern in New York, where George Washington bid farewell to his officers on December 4, 1783, Kennedy takes readers on a tour of the most significant places of Revolutionary history. Accompanied by illuminating excerpts and essays from some of the foremost scholars in the field, including David McCullough, Barbara Tuchman, David Hackett Fischer, Eric Foner, and John Ferling, the entries move in a roughly chronological order from the pre-Revolutionary years up through 1787. Taken together, the combination of site, essay, and excerpt provides rich context and overview, giving a sense of the major figures and events as well as the course of the Revolution, and cover topics ranging from the Boston Tea Party to the frontier wars. The guide is encyclopedic in scope and covers a wide geographical sweep. Accompanied by historical maps, as well as a number of illuminating primary documents including the Declaration of Independence and letters from John Adams and George Washington, it offers a comprehensive picture of how the Revolutionary War unfolded on American soil, and also points readers to the best writing on the subject in the last fifty years. The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook is an essential companion for anyone interested in the story and history of our nation's founding.
Author : David Drake
Publisher : Ace
ISBN 13 : 9780441004171
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Fireships written by David Drake and published by Ace. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his acclaimed novels, "Igniting the Reaches" and "Through the Breach", David Drake took an epic journey to the farthest reaches of space, where pirates ruled a new age of expansion and opportunity. Now Drake returns to that savage time of untold possibility, wealth and danger.
Author : John Dryden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Works of John Dryden ... written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Martin Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Official History of the Russian-Japanese War written by James Martin Miller and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hardpress
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781406975482
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Fire-Ships written by Hardpress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
