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Author : John Childs
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ISBN 13 : 9781474210690
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army written by John Childs and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Childs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144112392X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army written by John Childs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery nearly resulted in the city's fall and he was made to look ridiculous when the blockade was eventually lifted by a few sailors in a rowing boat. Yet Kirke was closely involved in some of the most important events in British and Irish history. He served as the last governor of the colony of Tangier; played a central role in facilitating the Glorious Revolution of 1688; and fought in the majority of the principal actions and campaigns undertaken by the newly-formed standing armies in England, Ireland and Scotland, especially the Battle of the Boyne and the first Siege of Limerick in 1689. With the aid of his own earlier work in the field, additional primary sources and a recently-rediscovered letter book, John Childs looks beyond the fictionalisation of Kirke, most notably by R. D. Blackmore in Lorna Doone, to investigate the historical reality of his career, character, professional competence, politics and religion. As well as offering fresh, detailed narratives of such episodes as Monmouth's Rebellion, the conspiracies in 1688 and the Siege of Londonderry, this pioneering biography also presents insights into contemporary military personnel, patronage, cliques and procedures.
Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473856655
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book A Guide to British Military History written by Ian F. W. Beckett and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of military professionals and was used to support national history and nationalism. Now, though, the study of war has been transformed by the war and society approach, by the examination of identity, memory and gender, and a less Euro-centric and more global perspective. Generally it is recognised that war and conflict must be integrated into the wider narrative of historical development, and this is why Ian Becketts research guide is such a useful tool for anyone working in this growing field. It introduces students to all the key debates, issues and resources. While European and global perspectives are not neglected, there is an emphasis on the British experience of war since 1500. This survey of British military history will be essential reading and reference for anyone who has a professional or amateur interest in the subject, and it will be a valuable introduction for newcomers to it.
Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245181
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book To Save the Country written by Francis Lieber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergency The last work of Abraham Lincoln’s law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost—until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber’s manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important contemporary debates in law and political philosophy and stands as a significant historical discovery. As a key legal advisor to the Lincoln White House, Columbia College professor Francis Lieber was one of the architects and defenders of Lincoln’s most famous uses of emergency powers during the Civil War. Lieber’s work laid the foundation for rules now accepted worldwide. In the years after the war, Lieber and his son turned their attention to the question of emergency powers. The Liebers’ treatise addresses a vital question, as prominent since 9/11 as it was in Lieber’s lifetime: how much power should the government have in a crisis? The Liebers present a theory that aims to preserve legal restraint, while giving the executive necessary freedom of action. Smiley and Witt have written a lucid introduction that explains how this manuscript is a key discovery in two ways: both as a historical document and as an important contribution to the current debate over emergency powers in constitutional democracies.
Author : George Macaulay Trevelyan
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Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book From 1714 to the present day written by George Macaulay Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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Author : George Macaulay Trevelyan
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Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book History of England: From 1485 to the end of the reign of Queen Anne, 1714 written by George Macaulay Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Haydn
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Total Pages : 660 pages
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Author : Sir William Clarke
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Author : Warren Hasty Carroll
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Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Revolution Against Christendom, 1661-1815 written by Warren Hasty Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles developments in Christianity and the Catholic Curch, the papacy and its place in world history from 1661 to 1815, focusing in particular on the Church in France from the French Revolution through the rule of Napoleon.
Author : Peter Le Fevre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Precursors of Nelson written by Peter Le Fevre and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Nelson dominates the naval history of the late eighteenth century, in many respects his achievements marked the culmination of a developing tactical tradition in the Royal Navy. The contribution of his predecessors has been neglected, however, largely because so few admirals have received proper modern study. This volume sets out to adjust the record by providing a series of in-depth biographical essays of the most important figures, each written by a specialist in the field.
Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134870418
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England written by Linda Levy Peck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.
Author : Ana Sáez-Hidalgo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438041
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Exile, Diplomacy and Texts written by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances and corresponding antagonisms. Such conditions notwithstanding, the essays in this volume challenge conventionally monolithic views of confrontation, providing – through fresh examination of exchanges of news, movements and interactions of people, transactions of books and texts – new evidence of trans-national and trans-cultural conversations between British and Irish communities in the Iberian Peninsula, and of Spanish and Portuguese ‘others’ travelling to Britain and Ireland. Contributors: Berta Cano-Echevarría, Rui Carvalho Homem, Mark Hutchings, Thomas O’Connor, Susana Oliveira, Tamara Pérez-Fernández, Glyn Redworth, Marta Revilla-Rivas, and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo.
Author : Thomas Percy
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Total Pages : 584 pages
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Author : Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613104499
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book This Country of Ours written by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊH. E. MarshallÕs dedication to the preservation of American history is evident in the details of this text, which features over a hundred different stories divided into seven headings. Despite it being nearly a century old, ÒThis Country of OursÓ is just as readable as it was when originally published. ÊIt presents the facts about history and the lives of the men and women that are often lost in history books in this present day. There are Christian morals and Biblical truths discussed in the lives.
Author : Noel T. St. John Williams
Publisher : Brassey's
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Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Redcoats and Courtesans written by Noel T. St. John Williams and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1994 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This] story will tell the birth of the modern British army? and of how and why it began. It will chronicle its dramatic growth within the space of two reigns, from a small force of foot and horse guards, which Charles II raised and paid out of his own pocket to protect his person and safeguard his throne, to a standing army of over three dozen famous regiments. This army saw active service on the Continent, in the colonies and on the African mainland, where at Tangier it would win the first battle honour to be inscribed on a British regimental colour. It is a story of wars, plots and rebellions, of fire and plague, of love and romance, and of two kings? I have attempted to place the army in its political and social setting, and to show how the events in which the regiments were engaged were shaped and influenced not only by the sovereigns but also by the men and women who surrounded them"--Preface.
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Total Pages : 1356 pages
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