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The Portsmouth Guide Or A Description Of The Ancient And Present State Of The Place
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Book Synopsis The Portsmouth Guide; Or, a Description of the Ancient and Present State of the Place; ... To which is Added, Some Account of the Isle of Wight, ... by :
Download or read book The Portsmouth Guide; Or, a Description of the Ancient and Present State of the Place; ... To which is Added, Some Account of the Isle of Wight, ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Portsmouth Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society (Southampton, England) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :486 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Papers and Proceedings by : Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society (Southampton, England)
Download or read book Papers and Proceedings written by Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society (Southampton, England) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Incendiary written by Jessica Warner and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1776 and 1777, during the American Revolution, a young Scot known only as John the Painter took his war to England by committing acts of terror in the dockyards of the mighty British navy. This is the first full-length biography of that brilliant but disturbed young man. His story offers chilling parallels to the present – and insights into why certain young men are driven to commit unspeakable crimes. Warner has written a book of history that reads like a picaresque novel, but always with a modern twist. Its hero travels to France and receives the blessing of the American envoy there. King George III offers a reward for his capture. Bow Street Runners are sent out inpursuit. Newspapers print sensational stories. A bill to suspend habeas corpus is rushed through Parliament and American privateers – the unlawful combatants of their day – are held without being charged. The Incendiary takes readers on a fascinating journey from Europe to colonial America and finally to the gallows at Portsmouth. In this atmospheric and deftly researched tale of a young man who tried to bring down a superpower, Warner has crafted a popular history with contemporary implications.
Book Synopsis Proceedings by : Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society
Download or read book Proceedings written by Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tourist's Guide Round Southampton; Describing the Ancient and Present State of Winchester, Lymington, Christchurch, Gosport, and Portsmouth, Etc by : Southampton
Download or read book The Tourist's Guide Round Southampton; Describing the Ancient and Present State of Winchester, Lymington, Christchurch, Gosport, and Portsmouth, Etc written by Southampton and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-century England by : Rosemary Sweet
Download or read book The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-century England written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an analysis of 18th-century urban culture and local historical scholarship. The author shows how a sense of the past was crucial not only in instilling civic pride and shaping a sense of community, but also in informing contests for power and influence in the local community.
Download or read book The Bounty written by Caroline Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.
Download or read book Mansfield Park written by Jane Austen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion and vanity' Margaret Drabble Jane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at Mansfield Park, the home of her wealthy plantation-owning uncle. She finds comfort in her love for her cousin Edmund, until the arrival of charismatic outsiders from London throws life at the house into disarray and brings dangerous desires to the surface. Mansfield Park is Austen's most complex work; a powerful portrayal of change and continuity, scandalous misdemeanours and true integrity. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kathryn Sutherland
Book Synopsis British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by : Sheldon Samuel Cohen
Download or read book British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 written by Sheldon Samuel Cohen and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'. This overstatement has since been modified in comprehensive histories of the American Revolution. Gradually a more balanced portrait of British attitudes towards the conflict has emerged. In particular, studies of pro-American Britons have exemplified this fact by concentrating on only a small upper-class minority. In contrast, this work focuses on five unrenowned men of Britain's `middling orders'. These individuals actively endeavoured to aid the American cause. Their efforts, often unlawful, brought them into contact with Benjamin Franklin, for whom they befriended rebel seamen confined in British gaols. Their stories - rendered here - open up new areas for study of the American War on this middling segment of Britain's social structure.
Book Synopsis The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County by : John Britton
Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Beauties of England and Wales by :
Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catastrophe at Spithead by : Hilary L Rubinstein
Download or read book Catastrophe at Spithead written by Hilary L Rubinstein and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most sensational and perplexing incidents in naval history, Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, a much-voyaged veteran and outstanding officer, drowned along with more than 800 crew and many civilian visitors, male and female, on a calm summer’s morning and in a familiar anchorage. This new work examines that tragedy – the sudden capsizing at Spithead on 29 August 1782 of the mighty flagship HMS Royal George. This is the first comprehensive account of the calamity and is based on a wide variety of contemporary sources, including reports by survivors and eyewitnesses. It discusses such issues as how and why she sank; on whom, if anyone, the blame should fall; the number and nature of the casualties; and the disaster's impact on the nation's psyche, including its treatment in literature. In its pages are encountered, by name and fate, some of the hitherto anonymous seamen who were on the ship and who lived to become the last remaining survivors; these included the only woman to be picked up alive, out of perhaps 300 who were on board. As well as describing the sinking, the book provides information never before uncovered on the life and career of Kempenfelt, whose flagship Royal George was, ranging from his hitherto unknown maternal ancestry (through which it is shown that he was related to his great contemporary, Admiral Rodney) to accounts of his whereabouts when the ship sank. These call into question the now-set-in-stone scenario in William Cowper's famous poem, which depicts Kempenfelt writing in his cabin when she foundered. Although the Royal George has receded from national memory in recent years, the tragedy was for a long time front and centre in representations of British naval culture, and this absorbing account – part detective story, part historical narrative – will bring to a new audience an extraordinary tale from the heyday of Britain’s naval power.
Book Synopsis Yankee Sailors in British Gaols by : Sheldon Samuel Cohen
Download or read book Yankee Sailors in British Gaols written by Sheldon Samuel Cohen and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yankee Sailors in British Gaols offers the first comprehensive account of American servicemen detained within the confines of Mill and Forton prisons, the principal land-based detention centers in Britain during the American Revolution. Forton and Mill during the course of the War of Independence held approximately 3,000 American prisoners, almost all of them naval personnel. In a few cases, these American prisoners were incarcerated for more than four years, a longer recorded period of incarceration in overseas prisons than in any United States war prior to Vietnam. Professor Cohen's examination of wide-ranging and widely scattered primary and secondary sources provides an extraordinarily detailed picture of life within the closed society of each prison, as well as insight into the various ways in which Britons and Americans outside the prisons provided legal and extralegal help to the rebel detainees."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc by :
Download or read book Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mansfield Park written by Austen and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
