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Book Synopsis Through a Howling Wilderness by : Thomas A. Desjardin
Download or read book Through a Howling Wilderness written by Thomas A. Desjardin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great military history about the early days of the American Revolution, Thomas A. Desjardin's Through a Howling Wilderness is also a timeless adventure narrative that tells of heroic acts, men pitted against nature's fury, and a fledgling nation's fight against a tyrannical oppressor. Before Benedict Arnold was branded a traitor, he was one of the colonies' most valuable leaders. In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Massachusetts, bound for the Maine wilderness. They had volunteered for a secret mission, under Arnold's command to march and paddle nearly two hundred miles and seize British Quebec. Before they reached the Canadian border, hundreds died, a hurricane destroyed canoes and equipment and many deserted. In the midst of a howling blizzard, the remaining troops attacked Quebec and almost took Canada from the British simultaneously weakening the British hand against Washington. With the enigmatic Benedict Arnold at its center, Desjardin has written one of the great American adventure stories.
Book Synopsis Through the Howling Wilderness by : Gary D. Joiner
Download or read book Through the Howling Wilderness written by Gary D. Joiner and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Howling Wilderness is replete with in-depth coverage on the geography of the region, the Congressional hearings after the Campaign, and the Confederate defenses in the Red River Valley.
Book Synopsis Howling Wilderness by : Janet E. Nelson Rupert
Download or read book Howling Wilderness written by Janet E. Nelson Rupert and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Oliver Spencer was a Revolutionary War hero forced by post-war poverty to homestead in the -far West,- in the Ohio Valley. This was a dangerous proposition, since Native Americans were numerous and still in possession of the land. In this true story, the American government tried several times to wrest the land in Ohio from the Indians, but the natives spectacularly defeated the first of the military expeditions sent against them. Then Wapawaqua, an Iroquois living with Shawnee Indians, kidnapped the Colonel's son, ten-year-old Ollie Spencer, as the boy returned home from a Fourth of July celebration at Fort Washington in Cincinnati in 1792. This begins the boy's journey to becoming Indian while living with an Iroquois medicine woman and spiritualist, before his eventual rescue through diplomatic means with the aid of President Washington. Even then, the boy's adventure was not over as he began a circuitous and dangerous journey home. Finally, we learn how Ollie and his captors spent the rest of their lives, with the natives eventually fighting on the American side in the War of 1812 and their journey to a reservation in Kansas.
Book Synopsis Howling Wilderness by : Ulysses Namon
Download or read book Howling Wilderness written by Ulysses Namon and published by selfpublishing.com. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Howling Wilderness by : Loren K. Wiseman
Download or read book Howling Wilderness written by Loren K. Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Home in the Howling Wilderness by : Peter Holland
Download or read book Home in the Howling Wilderness written by Peter Holland and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 19th century, New Zealand's South Island underwent an environmental transformation at the hands of European settlers. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertilizer. Through various letter books, ledgers, diaries, and journals, this book reveals how the first European settlers learned about their new environment: talking to Maori and other Pakeha, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of rabbits, reading newspapers, and going to lectures at the Mechanics' Institute. As the New Zealand environment threw up surprise after surprise, the settlers who succeeded in farming were those who listened closely to the environment. This rich and detailed contribution to environmental history and the literature of British colonial history and farming concludes—contrary to the assertions of some North American environmental historians—that the first generation of European settlers in New Zealand were by no means unthinking agents of change.
Book Synopsis March to Quebec by : Kenneth Lewis Roberts
Download or read book March to Quebec written by Kenneth Lewis Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Howling Wilderness by : Janet Rupert
Download or read book Howling Wilderness written by Janet Rupert and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ollie saw Mr. Light spring suddenly into the river and the stranger at the stern falling over toward the shore. In the next moment, he heard the sharp crack of two rifles in instant succession, the sound lagging the bullets, and looked toward the willows about ten yards above him. He saw through the thick smoke of their guns two Indians with faces painted black as midnight (a symbol they were ready to die), rushing toward the canoe. Never would Ollie forget his feelings at that moment. For an instant he stood motionless, and then he involuntarily drew down his head between his shoulders. His brief reflection was, I have made some narrow escapes, but now death is inevitable.One Indian, Wapawaqua, was now within ten feet of him. In his right hand was the uplifted tomahawk, and in his left, the naked scalping knife. Instantly wheeling, Ollie ran toward the water, hoping to reach the canoe and push out into the river. The Indian passed above him down to the shore and struck his tomahawk into the head of the unfortunate stranger. Seizing him by the hair, he passed his knife quickly around the scalp and tore it violently off, holding it up for a moment with fiendish exultation. Finding he could not gain the canoe which by this time had got out into the current, Ollie turned from the heart-sickening sight of the mangled man. Dreading every moment a similar fate, he next attempted to run down the river in the vain hope of escaping. He had not gone ten steps when discovering his design, the other Indian easily headed him. Instead, however, of seizing him violently, he approached within a few feet and extended his hand in token of peace. Ollie took it. Feeling assured of present safety from what he had heard of the character and customs of Indians, he became at once calm. The whole of these events occupied no more than thirty seconds. Ten-year-old Ollie was with the Shawnee for a mere six months. During that time he learned their language, witnessed their ceremonies and spirituality, learned to hunt and live off the land, and was close to being completely integrated into his new family and culture; close to "becoming Indian."Oliver (O.M.) Spencer was born in New Jersey in 1781. Known as Ollie as a youth, he was the son of Colonel Oliver Spencer, a wealthy tanner and noted Revolutionary War officer, and Anne Spencer, the daughter of Robert Ogden, who headed the New Jersey Assembly before the war. Due to post-war poverty, when Ollie was nine years of age, his family went west to the new villages of Columbia and Cincinnati to make a living from farming. This was a dangerous enterprise, as the local natives were still numerous and in possession of the land. Ollie was one of many thousands of settlers who Native Americans kidnapped. Doing so enabled them to replenish their numbers, depleted by war deaths and illnesses, while they battled for their land. The natives were particularly fond of taking children and bringing them up as their own. Most of the children taken, after a year or two with the natives, never wanted to return to "white life."Included in this story are the wars leading up to the time of Ollie's capture and the final battle that defeated the Shawnee in Ohio. In the last chapters we follow not only Ollie's adult life but the lives of his two captors on the side of the Americans in the War of 1812, their life on the Lewistown Reservation, and ultimately, their journey west to a new reservation.
Book Synopsis Lovewell's Town by : Robert C. Williams
Download or read book Lovewell's Town written by Robert C. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the history of the town of Lovell, Maine, this volume follows the settlement from the survey of the Merrimack River in 1652 through the famous battle at Pequawket in 1725 to the current struggle between the forces of development and preservation.
Book Synopsis An Observer in the Philippines by : John Bancroft Devins
Download or read book An Observer in the Philippines written by John Bancroft Devins and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benedict Arnold's Army by : Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Download or read book Benedict Arnold's Army written by Arthur S. Lefkowitz and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “brilliant” account of Benedict Arnold’s military campaign to bring Canada into the Revolutionary War is “hard to put down”—includes maps (Mag Web). In 1775, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand men through the Maine wilderness in order to reach Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada. His goal was to reach the fortress city and bring Canada into the Revolutionary War as the fourteenth colony. When George Washington learned of a route to Quebec that followed a chain of rivers and lakes through the Maine wilderness, he picked Col. Benedict Arnold to command the surprise assault. The route to Canada was 270 miles of rapids, waterfalls, and dense forests that took months to traverse. Arnold led his famished corps through early winter snow and waist-high freezing water, up and over the Appalachian Mountains, and finally, to Quebec. In Benedict Arnold’s Army, award-winning author Arthur S. Lefkowitz traces the troops’ grueling journey, examining Arnold’s character at the time and how this campaign influenced him later in the Revolutionary War. After multiple trips to the route Arnold’s army took, Lefkowitz also includes detailed information and maps for readers to follow the expedition’s route from the coast of Main to Quebec City.
Book Synopsis A Home in the Howling Wilderness by : Peter Holland
Download or read book A Home in the Howling Wilderness written by Peter Holland and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand's South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand's ecological transformation. Did the settlers pursue farming regardless of the ecological consequences? Did they impose European plants, animals and farming methods on a very different environment? And did their efforts lead to the erosion, rabbit plagues and declining soil fertility of the late nineteenth century? Drawing on letter books and ledgers, diaries and journals, Peter Holland reveals how the first European settlers learned about their new environment: talking to Maori and other Pakeha, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of rabbits, reading newspapers and going to lectures at the Mechanics' Institute. Examining the knowledge they built up by these routes, Holland lays out how the settlers grappled with droughts and floods, worked out which plants and animals made sense, and worked out how to beat erosion and rabbits. As the New Zealand environment threw up surprise after surprise, the settlers who succeeded in farming were those who listened closely to the environment. They learned to predict weather more accurately, to farm differently with different soil types, to use different techniques of land management. In its depth and breadth of research, and with a visual component of 16 photographs and 22 figures, Home in the Howling Wilderness is a major new account of Pakeha and the land in New Zealand.
Book Synopsis Monopolies and the People. by D. C. Cloud. by : D. C. Cloud
Download or read book Monopolies and the People. by D. C. Cloud. written by D. C. Cloud and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1873 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel by : Jennifer Linhart Wood
Download or read book Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel written by Jennifer Linhart Wood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period. Using the concept of the soundwave as a vibratory, uncanny, and transformative force, Jennifer Linhart Wood examines how sounds of foreign otherness are experienced and interpreted in cross-cultural interactions around the globe. Many of these same sounds are staged in the sonic laboratory of the English theater: rattles were shaken at Whitehall Palace and in Brazil; bells jingled in an English masque and in the New World; the Dallam organ resounded at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul and at King’s College, Cambridge; and the drum thundered across India and throughout London theaters. This book offers a new way to conceptualize intercultural contact by arguing that sounds of otherness enmesh bodies and objects in assemblages formed by sonic events, calibrating foreign otherness with the familiar self on the same frequency of vibration.
Book Synopsis Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve by : Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham
Download or read book Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve written by Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa by : Rachel King
Download or read book Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa written by Rachel King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts, and object collections to explore different facets of how disorderly figures were shaped through impressions of places and material culture as much as actual transgression. Addressing themes from mobility to wilderness, historiography to violence, resistance to development, King details the world that raiders made over the last two centuries in southern Africa while also critiquing scholars’ tools for describing this world. Offering inter-disciplinary perspectives on the past in Africa’s southernmost mountains, this book grapples with concepts relevant to those interested in rule-breakers and rule-makers, both in Africa and the wider world.
Book Synopsis The Howling Storm by : Kenneth W. Noe
Download or read book The Howling Storm written by Kenneth W. Noe and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Lincoln Prize! Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth W. Noe suggests it should instead be understood as a war between the North, the South, and the weather. In The Howling Storm, Noe retells the history of the conflagration with a focus on the ways in which weather and climate shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns. He further contends that events such as floods and droughts affecting the Confederate home front constricted soldiers’ food supply, lowered morale, and undercut the government’s efforts to boost nationalist sentiment. By contrast, the superior equipment and open supply lines enjoyed by Union soldiers enabled them to cope successfully with the South’s extreme conditions and, ultimately, secure victory in 1865. Climate conditions during the war proved unusual, as irregular phenomena such as El Niño, La Niña, and similar oscillations in the Atlantic Ocean disrupted weather patterns across southern states. Taking into account these meteorological events, Noe rethinks conventional explanations of battlefield victories and losses, compelling historians to reconsider long-held conclusions about the war. Unlike past studies that fault inflation, taxation, and logistical problems for the Confederate defeat, his work considers how soldiers and civilians dealt with floods and droughts that beset areas of the South in 1862, 1863, and 1864. In doing so, he addresses the foundational causes that forced Richmond to make difficult and sometimes disastrous decisions when prioritizing the feeding of the home front or the front lines. The Howling Storm stands as the first comprehensive examination of weather and climate during the Civil War. Its approach, coverage, and conclusions are certain to reshape the field of Civil War studies.
