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Author : Archibald Alison
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Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book The Military Life of John, Duke of Marlborough written by Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archibald Alison
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ISBN 13 : 9781330656785
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book The Military Life of John, Duke of Marlborough (Classic Reprint) written by Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Military Life of John, Duke of Marlborough Consummate as were the abilities, unbroken the success, immense the services of the Duke of Marlborough, the details of his campaigns can scarcely be said to be known to the vast majority of his countrymen. They have heard the distant echo of his fame, as they have that of the exploits of Timour, of Bajazet, and of Genghis Khan; the names of Blenheim and Ramillies, of Malplaquet and Oudenarde awaken a transient feeling of exultation in their bosoms; but as to the particulars of these events, the difficulties with which their general had to struggle, the objects for which he contended, even the places where they occurred, they are, for the most part, as ignorant as they are of similar details in the campaigns of Baber or Aurengzebe. What they do know is derived chiefly, if not entirely, from the histories of their enemies. Malice and party spirit have done much dim the reputation of the illustrious general in his own country, but these disturbing passions have not been felt in other states; and, strange to say, no adequate opinion of his merits can be formed by his countrymen but by viewing the impression he has made on her enemies, or studying the history of his victories by them. Marlborough's exploits have made a prodigious impression on the Continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David G. Chandler
Publisher : London : B.T. Batsford
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Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Marlborough as Military Commander written by David G. Chandler and published by London : B.T. Batsford. This book was released on 1973 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Søgeord: Vauban; Douai; Bouchain; Blenheim; Frandern; Preussen; Taktik; Strategi; Art of War; Willian af Orange; William III; Englands Historie; Doktriner; General Winthers;Duc de Vendome; Duc de Villars; Franske Hær; Engelske Hær; Grand Alliance; Aftaler; Traktater; Turenne; First, Second Partition; Peace of Utrechyt; Holland; Spanien; St John, Henry; General Schulenburg; Rhinen; Tilly; Torcy, Colbert de; War of the Nine Years; Store Nordiske Krig; Tredive Års Krigen; 30-års-krigen; Third Dutch War; Religionskrige; Regimentshistorie; Parker, R.; Philip oof Anjou; Earl of Oxford; Monmouth; Namur; Low Countries; Spanish Netherlands; Prince of Orange; Hamilton, George; Maubeuge; Comte de Marsin; Menin; Comte ;erode-Westerloo; Campaigns of 1710-1711; Campagns of 1708, 1709, 1707, 1706, 1705, 1704, 1702-1703; Maastricht; Louis XIV; Lille; Liege; Leopold I; de Lamotte; Landau; Joseph I; James III; James II; Hague; Hanover; Heinsius, A.; Prins Frederik af Hesse-Cassel; Godopphin, Sidney; Eugene of Savoy; Ghent; Holy Roman Empire; Køln; Karl XII; Ærkehertug Charles, Charles III of Spain, VI of Austria; de Boufflers; Louis, Duke of Burgundy; Cadogan, William, 1st Earl of; James Fitz-James, Duke of Cadogan; Max Emanuel of Bavaria; Barcelona; Louis of Baden; Tyske Markgrever; Queen Anne
Author : Sir Winston Churchill
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Download or read book Marlborough written by Sir Winston Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book The Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Childs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144112392X
Total Pages : 294 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 294 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.
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1166 pages
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Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Stephen Saunders Webb
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030017859X
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Marlborough's America written by Stephen Saunders Webb and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of “salutary neglect,” but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist, coercive, and aggressive, owing to the vigorous leadership of career army officers, trained and nominated to American government by the captain general of the allied armies, the first duke of Marlborough, and that his influence, and that of his legates, prevailed through the entire century in America. Webb’s work follows the duke, whom an eloquent enemy described as “the greatest statesman and the greatest general that this country or any other country has produced,” his staff and soldiers, through the ten campaigns, which, by defanging France, made the union with Scotland possible and made “Great Britain” preeminent in the Atlantic world. Then Webb demonstrates that the duke’s legates transformed American colonies into provinces of empire. Marlborough’s America, fifty years in the making, is the fourth volume of The Governors-General.
Author : Paul Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195342356
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Masters of the Battlefield written by Paul Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue of history's greatest military leaders - from the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era - and what drove them to victory.
Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574193
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, the Companion also lists many minor writers whose work might otherwise have been overlooked in any survey of Scottish literature. Also included here are entries on the lives of other more peripheral writers such as historians, philosophers, diarists and divines whose work has made a contribution to Scottish letters. Other essays range over such general subjects as the principal work of major writers, literary movements, historical events, the world of printing and publishing, folklore, journalism, drama and Gaelic. A feature of the book is the inclusion of the bibliography of each writer and reference to the major critical works. This comprehensive guide is an essential tool for the serious student of Scottish literature as well as being an ideal guide and companion for the general reader.
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Author : Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795329881
Total Pages : 634 pages
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Download or read book Marlborough: His Life and Times, 1933 written by Winston S. Churchill and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prime minister and Nobel Prize–winning historian begins his four-volume biography of the British statesman John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. In the first volume of this ambitious and stunningly written biography, Sir Winston S. Churchill discusses the early career and stratospheric rise of his illustrious, seventeenth century ancestor. John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, may have been eclipsed in history by his more well-known descendant, but in his time, Marlborough was considered one of England’s foremost military and political leaders. This first installment pays particular attention to personal details of Marlborough’s life, and the important role several women played in his success—including his sister, his wife, the Duchess of Cleveland, and Queen Anne herself. Churchill breathes life into these personal connections in order to showcase Marlborough not only as a luminary figure in British history, but also to bring him to life once again in the mind of the reader. “A sustained meditation on statecraft and war by the greatest war leader of our time.” —Foreign Affairs “The greatest historical work written in our century, an inexhaustible mine of political wisdom and understanding, which should be required reading for every student of political science.” —Leo Strauss
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Author : Andrew Dewar Gibb
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848324316
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book With Winston Churchill at the Front written by Andrew Dewar Gibb and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and absorbing account of Churchill’s life during World War I, as written by his battalion’s adjutant who would later become his friend. Following his resignation from the Government after the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill’s political career stalled. Never one to give in, Churchill was determined to continue fighting the enemy. He was already a Major in the Territorial Reserve and he was offered promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and with it command of a battalion on the Western Front. On 5 January 1916, Churchill took up his new post with the 6th (Service) Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. The battalion’s adjutant was Captain Andrew Dewar Gibb who formed a close relationship with Churchill that lasted far beyond their few weeks together in the war. Dewar Gibb subsequently wrote an account of his and Churchill’s time together in the trenches. Packed with amusing anecdotes and fascinating detail, Gibb’s story shows an entirely different side to Churchill’s character from the forceful public figure normally presented to the world. Churchill proved to be a caring and compassionate commander and utterly fearless. Despised on his arrival, he was adored by his men by the time he departed . . . Supplemented with many of Churchill’s letters, the observations of other officers and additional narrative, this is the most unusual and absorbing account of this part of Churchill’s life that has ever been told. Praise for With Winston Churchill at the Front “A good book for anyone interested in Churchill, and also for those who might want to learn more about command at the front during the Great War.” —The NYMAS Review “This is a view of Churchill different from every episode in his memorable life.” —Roads to the Great War
