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Looks at the Corsican general's rise to power in France, the impact of his quest for conquest on the changing face of Europe, the seminal events of the period, and the lives of key personalities and their roles during this time.
Author : Frederick Kagan
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2006-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306811371
Looks at the Corsican general's rise to power in France, the impact of his quest for conquest on the changing face of Europe, the seminal events of the period, and the lives of key personalities and their roles during this time.
Author : Alan Schom
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
ISBN :
Presents the battle of Trafalgar in it's historical scope and context. Quotes extensively from journals and sources and brings to life the whole story of the British-French conflict, at sea and on land, at the dawn of the nineteenth century.
Author : Great Britain. Army. Volunteers
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 1805
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Donald W. Meinig
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0295805196
Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is the story of its transformation. Meinig traces all of the aspects of its development by combining geographic description with historical narrative.
Author : Alec Gilpin
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2002-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1628952563
The present State of Michigan had one of the longest territorial periods in the continental United Sates. The Great Lakes boardering Michigan were an asset for early trading, but a deterrent to inland settlement. This is the first book concerned solely with the history of the territory.
Author : Cook Inlet Historical Society
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780295975832
Saluting an era of adventure and knowledge seeking, fifteen original essays consider the motivations of European explorers of the Pacific, the science and technology of 18th-century exploration, and the significance of Spanish, French, and British voyages. Among the topics discussed are the quest by enlightenment scientists for new species of plant and animal life, and their fascination with Native cultures; advances in shipbuilding, navigation, medicine, and diet that made extended voyages possible; and the lasting significance of the explorers’ collections, artworks, and journals.
Author : Wendell Phillips Garrison
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : Robert Goetz
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473894239
This in-depth study of The Battle of Austerlitz, considered Napoleon’s greatest victory, won the Napoleon Foundation’s History Grand Prize. Sometimes called The Battle of Three Emperors, Napoleon’s victory against the combined forces of Russia and Austria brought a decisive end to The War of the Third Coalition. The magnitude of the French achievement against a larger army was met by sheer amazement and delirium in Paris, where just days earlier the nation had been teetering on the brink of financial collapse. In 1805: Austerlitz, historian Robert Goetz demonstrates how Napoleon and his Grande Armée of 1805 defeated a formidable professional army that had fought the French armies on equal terms five years earlier. Goetz analyses the planning of the opposing forces and details the course of the battle hour by hour, describing the fierce see-saw battle around Sokolnitz, the epic struggle for the Pratzen Heights, the dramatic engagement between the legendary Lannes and Bagration in the north, and the widely misunderstood clash of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard and Alexander’s Imperial Leib-Guard. Goetz’s detailed and balanced assessment of the battle exposes many myths that have been perpetuated and even embellished in other accounts.
Author : Florian Richter
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781912174812
In the first of a potential new series Florian Richter presents color profile models of every ship on both sides in this epic battle. In a change to previous paper soldier titles, these ships can be cut straight out of the book to create the British, French and Spanish fleets.
Author : Eric Sloane
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0486463044
Excerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England.