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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Catoctin Mountain Park (Md.)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02703932Y
Author : EDMUND F. WEHRLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103386384X
Author : Edmund F. Wehrle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Catoctin Mountain Park (Md.)
ISBN : UOM:39015075616840
Author : Edmund F. Wehrle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Catoctin Mountain Park (Md.)
ISBN : IND:30000116599527
Author : Marc Leepson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466851702
The Battle of Monocacy, which took place on the blisteringly hot day of July 9, 1864, is one of the Civil War's most significant yet little-known battles. What played out that day in the corn and wheat fields four miles south of Frederick, Maryland., was a full-field engagement between some 12,000 battle-hardened Confederate troops led by the controversial Jubal Anderson Early, and some 5,800 Union troops, many of them untested in battle, under the mercurial Lew Wallace, the future author of Ben-Hur. When the fighting ended, some 1,300 Union troops were dead, wounded or missing or had been taken prisoner, and Early---who suffered some 800 casualties---had routed Wallace in the northernmost Confederate victory of the war. Two days later, on another brutally hot afternoon, Monday, July 11, 1864, the foul-mouthed, hard-drinking Early sat astride his horse outside the gates of Fort Stevens in the upper northwestern fringe of Washington, D.C. He was about to make one of the war's most fateful, portentous decisions: whether or not to order his men to invade the nation's capital. Early had been on the march since June 13, when Robert E. Lee ordered him to take an entire corps of men from their Richmond-area encampment and wreak havoc on Yankee troops in the Shenandoah Valley, then to move north and invade Maryland. If Early found the conditions right, Lee said, he was to take the war for the first time into President Lincoln's front yard. Also on Lee's agenda: forcing the Yankees to release a good number of troops from the stranglehold that Gen. U.S. Grant had built around Richmond. Once manned by tens of thousands of experienced troops, Washington's ring of forts and fortifications that day were in the hands of a ragtag collection of walking wounded Union soldiers, the Veteran Reserve Corps, along with what were known as hundred days' men---raw recruits who had joined the Union Army to serve as temporary, rear-echelon troops. It was with great shock, then, that the city received news of the impending rebel attack. With near panic filling the streets, Union leaders scrambled to coordinate a force of volunteers. But Early did not pull the trigger. Because his men were exhausted from the fight at Monocacy and the ensuing march, Early paused before attacking the feebly manned Fort Stevens, giving Grant just enough time to bring thousands of veteran troops up from Richmond. The men arrived at the eleventh hour, just as Early was contemplating whether or not to move into Washington. No invasion was launched, but Early did engage Union forces outside Fort Stevens. During the fighting, President Lincoln paid a visit to the fort, becoming the only sitting president in American history to come under fire in a military engagement. Historian Marc Leepson shows that had Early arrived in Washington one day earlier, the ensuing havoc easily could have brought about a different conclusion to the war. Leepson uses a vast amount of primary material, including memoirs, official records, newspaper accounts, diary entries and eyewitness reports in a reader-friendly and engaging description of the events surrounding what became known as "the Battle That Saved Washington."
Author : Will Irwin
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786735204
The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s. Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and Free French armies to be dropped in teams of three deep behind German lines. There, in preparation for D-Day, they carried out what we now know as unconventional warfare: supporting the French Resistance in guerrilla attacks, supply-route disruption, and the harassment and obstruction of German reinforcements. Always, they operated against extraordinary odds. They had to be prepared to survive pitched battles with German troops and Gestapo manhunts for weeks and months while awaiting the arrival of Allied ground forces. They were, in short, heroes.The Jedburghs finally tells their story and offers a new perspective on D-Day itself. Will Irwin has selected seven of the Jedburgh teams and told their stories as gripping personal narratives. He has gathered archival documents, diaries and correspondence, and interviewed Jed veterans and family members in order to present this portrait of their crucial role - a role recognized by Churchill and Eisenhower - in the struggle to liberate Europe in 1944-45. This is narrative history at its most compelling; a vivid drama of the battle for France from deep behind enemy lines.
Author : Robert E. Perdue (Jr.)
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781449067892
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556038308979
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050392468
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UCSD:31822036371623
"In Rustic, author and photographer Bret Morgan illuminates this much-loved style, giving us the definitive volume on the subject. Comprehensive in scope, Rustic visits twenty retreats that span the breadth of North America and over a century of architectural and social history. They include consummate examples of traditional rustic architecture - including the Ames Gate Lodge, H.H. Richardson's sublime pile of boulders in Massachusetts; Camp Topridge, Marjorie Merriweather Post's compound of drop-dead rustic luxury in the Adirondacks; and the Charles Millard Pratt House in southern California, an exquisite Arts and Crafts winter home designed by Greene & Greene - as well as a varied and inspiring selection of contemporary homes that includes Fortune Rock, George Howe's striking modernist home on the coast of Maine; Robert A.M. Stern's nostalgic Spruce Lodge, hidden high in the Colorado Rockies; and Ledge House, Peter Bohlin's singular masterpiece of rustic modernism in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland." --Book Jacket.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1558 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160813239
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2076 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000091536437
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00067085760
Author : Barry Mackintosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : MINN:31951D025275869
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : NYPL:33433016644084
