Journey To The Piedmont Past

Author : Kay Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Natural history
ISBN : OCLC:1249949501

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Journey to the Piedmont Past by Kay Moss Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030126700

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West Peachtree St Extension from Pershing Point to Piedmont Road, Atlanta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Giovanni Cerino Badone
Publisher : From Reason to Revolution
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 191162850X

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You Have to Die in Piedmont! by Giovanni Cerino Badone Pdf

'You have to die in Piedmont ' An old folk song, still played in the western Alps, speaks about the French regiments that were incoming from the Mongeneve Pass in order to attack a combined Austro-Sardinian force entrenched on the Assietta Plateau at 2,500 meters (about 8,200 ft) of elevation in the Cottian Alps, which controls two main roads from France to the Kingdom of Sardinia's capital, Turin. The battle occurred 19 June 1747, and was the bloodiest single day battle not only of the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748) in Italy, but also of the whole military history of the Alps, and of mountain warfare in general. The strategic goal of the French offensive was the siege and the capture of the Fort of Exilles, a fortress in the Susa Valley on the road from Brian on to Turin. An army of about 20,000 soldiers under the command of Louis Charles Armand Fouquet de Belle-Isle (called the Chevalier de Belle-Isle, the younger brother of the Marshal de Belle-Isle) was divided into two corps: one went down the Moncenisio towards Exilles, while the other advanced towards the Chisone Valley, in order to reach the Assietta ridge from the south side. Having predicted that the French would move through it, the King Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy had fortified the area with an entrenched camp garrisoned with 7,000 men of 13 infantry battalions: 9 Sardinian, and 4 Austrian. French intelligence discovered that the allied forces were fortifying the pass, while the main Austrian army had left the siege of Genoa to reach the Alps. So, the decision was taken to attack immediately. The forces involved amounted to 32 French battalions against 13 allied. The French troops were divided into three attacking columns and their movements began at about 16:30 pm. Despite the desperate effort of the soldiers and the personal value of the French officers, all the attacks were repulsed with heavy losses. In a matter of three hours of murderous firefight, five thousand soldiers, out of 27,000 men engaged, were killed, wounded or missing: even the French commander, the Chevalier de Belle-Isle, was killed in the struggle. Since that day, the Battle of Assietta became a sort of military legend for the Sardinian forces, and subsequently for the Italian Army, but no serious attempt to reconstruct the event was ever made. Only the French at the end of the 19th century tried to develop a more detailed study of the struggle by publishing the manuscript written by the Lieutenant-G n ral de Vault in the second half of 18th century. This is therefore the first full work to address the history of this battle.

Author : Richard E. Eller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786491810

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Piedmont Airlines by Richard E. Eller Pdf

Founded by Thomas H. Davis in 1948, Piedmont Airlines was one of the most respected regional airlines of its time. This exhaustive history follows the airline from its humble beginnings at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to its 1989 absorption into USAir after a buyout at the highest price ever commanded by a regional airline. Drawing upon corporate documents, local news stories, and countless personal interviews with former Piedmont employees, the author tells the airline's history in detail. Nearly 100 photographs show the airline's development, and two appendices provide comprehensive lists of its fleet and service destinations. Fully indexed.

Author : David Haward Bain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496235176

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The Old Iron Road by David Haward Bain Pdf

In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America’s past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the author’s grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1889. Between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate, they retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad and large stretches of the Oregon and California trails, and the equally colorful old Lincoln Highway. Following vanished iron rails and wagon wheel ruts, bumping down backroads and main streets, they discovered the deep, restless, uniquely American spirit of adventure that connects our past to our present. A superb writer and an exacting researcher, Bain conjures up a marvelous sense of coming unstuck in time as he lingers in the ghost towns and battlegrounds, prairies and river ports, trainyards, museums, deserts, and diners that line his cruise west to California. Bain encounters a fascinating cast of characters, both historic and contemporary, as well as memories of his grandparents and the journeys that shaped his own heritage. Writing in the tradition of William Least Heat-Moon and Ian Frazier, and with an engaging warmth and a deep grasp of history all his own, Bain has fashioned a quintessentially American journey.

Author : Georgann Eubanks
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780807899526

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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont by Georgann Eubanks Pdf

Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture--insights rarely found in travel guidebooks. Featured authors include O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, and David Sedaris. Literary Trails is an exciting way to see anew the places that you already love and to discover new people and places you hadn't known about. The region's rich literary heritage will surprise and delight all readers.

Author : Timothy P. Grady,Melissa Walker
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611172546

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Recovering the Piedmont Past by Timothy P. Grady,Melissa Walker Pdf

The history of South Carolina’s lowcountry has been well documented by historians, but the upcountry—the region of the state north and west of Columbia and the geologic fall line—has only recently begun to receive extensive scholarly attention. The essays in this collection provide a window into the social and cultural life of the upstate during the nineteenth century. The contributors explore topics ranging from the history of education in the region to the pugnacity of the Scots-Irish, from post–Civil War occupation by Union troops to upcountry tourism, from the Freedman’s Bureau’s efforts to educate African Americans to the complex dynamics of lynch mobs in the late nineteenth century. Recovering the Piedmont Past illustrates larger trends of social transformation occurring in the region at a time that shaped religion, education, race relations and the economy well into the twentieth century. The essays add depth and complexity to our understanding of nineteenth century southern history and challenge accepted narratives about a homogeneous South. Ultimately each of the eight essays explores little known facets of the history of upcountry South Carolina in the nineteenth century. The collection includes a foreword by Orville Vernon Burton, professor of history and director of the Cyberinstitute at Clemson University.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030120869

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Marian Road Development from Piedmont Road to Buford Hwy, Atlanta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030121818

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GA-400 Extension, Atlanta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eli Bowen
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : History
ISBN : YALE:39002003904696

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Rambles in the Path of the Steam-horse by Eli Bowen Pdf

A description of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.

Author : Kay Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1611172594

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Seeking the Historical Cook by Kay Moss Pdf

"A guide to historical cooking techniques from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century receipt (recipe) books and an examination of how those methods can be used in kitches today"--Dust jacket.

Author : United States. Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UCAL:B2939177

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Civil Aeronautics Board Reports by United States. Civil Aeronautics Board Pdf

Author : Lewis Cheeseman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : BL:A0019569086

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Differences Between Old and New School Presbyterians by Lewis Cheeseman Pdf

Author : John Wise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015076015208

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Through the Air by John Wise Pdf

Author : James C. Burke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786486748

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The Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company, 1833-1854 by James C. Burke Pdf

In 1833, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company set out to connect the port city of Wilmington to North Carolina's capital. When it was done in 1840, after changing its route, the company had completed 161 miles of track--the longest railroad in the world at the time--and provided continuous transportation from the town of Weldon on the Roanoke River to Wilmington and on to Charleston, South Carolina, by steamboat. A marvel of civil engineering by the standards of the day, the railroad constituted a tour de force of organization, finance and political will that risked the fortunes of individuals and the credit of the state. This study chronicles the project from its inception, exploring its impact on subsequent railroad development in North Carolina and its significance within the context of American railroad history as a whole.