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Author : David Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Clans
ISBN : BML:37001102052870
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:877253931
Author : David STEWART (Major-General.),A. M.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504717252
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990989047
Author : David Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:831380030
Author : David Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633678289
Author : David Stewart
Publisher : Edinburgh : A. Constable ; London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green : Hurst, Robinson
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0665540574
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555021042
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008369923
Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199756674
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.
Author : Tim Newark
Publisher : Constable
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849012317
'Highlanders have long been among the most feared soldiers in the world and Tim Newark's book admirably tells their stirring tale. A great read!' Bernard Cornwell On the fields of Waterloo, the deserts of Sudan, the Plains of Abraham and the mountains of Dargai, the trenches of Flanders and the jungles of Burma - the great Highland regiments made their mark. The brave kilted troops with their pipes and drums were legendary, whether leading the charge into the thick of battle or standing fast, the last to leave or fall, fighting against the odds. Acclaimed historian Tim Newark tells the story of the Highlanders through the words of the soldiers themselves, from diaries, letters and journals uncovered from archives in Scotland and around the world. At the Battle of Quebec in 1759, only a few years after their defeat at Culloden, the 78th Highlanders faced down the French guns and turned the battle. At Waterloo, Highlanders memorably fought alongside the Scots Greys against Napoleon's feared Old Guard. In the Crimea, the thin red line stood firm against the charging Russian Hussars and saved the day at Balaclava. Yet the story is also one of betrayal. At Quebec, General Wolfe remarked that, despite the Highlanders' courage, it was 'no great mischief if they fall'. At Dunkirk in May 1940, the 51st Regiment was left to defend the SOE evacuation at St Valery; though following D-Day the Highlanders were at the forefront of the fighting through France. It is all history: over the last decade the historic regiments have been dismantled, despite widespread protest. Praise for The Mafia at War: An engrossing history that reads like a thriller. 'The Godfather' meets 'Band of Brothers'. Andrew Roberts An engrossing account that has the read-on factor of the finest thriller. James Holland Newark tells an extraordinary tale with pace and conviction, and impressively unravels what really happened from the pervasive myths. History Today
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UFL:31262058468421
Author : Samuel Greatheed,Daniel Parken,Theophilus Williams,Josiah Conder,Thomas Price,Jonathan Edwards Ryland,Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : English literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101076404530
Author : John G. Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780773568907
The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording an important aspect of Gaelic culture before it disappears, John Gibson chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that have survived in the New World. Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of piping. Following the path of Scottish emigrants, Gibson traces the history of bagpiping in the New World and uncovers examples of late eighteenth-century traditional bagpiping and dance in Gaelic Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He argues that these anachronistic cultural forms provide a vital link to the vanished folk music and culture of the Scottish highlanders. This definitive study throws light on the ways pipers and piping contributed to social integration in the days of the clan system and on the decline in Scottish Gaelic culture following the abolition of clans. It also illuminates the cultural problems faced by all ethnic minorities assimilated into unitary multinational societies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : England
ISBN : UCD:31175012026301