Download Full eBooks in PDF
The 10 Most Decisive Battles On American Soil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The 10 Most Decisive Battles On American Soil book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Robert Hallett
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1442029145
Author : R. B. Hallett
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 155448538X
From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, and even during World War II, Americans were called upon to fight for their rights and freedoms.
Author : Glen R. Downey
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Battles
ISBN : 1554483077
"This book discusses how certain decisive battles changed history" (publisher).
Author : Edward Shepherd Creasy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Battles
ISBN : BSB:BSB10595316
Author : Glen Downey
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Battles
ISBN : 155448507X
Oversized books written in the popular top-ten countdown format.
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1492787639
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Includes accounts of the fighting written by the generals of the battles. *Includes maps of the battles. *Explains the causes and chain of events that led to the secession of Southern states and the formation of the Confederacy. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take 4 years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought. Since it did, however, historians and history buffs alike have been studying and analyzing the biggest battles ever since. Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. Since the war's start over 150 years ago, the battles have been subjected to endless debate among historians and the generals themselves. The secession of the South was one of the seminal events in American history, but it also remains one of the most controversial. The election of Abraham Lincoln was the impetus for secession, but that was merely one of many events that led up to the formation of the Confederacy and the start of the Civil War. The Confederacy's hope of being let go in peace ended at 4:30 a.m. on the morning of April 12, 1861, when Confederate Brigadier-General P.G.T. Beauregard ordered the first shots to be fired at the federal garrison defending Fort Sumter in the Charleston Harbor, effectively igniting the Civil War. Today First Bull Run is remembered as the first important land battle of the Civil War, but with over 350 killed on each side, it was the deadliest battle in American history to date, and both the Confederacy and the Union were quickly served notice that the war would be much more costly than either side had believed. The 10 biggest Civil War battles were incredibly bloody, desperate fights that involved the war's most famous figures and determined the fate of several states. All told, over a quarter of a million casualties were inflicted by the two sides during the 10 largest battles, and the fates of the battles and the war itself hung in the balance. Shiloh, Stones River and Chickamauga would all feature Union heroes like Ulysses S. Grant and George H. Thomas preserving Federal control over Tennessee and Kentucky. But during those same periods of time, Robert E. Lee was leading the Army of Northern Virginia to victory over several Union commanders at Fredericksburg, Second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville. Of course, the most famous battles of the war involved the Army of the Potomac blunting Lee's offensives at Antietam and Gettysburg. Antietam was the bloodiest day of the war and forced Lee out of Maryland, allowing Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. The following summer would see the biggest and most famous battle at Gettysburg. Lee would try and fail to dislodge the Union army with attacks on both of its flanks during the second day and Pickett's Charge right down the center of the line on the third and final day. Meade's stout defense held, barely, repulsing each attempted assault, handing the Union a desperately needed victory that ended up being one of the Civil War's turning points. The History of the Civil War comprehensively analyzes the events that brought about the war, the major campaigns and decisive battles, and the aftermath of the nation's deadliest conflict. Accounts of the battles by important generals are included, along with analysis of the generals and fighting. Along with maps of the battle and pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Civil War like you never have before.
Author : Tom Brokaw
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375760419
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American experience, from the centers of power to the most humble corners of the land.” —Tom Brokaw In this beautiful American family album of stories from the Greatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during the Depression and World War II comes alive and is preserved in people’s own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorate important dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlisted in 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March. A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation. Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their war—in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway—as well as their lives on the home front. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, moving on through the war years in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home, this unique book preserves a people’s rich historical heritage and the legacy of a nation’s heroism in war and its courage in peace—in the shaping of their lives and of the world we have today.
Author : Robert Tomes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Battles
ISBN : UOM:39015079996859
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : PSU:000013364649
Author : J. F. C. Fuller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803260032
Believing that our past wars have been a major factor in making this country what it is, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Fuller (1878?1966) presents in this comprehensive study a complete roster of those crucial actions on which our national life has turned. ø A professional soldier, military writer, and historian of international repute, Fuller has written a lucid, nontechnical, and absorbing account of every decisive American battle from Revolutionary times to the outbreak of World War II, including all the historic conflicts that have become epics of American courage and strength, from Trenton and Vicksburg to San Juan Hill and Meuse-Argonne. Each battle is fully described; enlightening information is provided on the military tactics employed, and the historical consequences of each are clearly examined. The author has also provided a cogent synopsis of the years between the decisive battles.
Author : George Henry Townsend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN : BL:A0024417933
Author : M. Evan Brooks
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974608
In 1944 U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair was accidentally killed by USAAF bombers that dropped their bombs short of the target, thus becoming the highest-ranking American casualty of World War II. Union Gen. Daniel Sickels was the first person to be successfully acquitted of murder by pleading temporary insanity after he shot and killed the son of "Star-Spangled Banner" composer Francis Scott Key in cold blood. Ten years before Custer's infamous last stand, U.S. cavalry Capt. William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and led his eighty-man detachment in pursuit of a band of Sioux Indians. Neith.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks
Publisher : Environmental Appeals Board
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063581248
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Contains the Decisions of the Environmental Appeals Board as well as tables of: Cases Reported; Federal Judicial Decisions Cited; Federal Administrative Decisions Cited; Federal Statutes Cited; and Federal Regulations Cited. Includes a subject index. Attorneys, and manufacturers may be interested in this volume. Other products produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can be here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/544
Author : C. I. Hovland,A. A. Lumsdaine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400886807
Volume III in the series Studies in Social Psychology in World War II. The Army proved to be a worldwide laboratory for film research and research on other means of getting across both technical information and indoctrination. Findings are of direct importance to film-makers, educators. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440876523
Providing a kaleidoscope of resources and entries on the people, places, and events that coalesced into the American Revolution, this guide offers a concise introduction to one of the most famous revolutions ever fought. Though the American Revolution is often described within the thematic model of suppression versus freedom, the true significance of the event can be found in its nuances. Explicating complex issues, from slavery and the role of women to matters of diplomacy and strategic warfare, this guide offers comprehensive coverage of the American Revolution without oversimplifying its many facets. Entries on key documents like the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution help readers grasp the full scope of the revolution's catalysts as well as its achievements. Primary source documents also provide access to the revolution as experienced in real-time. Author Spencer C. Tucker, editor of ABC-CLIO's award-winning five-volume set American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, draws on his expertise to prepare the most pertinent entries on the American Revolution that both address its core elements and spur further research.