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Marines in World War II, Commemorative SeriesFrom Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific WarIn February 1942, Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, ordered the creation of a new unit designated the 1st Marine Raider Battalion. This elite force, and its three sister battalions, went...
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Marines in World War II, Commemorative SeriesA Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake IslandIt is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion are starting another day of the backbreaking war preparations...
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Marines in World War II, Commemorative SeriesFirst Offensive: The Marine Campaign for GuadalcanalIn the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands triggered a demand for offensive action in the South Pacific. The leading offensive advocate...
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Marines in World War II, Commemorative SeriesTop of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern SolomonsAssault landings began for the men in the blackness of the early hours of the morning. On 1 November 1943, the troops of the 3d Marine Division were awakened before 0400, went to General Quarters...
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Chap-books of the Eighteenth CenturyChap-books of the Eighteenth Century - With Facsimiles, Notes, and IntroductionAlthough these Chap-books are very curious, and on many accounts interesting, no attempt has yet been made to place them before the public in a collected form, accompanied by the characteristic engravings, without which...
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Pioneer Imprints from Fifty StatesPioneer Imprints from Fifty StatesPioneer Imprints From Fifty States will enable readers to view the Library of Congress collections from an unaccustomed angle. It takes for its subject the Library's earliest examples of printing from within present-day boundaries of each State in the Union,...
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Non-Criminal PrisonsNon-Criminal Prisons - English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other LandsTHE word prison connotes crime; a place of punishment and detention where misdeeds are expiated and penalties enforced. A certain sense of...
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Speaking of the TurksSpeaking of the TurksWE were arriving at Constantinople, my native city, from which I had been absent nearly ten years. I had been in America all this time. At first my business interests and later the general war had prevented my coming back to...
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Lion and Dragon in Northern ChinaLion and Dragon in Northern ChinaLess than a dozen years have passed since the guns of British warships first saluted the flag of their country at the Chinese port of Weihaiwei, yet it is nearly a century since the white ensign was seen there...
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The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon part 2The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; part 2THE present volume, which has been selected for issue by the Hakluyt Society, contains the Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru, by Pedro de Cieza de Leon. The First Part formed one of the...
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Memorias de un hombre de acción, tomo 2El Escuadrón del BriganteNota del Transcriptor: Se ha respetado la ortografa y la acentuacin del original. Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. La portada fue diseada por el transcriptor y se considera dominio pblico El aprendiz de...
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Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2)Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2)Anti-Corn Bill riots Riots in the north Ratification of the Treaty of Peace with America Attempt to steal the Crown Epithets applied to Napoleon The Prince of Wales' debts 1 News of the Battle of Waterloo...
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The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, - contained in the first part of his Chronicle of PeruTHE work of Pedro de Cieza de Leon is, in many respects, one of the most remarkable literary productions of the age of Spanish...
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The Quest of GloryThe Quest of Glory This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated with a Transcribers Note....
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireDOUBLE CLICK ON THE "More Files" OPTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PG CATALOG PAGE LISTING TO FIND THE "Files" DIRECTORY. DOUBLE CLICK ON THIS TO OPEN THE DIRECTORY OF THE AUDIO FILES. Let me...
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The Scientific Tourist through IrelandThe Scientific Tourist through Ireland - in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesqueThis interesting country becoming every day more and more the subject of inquiry and personal investigation, an Hibernian Tourist's Guide consequently forms...
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France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol 2: A Half-Century of ConflictFrance and England in North America, Part VII, Vol 2: A Half-Century of Conflict The Western Sea.Schemes for reaching it.Journey of Charlevoix.The Sioux Mission.Varennes de la Vrendrye: his Enterprise; his Disasters; visits the Mandans; his Sons; their Search for the Western Sea; their Adventures.The...
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The Dardanelles: Colour Sketches From GallipoliThe Dardanelles: Colour Sketches From GallipoliBefore entering upon the subject of this chapter I cannot help a passing allusion to the lack of pictorial records of this warrecords made by artists of experience, who actually witness the scenes they portray. I do not lose...
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The Missionary: An Indian Tale vol. IIThe Missionary: An Indian Tale; vol. IIIT was the season of visitation of the Guru of Cashmire to his granddaughter. The Missionary beheld him with his train approach her abode of peace, and felt the necessity of absenting himself from the consecrated grove, where...
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The Missionary: An Indian Tale vol. IThe Missionary: An Indian Tale; vol. IIN the beginning of the seventeenth century, Portugal, bereft of her natural sovereigns, had become an object of contention, to various powers in Europe. The houses of Braganza and of Parma, of Savoy and Medici, alike published their...
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