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Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume IIILife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. PAGE Chap. XXV.Increasing Jealousies betwixt France and EnglandEncroachments on the part of the formerInstructions given by the First Consul to his Commercial AgentsOrders issued by the English MinistersPeltier's celebrated Royalist Publication, L'AmbiguPeltier tried for a Libel against the...
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Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume IILife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. PAGE Chap. I.CorsicaFamily of BuonaparteNapoleon born 15th August, 1769His early HabitsSent to the Royal Military School at BrienneHis great Progress in Mathematical ScienceDeficiency in Classical LiteratureAnecdotesRemoved to the General School of ParisWhen in his Seventeenth Year, appointed Second...
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Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume ILife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I.The extent and purpose of this Work, have, in the course of its progress, gradually but essentially changed from what the Author originally proposed. It was at first intended merely as a brief and popular abstract of the life...
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Marines in World War II, Commemorative SeriesAcross the Reef: The Marine Assault of TarawaIn August 1943, to meet in secret with Major General Julian C. Smith and his principal staff officers of the 2d Marine Division, Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, commanding the Central Pacific Force, flew to New Zealand...
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The Great Diamond HoaxThe Great Diamond Hoax - and Other Stirring Incidents in the Life of Asbury HarpendingOn my return to California, after an absence of many years, my attention was called, for the first time, to the fact that my name had been associated unpleasantly with...
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Punaiset ja valkoiset: Kuvaus Suomen luokkasodastaPunaiset ja valkoiset: Kuvaus Suomen luokkasodasta kalkkien muiden Suomen valkoisen hirmuvallan uhrien muistolle omistetaan tm runsain lainauksin suoritettu vaatimaton esitys, jonka tarkoituksena on osaltaan olla vastapainona sille valtaisalle lokarypylle, joka siivottoman valkoisen katukirjallisuuden muodossa tulvii ei ainoastaan jo koirahautain koskemattomuudessa silvottuina tai nlll, kuoliaaksi...
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Three Years in the ServiceThree Years in the Service - A Record of the Doings of the 11th Reg. Missouri Vols.Being anxious to serve my country, I walked to Springfield, Illinois, a distance of twenty-five miles. I arrived there early in the evening, and took up lodging with...
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Copy of Letters Sent to Great-Britain by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other PersonsCopy of Letters Sent to Great-Britain by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other PersonsIn which (notwithstanding his Excellencys Declaration to the House, that the Tendency and Design of them was not to subvert the Constitution, but rather to preserve...
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Mistress SpitfireMistress Spitfire - A Plain Account of Certain Episodes in the History of Richard Coope, Gent., and of His Cousin, Mistress Alison French, at the Time of the Revolution, 1642-1644 A Plain Account of Certain Episodes in the History of Richard Coope, Gent., and...
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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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