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The overland companion: a guide for the traveller to India via Egypt
Author | : Joachim Hayward Stocqueler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
No Turning Back
Author | : Robert M. Dunkerly |
Publisher | : Savas Beatie |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611211948 |
“[T]here will be no turning back,” said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to end things, Grant resolved, once and for all. With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant crossed the Rapidan River, intending to draw the Army of Northern Virginia into one final battle. Short of that, he planned “to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him . . . .” Almost immediately, though, Robert E. Lee’s Confederates brought Grant to bay in the thick tangle of the Wilderness. Rather than retreat, as other army commanders had done in the past, Grant outmaneuvered Lee, swinging left and south. There was, after all, no turning back. “I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer,” Grant vowed. And he did: from the dark, close woods of the Wilderness to the Muleshoe of Spotsylvania, to the steep banks of the North Anna River, to the desperate charges of Cold Harbor. The 1864 Overland Campaign would be a nonstop grind of fighting, maneuvering, and marching, much of it in rain and mud, with casualty lists longer than anything yet seen in the war. In No Turning Back: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4 - June 13, 1864, historians Robert M. Dunkerly, Donald C. Pfanz, and David R. Ruth allow readers to follow in the footsteps of the armies as they grapple across the Virginia landscape. Pfanz spent his career as a National Park Service historian on the battlefields where the campaign began; Dunkerly and Ruth work on the battlefields where it concluded. Few people know the ground, or the campaign, better.
Companion to California
Author | : James D. Hart |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1987-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520055445 |
This work is intended as a useful companion for anybody interested in general or basic knowledge about any aspect of the most populous state in the Union. It is designed to be serviceable to a wide variety of readers and consultants, whose range might include residents and tourists, high-school and college students, as well as scholars seeking a ready reference. At present no single volume comprehends such a scope as this one and although it treats its subjects briefly, many an entry also includes data not found elsewhere in a single place. Reference to hundreds of books and articles would be required to provide the information that is here between the two covers.
The Youth's Companion
Author | : Nathaniel Willis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Children's periodicals |
ISBN | : |
Includes music.
Companions of Champlain
Author | : Denise R. Larson |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 0806353678 |
The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
Author | : Nicolas S. Witschi |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118652517 |
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies