The American Sharpe

Author : Gareth Glover
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473884179
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Sharpe written by Gareth Glover and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement. James Penman Gairdner was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but he was sent back to the ‘Old Country’ for his education, receiving his schooling at Harrow. After school, rather than joining his father’s merchant business he decided to become a soldier, receiving a commission in the famous 95th Rifles. He subsequently served, without a break, from the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 until the end of the war in 1814. He then fought in the Waterloo campaign and formed part of the Army of Occupation. He was wounded on three occasions. Throughout his service he kept a journal, which he managed to maintain on almost a daily basis. This journal, along with a number of letters that he wrote to his family, have been edited by renowned historian Gareth Glover and are presented here to the public for the first time. Readers will not find dramatic stories of great battles or adventurous escapades. Instead, Gairdner, details the everyday life of one of Wellington’s soldiers; one of marches and billets, of the weather, the places and the people of the Iberian Peninsula and of Paris and Occupied France – the real nature of soldering. His diaries also highlight the very strange relationship between these newly independent Americans and the ‘Old Country’ they had so recently fought with; which even allowed for a true American boy to fight in the British Army, but not in America!

Author : Gerald M. Carbone
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147666921X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry written by Gerald M. Carbone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine, joined up and brought with him his engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, with his son Henry and grandson Henry, Jr., guided the company for more than a century--and along with it the global machine tools industry. The men and women of Brown & Sharpe produced and marketed a dazzling array of measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery. They truly helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe covers more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history's longest strike.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451213426
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharpe's Company written by Bernard Cornwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortress—where his wife and infant daughter are trapped—while protecting himself from a fellow officer determined to destroy him.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Contractor written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Levi Osgood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century written by Herbert Levi Osgood and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of the association, papers read at the annual sessions, and lists of current medical literature.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101153601
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharpe's Siege (#9) written by Bernard Cornwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpe's mission has seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon's supply lines, and retreat across the sea. But behind the lines, Sharpe's old enemy, Pierre Ducos, awaits Sharpe's arrival with a battalion of French soldiers and a vicious commanding general who keeps the scalps of his dead enemies as trophies. Outmaneuvered by Ducos's treachery and abandoned by his own navy, Sharpe has only two choices: to escape with the aid of the charming, unscrupulous American mercenary, Cornelius Killick, or die.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1390 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Appropriation Bill, 1917 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: