The Last Camel Charge

Author : Forrest Bryant Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425253503
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Camel Charge written by Forrest Bryant Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating story, telling aspects of the American West that most of us know little about.”—True West Magazine In the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. Army was on the verge of employing a weapon that had never before been seen on its native soil: a cavalry mount that would fare better than both mules and horses in the American Southwest... Against the Mojave in the Arizona Territory, against the Mormons in Utah Territory, during the early stages of the Civil War, the camel would become part of military history and a nearly forgotten chapter of Americana. This is the true story of that experiment and the extraordinary group of people who it brought together. The Last Camel Charge gives them their due as a vital piece of American history. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author : F. B. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322829739
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Camel Charge written by F. B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446573221
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Camel Died at Noon written by Elizabeth Peters and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Peters brings back 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in a delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids.

Author : Sherry Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612444079
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Camel Experiment of the Old West written by Sherry Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1800s, the United States needed a better way to protect the great flood of immigrants, pioneers, and settlers headed west along the southern route from Indian attacks, thieves, and murderers. Sending more cavalry wasn't the answer. The land known as the great American Desert was inhospitable to horses and mules. Only one animal "stood the test" in the southwest, and it wasn't a horse. The Great Camel Experiment of the Old West chronicles the journey of that noble beast from the Middle East to the deserts of the American Southwest.

Author : Terry Brighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Charge written by Terry Brighton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Battle of Omdurman (September 2, 1898) an army commanded by the British General Sir Horatio Kitchener defeated the army of the Khalifa, the Dervishes. It was a bloody demonstration of the superiority of machine guns and artillery over older weapons and marked the successful end of the British efforts to re-conquer the Sudan. Around 10,000 Dervishes were killed, 15,000 wounded and 5000 were taken prisoner. Kitchener's force lost 48 men with 382 wounded. The Khalifa escaped and survived until 1899 while Kitchener was en-nobled as an earl, Kitchener of Khartoum, for his victory. This title examines the British light cavalry regiment - the 21st Lancers - involvement in the battle, for which they were awarded three Victoria Crosses. The "Military Classics" series brings military historical analysis to bear on a specific battle or campaign. Illustrated throughout with a mix of archive shots and diagrams showing the course of the campaign, the centrepiece of each is a colour section showing the uniforms and equipment of a range of combatants in detail.

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781077864269
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Camel Corps written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further reading In the 1850s, Americans widely believed that the area from the 97th Meridian to the Rocky Mountains was vast, sterile, and useless, fit only for wandering natives and something to be endured rather than enjoyed by the people traveling through. Putting the eastern border near the point where the Great Plains begin, a common name for the huge region was "The Great American Desert," and the acquisition of the Southwest from Mexico added to the already huge area, commonly considered desert wasteland. Suddenly, the United States had a million square miles of Great American Desert to administrate, an area where the resident native warriors considerably outnumbered the small U.S. Army. In fact, the use of the word "desert" probably contributed to the idea behind using camels in the region, thanks to their reputation as "ships of the desert." With that in mind, the United States Camel Corps was a military experiment in the 1850s that brought camels from Egypt and Turkey to Texas and California. The cast of characters in this story is larger than life and includes U.S. Army and Navy officers, explorers, writers, politicians, and diplomats. The most famous person involved was Jefferson Davis, a U.S. Senator from Mississippi who went on to become Secretary of War and the Confederacy's only president. The project also utilized Haji Ali (also known as "Hi Jolly"), the U.S. Army's first Muslim employee, and it even had a small effect on the Civil War. One of the camels, Doug, was used by the Confederates at Vicksburg, and locals despised the Red Ghost, a feral camel that terrorized rural Arizona. The most important result of this historical footnote probably has no resonance in American history, and in fact, the name "United States Camel Corps" was never formalized, but it seems to be what historians call a retronym, a name given after a phenomenon has receded into the past. How long the name of "Camel Corps" has been in existence is unknown, but it has been used in literature for close to a century. What the troopers themselves called the unit remains unknown. However, the unit was extraordinarily important to Mexico, thanks to a man named Elias, one of the Syrian-Arab cameleers. Hired and brought over to teach American soldiers how to handle camels, Elias eventually moved to Sonora, Mexico, married a Yaqui Mexican woman, and had a son who went on to become a formidable and energetic president of Mexico. The United States Camel Corps: The History of the U.S. Army's Use of Camels in the Southwest during the 19th Century looks at the unique unit, from its origins to its record. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the United States Camel Corps like never before.

Author : Forrest Bryant Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440678154
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Warrior written by Forrest Bryant Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of John McKinney who received the Medal of Honor for his actions against a Japanese surprise attack. On May 11, 1945, McKinney returned fire on the Japanese attacking his unit, using every available weapon-even his fists-standing alone against wave after wave of dedicated Japanese soldiers. At the end, John McKinney was alive-with over forty Japanese bodies before him. This is the story of an extraordinary man whose courage and fortitude in battle saved many American lives, and whose legacy has been sadly forgotten by all but a few. Here, the proud legacy of John McKinney lives on.

Author : Claus Ibsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1638352801
Total Pages : 1274 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camel in Action written by Claus Ibsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Camel in Action, Second Edition is the most complete Camel book on the market. Written by core developers of Camel and the authors of the highly acclaimed first edition, this book distills their experience and practical insights so that you can tackle integration tasks like a pro. Forewords by James Strachan and Dr. Mark Little Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Apache Camel is a Java framework that implements enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) and comes with over 200 adapters to third-party systems. A concise DSL lets you build integration logic into your app with just a few lines of Java or XML. By using Camel, you benefit from the testing and experience of a large and vibrant open source community. About the Book Camel in Action, Second Edition is the definitive guide to the Camel framework. It starts with core concepts like sending, receiving, routing, and transforming data. It then goes in depth on many topics such as how to develop, debug, test, deal with errors, secure, scale, cluster, deploy, and monitor your Camel applications. The book also discusses how to run Camel with microservices, reactive systems, containers, and in the cloud. What's Inside Coverage of all relevant EIPs Camel microservices with Spring Boot Camel on Docker and Kubernetes Error handling, testing, security, clustering, monitoring, and deployment Hundreds of examples in Java and XML About the Reader Readers should be familiar with Java. This book is accessible to beginners and invaluable to experts. About the Author Claus Ibsen is a senior principal engineer working for Red Hat specializing in cloud and integration. He has worked on Apache Camel for the last nine years where he heads the project. Claus lives in Denmark. Jonathan Anstey is an engineering manager at Red Hat and a core Camel contributor. He lives in Newfoundland, Canada. Table of Contents Part 1 - First steps Meeting Camel Routing with Camel Part 2 - Core Camel Transforming data with Camel Using beans with Camel Enterprise integration patterns Using components Part 3 - Developing and testing Microservices Developing Camel projects Testing RESTful web services Part 4 - Going further with Camel Error handling Transactions and idempotency Parallel processing Securing Camel Part 5 - Running and managing Camel Running and deploying Camel Management and monitoring Part 6 - Out in the wild Clustering Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes Camel tooling Bonus online chapters Available at https://www.manning.com/books/camel-in-​action-second-edition and in electronic versions of this book: Reactive Camel Camel and the IoT by Henryk Konsek

Author : James L. Hevia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656231X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare written by James L. Hevia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousands of camels of the Indus River basin to move supplies into and out of contested areas—a system that wreaked havoc on the delicately balanced multispecies environment of humans, animals, plants, and microbes living in this region of Northwest India. In Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare, James Hevia examines the use of camels, mules, and donkeys in colonial campaigns of conquest and pacification, starting with the Second Afghan War—during which an astonishing 50,000 to 60,000 camels perished—and ending in the early twentieth century. Hevia explains how during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new set of human-animal relations were created as European powers and the United States expanded their colonial possessions and attempted to put both local economies and ecologies in the service of resource extraction. The results were devastating to animals and human communities alike, disrupting centuries-old ecological and economic relationships. And those effects were lasting: Hevia shows how a number of the key issues faced by the postcolonial nation-state of Pakistan—such as shortages of clean water for agriculture, humans, and animals, and limited resources for dealing with infectious diseases—can be directly traced to decisions made in the colonial past. An innovative study of an underexplored historical moment, Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare opens up the animal studies to non-Western contexts and provides an empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of multispecies historical ecology.

Author : Emily Bazelon
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 039959003X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charged written by Emily Bazelon and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out. “An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy “This harrowing, often enraging book is a hopeful one, as well, profiling innovative new approaches and the frontline advocates who champion them.”—Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. That image of the law does not match the reality in the courtroom, however. Much of the time, it is prosecutors more than judges who control the outcome of a case, from choosing the charge to setting bail to determining the plea bargain. They often decide who goes free and who goes to prison, even who lives and who dies. In Charged, Emily Bazelon reveals how this kind of unchecked power is the underreported cause of enormous injustice—and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle. Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a twenty-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend’s gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases—from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing—and, with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism, illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don’t have to. Bazelon also details the second chances they prosecutors can extend, if they choose, to Kevin and Noura and so many others. She follows a wave of reform-minded D.A.s who have been elected in some of our biggest cities, as well as in rural areas in every region of the country, put in office to do nothing less than reinvent how their job is done. If they succeed, they can point the country toward a different and profoundly better future.