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By: Queen Marguerite (1553-1615) | |
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Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois |
By: Gen. George A. Custer (1839-1876) | |
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My Life on the Plains
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. He eventually met his fate in the battle of Little Big Horn in one of the most notable defeats of American armed forces.My Life on the Plains is an autobiographical first-hand account of the Indian Wars of 1867-1869, detailing the winter campaign of 1868 in which Custer led the 7th US cavalry against the Cheyenne Indians... |
By: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769-1834) | |
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Memoirs of Napoleon | |
By: Byron A. Dunn (1842-1926) | |
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Raiding with Morgan
It is a fictional tale of cavalry actions during the U.S. Civil War, under General John Morgan. |
By: Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1675-1755) | |
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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency |
By: John M. Synge (1871-1909) | |
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In Wicklow and West Kerry |
By: Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) | |
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Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) | |
Home Life in Colonial Days
CHAPTER I HOMES OF THE COLONISTS When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a land magnificent with forest trees of every size and variety, but they had no sawmills, and few saws to cut boards; there was plenty of clay and ample limestone on every side, yet they could have no brick and no mortar; grand boulders of granite and rock were everywhere, yet there was not a single facility for cutting, drawing, or using stone... | |
Customs and Fashions in Old New England |
By: Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) | |
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The Petticoat Commando
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little-known incidents of the South African war, but also because of the keen personal interest of the events recorded. It is more than a history. It is a dramatic picture of the hopes and fears, the devotion and bitterness with which some patriotic women in Pretoria watched and, as far as they could, took part in the war which was slowly drawing to its conclusion on the veld outside... |
By: Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) | |
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Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain. One of the stated purposes for writing the account is his fear of Spain coming under divine punishment and his concern for the souls of the Native Peoples... |
By: Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928) | |
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A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 | |
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes |
By: Frederick A. Ober (1849-1913) | |
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Amerigo Vespucci | |
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa | |
"Old Put" The Patriot |
By: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1841-1885) | |
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Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances | |
Jackanapes |
By: Edwin F. Benson (1867-1940) | |
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Crescent and Iron Cross |
By: Daniel G. Brinton (1837-1899) | |
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The Myths of the New World
The Myths of the New World's full title describes it as.. " a treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America", an attempt to analyse and correlate scientifically, the mythology of the American Indians. Note: Brinton advocated theories of scientific racism that were pervasive at that time. |
By: Cassius Dio Cocceianus | |
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Dio's Rome, An Historical Narrative |
By: Angelo S. Rappoport (1871-1950) | |
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History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12) |
By: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) | |
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The Wrack of the Storm |
By: G. E. Mitton | |
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Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London | |
Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London | |
Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London |