War & Military

Yorkshire Battles

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Edward Lamplough



Edward Lamplough describes 22 battles that all occurred in Yorkshire over many time periods and political contexts. - Summary by lightcryst…

Canada in War-Paint

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Ralph W. Bell



There is no attempt made in the little sketches which this book contains to deal historically with events of the war. It is but a small Souv…

Historical Romance of the American Negro

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Charles H. Fowler



It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …

Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands

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John C. Chapin



By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…

Cromwell's Place in History

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner



In the autumn of 1896, the renowned historian of the 17th century, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, delivered six lectures on "Cromwell's Place …

Life and Times of Joseph Warren

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Richard Frothingham, Jr.



Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil…

Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 1

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Otto von Bismarck and Otto Von Bismarck



A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…

War Memories of an Army Chaplain

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Henry C. Trumbull



Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…

Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence

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Benson John Lossing



Lossing's Biographical Sketches of the Signers contains short descriptions of the Lives of the Signers from this well-respected American his…

A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

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Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman



It 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 B…

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 3 of 4

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Parker Thomas Moon



Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…

Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu

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Gordon D. Gayle



On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lu…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1913 - 1922)

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Woodrow Wilson, Andwarren G. Harding and Thomas Woodrow Wilson



The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

The Sailor's Word-book, H - M

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William Henry Smyth



A digest of sea terms and phrases, including flora, fauna, fish, fowl and fable of the sea, weaponry aboard ship, parts of a ship, qualities…

Shout Treason: the Trial of Aaron Burr

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Francis F. Beirne



Much has been written about Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and other founding fathers who were at the center of United States v…

War Prison Diary

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Michael Dougherty



The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1909 - 1912)

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William Howard Taft



The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

The Greek War of Independence (1821-1827)

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Charles D. Chambers



Written in the style and language of Thucydides, and intended for students in the early stages of learning to read Ancient Greek, this brief…

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827

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Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs



Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…

The Life of Frederick William von Steuben

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Friedrich Kapp



The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…

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