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Conquer and Colonize: Stevenson's Regiment and California |
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Категория: Гуманитарные науки » Исторические науки » Историография |
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Автор: Donald C. Biggs
Издательство: Presidio Press
isbn: 0891410236
Количество страниц: 263
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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When President James Polk authorized the raising of a regiment of volunteers in New York after the 1846 declaration of war between the United States and Mexico, Jonathan Stevenson, a man with proper Democratic Party credentials, was named to recruit and lead its members. Donald Biggs, former director of the California Historical Society, has written a history of the regiment tracing its recruitment and training in New York, its arrival in California in March 1847, its deployment throughout both Alta and Baja California, its members' reactions to gold fever, and its mustering out. He then follows the regiment's former members into the gold fields, San Francisco businesses, and public life. Biggs concludes that a majority of members of Stevenson's Regiment became an important and positive force in the Americanization of California. A minority of the regiment's members became outlaws, like Jack Powers, or members of the Hounds, like Samuel Roberts, or filibusters, like Joseph Morehead, or had a brief career in smuggling, as did Ira Johnson in San Diego. Biggs effectively and persuasively points out that many historians, instead of looking at the constructive work of the majority of former regiment members, have emphasized the role of the minority, particularly of the Hounds. He performs the important task of correcting our view of the impact of the regiment. |
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The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Female Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars |
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Категория: Военное дело » Прочее |
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Автор: Nadezhda Durova
Издательство: Paladin Grafton Books
Год издания: 1990
isbn: 0586089292
Количество страниц: 242
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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In 1807 Tsar Alexander I granted a commission to a young cavalryman who had shown valour in the campaign against the French. The Tsar knew - and some fellow officers soon guessed - that this brave soldier was a woman. Disguised as a man, Nadezhda Durova served nearly ten years in the Russian light cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. Her campaign service included the Battle of Borodino in 1812. She wrote an account of her experiences in the 1830s, and Mary Fleming Zirin here accomplishes a modern and annotated translation. |
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Medieval Technology and Social Change |
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Категория: Гуманитарные науки » Исторические науки » Историография |
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Автор: Lynn White
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 1974
isbn: 0195002660
Количество страниц: 224
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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In Medieval Technology and Social Change, Lynn White considers the effects of technological innovation on the societies of medieval Europe: the slow collapse of feudalism with the development of machines and tools that introduced factories in place of cottage industries, and the development of the manorial system with the introduction of new kinds of plows and new methods of crop rotation. One invention of particular import, writes White, was the stirrup, which in turn introduced heavy, long-range cavalry to the medieval battlefield. The development thus escalated small-scale conflict to "shock combat." Cannons and flamethrowers followed, as did more peaceful inventions, such as watermills and reapers. |
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The Volunteer: Uniforms, Weapons and History of the Irish Republican Army 1913-1997 |
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Категория: Военное дело » Униформа, обмундирование |
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Автор: James Durney
Издательство: Gaul House
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 095491807X
Количество страниц: 88
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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On Easter Monday outside the General Post Office in Dublin James Connolly announced that there was no Irish Citizen Army and no Irish Volunteers. They were the Irish Republican Army. At the nearby Four Courts, Commandant Edward Daly told his men that "The Volunteers are now part of the Irish Republican Army." From that day through eight more decades the Irish Republican Army has waged war against the forces of the Crown, the Free State government, militant loyalists, and even within itself. The Volunteer is a history of the Irish Republican Army, its uniforms and weapons from 1913 to 1997 told through archival and rare photographs. |
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Brazen Chariots. An Account of Tank Warfare in the Western Desert November-December 1941 |
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Категория: Военное дело » История войн |
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Автор: Robert Crisp
Издательство: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Год издания: 1978
isbn: 0553118129
Количество страниц: 233
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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A tank officer's story of the desert war in North Africa, Brazen Chariots is one of the most widely praised war books ever published. Major Robert Crisp recounts Operation Crusader, the great tank battle waged against Rommel's Afrika Korps on the borders of Egypt. |
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The US Cavalry, 1865-1890: Patrolling the Frontier (Historical Warriors 5) |
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Категория: Военное дело » История войн |
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Автор: Jose Antonio
Издательство: Andrea Press
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 8496527875
Количество страниц: 51
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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The US Cavalry is a theme that reminds the reader of some of the most heroic actions in the military history of all times and at all the corners of the globe. This body, surrounded by the myths that made the US Cavalry known worldwide has seen how its image was either glorified with great campaigns idealized mainly by Hollywood, which were really nothing of the sort, or depicted too negatively with cruel actions, sometimes over exaggerated by subjective accounts. This book, pertaining the Historical Warriors collection, provides a brief introduction through various chapters, to what was the US Cavalry between 1865 and 1890, handling themes such as the myth and reality of this military body, its composition after the Succession War, the migration of the colonists and the role of the cavalry in the so called 'Indian problem'. From a strictly human viewpoint, the book also reveals the cavalry's social characteristics, in chapters dedicated to soldiers and officers' lifestyle and the cavalry's origins within the state of the American society of the epoch, as well as interesting introduction on discipline and life in the fort and on campaign. As far as the cavalry as a body is concerned, the book takes a look at the formation of the different regiments, combat strategies used during the Indian wars and in the great campaigns, equipment and armor, horses and their care and the different uniforms from the Civil War up to the last modifications, not forgetting to mention civilian clothing. The final chapters detail the main actions and portray the key players in this epic adventure. All the chapters are illustrated with photographs from the epoch, color illustrations, maps and diagrams, providing the reader with greater enjoyment of this essential work for those fascinated by military history. |
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U.S. Camera '62 |
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Категория: Хобби, коллекционирование » Фотография |
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Автор: Tom Maloney
Издательство: Duell, Sloane & Pearce
Год издания: 1961
isbn: 1125145919
Количество страниц: 216
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Thomas Maloney edited and published the U.S. Camera Annual from 1935 to 1969, and numerous other photography books. Contents: McCall's Children - Art Kane, Bert Stern, Boyce Downy. Robert Fréson Brett Weston - Europe George Silk and Marvin E. Newman - Sports Illustrated Mathew Brady's Picture Men W. Suschitzky and Peter Suschitzky James Abee - 50 years Ken Heyman - People Edward Steichen the Photographer Rocket Photography Presidential Highlights Fine Pictures - American-International. |
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The Politics of the Prussian Army 1640-1945 |
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Категория: Военное дело » Прочее |
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Автор: G. A. Craig
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 1964
Количество страниц: 538
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Professor Craig's study describes the influence exerted in German domestic and foreign policy by the Prussian-German army, "the strongest supporter of the monarchial state and the most effective and inveterate opponent of political change." It traces the three-hundred-year ascendancy of the army from the founding of the Hohenzollern military state by the Great Elector and King, Frederick William I, and describes its stubborn resistance to liberal and democratic reform movements and its successful maintenance of authority until it was outmaneuvered and forced into humiliating subordination by Adolf Hitler. This book also offers new documentation of the critical years of the Weimar Republic. |
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Uniforms of the World's Police: With Brief Data on Organization, Systems, and Weapons |
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Категория: Военное дело » Униформа, обмундирование |
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Автор: James Cramer
Издательство: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Год издания: 1968
Количество страниц: 210
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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This little-known book includes an impressive compilation of black and white photographs from national police departments in almost every country in the world, including third world nations in Africa and Asia. At the time it was produced, many of these countries' police forces still wore uniforms from the colonial years before independence. Other countries such as those in Europe and North America wore the most modern styles, tempered by local tradition. This is an valuable study of the subject. |
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Treasures of the Czars from the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin |
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Категория: Гуманитарные науки » Исторические науки » Историография |
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Автор: Mark Sutcliffe
Издательство: Booth-Clibborn Editions
Год издания: 1995
isbn: 1873968515
Количество страниц: 260
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Treasures of the Czars from the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin, presented by the Florida International Museum, was an important and long-awaited event in the lives of two nations - Russia and the United States of America. Hundreds of art objects formed an exhibit brought directly from the Kremlin Armory Museum in Moscow to the newly opened Florida International Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The unprecedented exhibition included glittering icons, golden chalices, pearl-encrusted gospel covers, ornamental crucifixes, rich imperial regalia and ecclesiastical vestments, plus weapons, armor, tapestries, textiles and toys. This book has high-quality color photographs of many of these wonderful items, accompanied by text by the Kremlin curators. |
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