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Bernal Diaz del Castillo 691l4j
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diazdel Castillo is a true and biographic work written in two volumes and this volume is the first one to be written. Written by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a Spanish conquistador who was a foot soldier in the conquest of Mexico and Hernan Cortes. The author mentions in his preface as “It treats of the d.. i5y6p
Ulysses S. Grant 251747
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is the stunning autobiography of the Great military personality who leads the union army in American civil war to victory. This autobiography was written by the author during his deathbed against throat cancer and while he was badly in need of funds for his family. This work was compared by Mark Twain to the me..
Russell A. Kelly e5v29
The first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun, were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly their original form except for the omission of strictly personal matters. The last ..
Bryce Walton 6q4f2z
The figure of Hawker looms up large in the early days of aviation, and such was the man, that even after the war, with the hundreds of thousands of people that came into the movement, he still stood out a noteworthy figure. His name will go down for all time coupled with others who gave their lives for the cause, such as Rolls, Grace, Cody. It..
Henry Timberlake 1w32v
After extracting this detail from my Journal, and supplying many circumstances from my memory, I was very much at a loss what title to give it. Memoirs seemed to answer my design with the greatest propriety; but that being so commonly misapplied, I was afraid the public would expect a romance, where I only intended laying down a few facts, for the ..
Henry B. Carrington 4ow14
The text of this volume, completed in the spring of 1898 and not since modified, requires a different Preface from that first prepared. The events of another war introduce applications of military principles which have special interest. This is the more significant because modern appliances have been developed with startling rapidity, while general..
Albert Plummer c295q
I have undertaken to write a history of the Forty-eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the Civil War in diary form from the commencement to the close of the service. Undoubtedly much more might have been written giving many interesting particulars concerning the different companies and incidents relating to individual of those comp..
James J. Williamson 2g1r4o
The little episode in relation to the Fairfax Court House raid will need no apology for its introduction, as I have already had occasion to refer to that affair in my diary. It is not my intention in my prison diary to discuss the constitutional or legal question of arbitrary arrests and imprisonment of non-combatants, but to present to my readers ..