George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the West
Author | : Hugh F. Rankin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Generals |
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Author | : Hugh F. Rankin |
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Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Generals |
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Author | : Lowell H. Harrison |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813146178 |
"In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place." -- from the book South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from the Korean War. Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War -- American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese -- this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand. Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers' personal stories.
Author | : Robert C. Alberts |
Publisher | : University Press of the Pacific |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781410223807 |
CONTENTS Colonel Clark Organizes an Army A Dark and Bloody Land First Victory in the West "Perhaps We Might Be Fortunate" The March on Vincennes "Never Was a Man More Happy" The Fruits of Victory Epilogue: The Northwest Country in the New Nation Bibliography
Author | : William Nester |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2012-11-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806188138 |
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and British in the Ohio Valley during the American Revolution, but his most astonishing coup was recapturing Fort Sackville in 1779, when he was only twenty-six. For eighteen days, in the dead of winter, Clark and his troops marched through bone-chilling nights to reach the fort. With a deft mix of guile and violence, Clark led his men to triumph, without losing a single soldier. Although historians have ranked him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clark’s name is all but forgotten today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clark’s triumphs and his downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years. Nester attributes Clark’s successes to his drive and daring, good luck, charisma, and intellect. Born of a distinguished Virginia family, Clark wielded an acute understanding of human nature, both as a commander and as a diplomat. His interest in the natural world was an inspiration to lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson, who asked him in 1784 to lead a cross-country expedition to the Pacific and back. Clark turned Jefferson down. Two decades later, his youngest brother, William, would become the Clark celebrated as a member of the Corps of Discovery. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, though, George Rogers Clark may not have been fit to command any expedition. After the revolution, he raged against the government and pledged fealty to other nations, leading to his arrest under the Sedition Act. The inner demons that fueled Clark’s anger also drove him to excessive drinking. He died at the age of sixty-five, bitter, crippled, and alcoholic. He was, Nester shows, a self-destructive hero: a volatile, multidimensional man whose glorying in war ultimately engaged him in conflicts far removed from the battlefield and against himself.
Author | : Theodore Roosevelt |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Kentucky |
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Author | : Robert C. Alberts |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Theodore Roosevelt |
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Total Pages | : 414 |
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Author | : Roosevelt, Theodore |
Publisher | : Best Books on |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1889-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 1623769965 |
Author | : Theodore Roosevelt |
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Total Pages | : 412 |
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