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Captains of the Civil War

Wood, William Charles Henry
Captains of the Civil War
Excerpt: ...being reinforced, he took up a strong position on the twenty-seventh. Again there was failure in combining the attack. Jackson found obstructions that even he could not overcome quickly enough. Hill attacked again with the utmost gallantry, wave after wave of Confederates rushing forward only to melt away before the concentrated fire of Porter's reinforced command. But at last the Confederates-though checked and roughly handled-con...

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Captains of the Civil War

Wood, William Charles Henry
Captains of the Civil War
Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two-the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through. I gratefully acknow...

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Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, Vol...

Wood, William Charles Henry
Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Select British Documents of the Canadian War of 1812, Vol. 2 The Gun boats are to be built on the Thames, by Which much time and expense Will be saved. I want no assistance towards building the Gun boats. The Labor and Materials I have at hand. It is not so With respect to the Ship however no time need be lost. An estimate of the materials is sent, and a saving of time and expense will arise in pro portion to the number of Shipwr...

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The Winning of Canada

Wood, William Charles Henry
The Winning of Canada
Excerpt from The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolfe Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a greater whole. But, since such treatment gives a totally false idea of his achievement, this little sketch, drawn straight from original sources, tries to show him as he really was, a co-worker with the British fleet in a war based entirely on nava...

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Captains of the Civil War

Wood, William Charles Henry
Captains of the Civil War
Excerpt from Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray Boone and crockett clubround Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book...

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