War & Military

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…

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…

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…

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 2 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…

The Capture of Fort William and Mary

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Charles Lathrop Parsons


The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …

The Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864

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William Ludlow


This is an account of the Union army's strategies and activities in protecting a Union garrison at Allatoona in Bartow Country, Georgia duri…

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…

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…

Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno

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Bernard C. Nalty


On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…

The Western Boundary, and Other Essays

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Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke


Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…

With Porter in the Essex

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James Otis


The marvelous cruise of the U.S.S. Essex, the United States frigate of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain David Porter. A story of his f…

Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons

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Charles D. Melson


In December that year (1942), patrol flights taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and from the decks of U.S. fleet carriers in the…

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