Author: Ann Armbruster
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516261027
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.
Author: David C Skaggs
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612512267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812. Made famous by the American fleet commander Oliver Hazard Perry's comment, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," the battle marked the U.S. Navy's first successful fleet action and was one of the rare occasions when the Royal Navy surrendered an entire squadron. This book draws on British, Canadian, and American documents to offer a totally impartial analysis of all sides of the struggle to control the lake. New diagrams of the battle are included that reflect the authors' modification of traditional positions of various vessels. The book also evaluates the strategic background and tactical conduct of the British and the Americans and the command leadership exercised by Perry and his British opponent, Commander Robert H. Barclay. Not since James Fenimore Cooper's 1843 book on the subject has the battle been examined in such detail, and not since Alfred Thayer Mahan's 1905 study of the war has there been such a significant reinterpretation of the engagement. First published in hardcover in 1997, the book is the winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award.
Author: Gerard T. Altoff
Publisher: Put-in-Bay, Ohio : Perry Group
ISBN: 9781887794039
Category : Canada History War of 1812 Naval operations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Carolyn V. Platt
Publisher: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press
ISBN: 0873386906
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 127
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"Expert or novice, birders and nature lovers will be moved by Platt's celebration of these birds and their habitat and by Meszaros's impressive photographs of the delicate beauty of these exquisite creatures."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Chad Fraser
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550027824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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This thoroughly researched history explores the personalities and events that have shaped Lake Erie and the towns and cities that surround it.
Author: Paul Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Author: Alvin F. Oickle
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614234841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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On August 9, 1841, the steamship Erie, one of the most elegant and fastest sailing between Buffalo and Chicago, departed carrying 340 passengers. Many were Swiss and German immigrants, planning to start new lives in America's heartland most never made it. The Erie erupted in flames during the night, and despite the heroic efforts of the crew of the Dewitt Clinton, 254 lives were lost. As news of this disaster spread, internationally renowned artists and writers, including Charles Dickens, were inspired to reflect on the lives lost. Historian Alvin F. Oickle's minute-by-minute account weaves together the tragic journey of the passengers, the legend that developed in the aftermath and the fury of a fire on an ocean-like lake.
Author: Mark Hicks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964330917
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Harold H. McLean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Roy C. Beaver
Publisher: San Marino, Calif : Golden West Books
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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