Author: John Wentworth
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
The Wentworth Genealogy
Author: John Wentworth
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Babb Families of New England and Beyond
Author: Jean A. Sargent
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Descendants of Phillip Babb of Isles of Shoals, Maine, and Benjamin Babb of Middletown, Connecticut. Includes many related families.
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Descendants of Phillip Babb of Isles of Shoals, Maine, and Benjamin Babb of Middletown, Connecticut. Includes many related families.
History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. 1623-1905
Author: Francis Byron Greene
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Category : Boothbay (Me. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Category : Boothbay (Me. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: William Hand Browne
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Foster Genealogy
Author: Frederick Clifton Pierce
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Lewis and Clark
Author: John Bakeless
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486292335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Authoritative biography of two great explorers. Danger, hardships, Indian customs and lore, much more. 29 illus. 7 maps.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486292335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Authoritative biography of two great explorers. Danger, hardships, Indian customs and lore, much more. 29 illus. 7 maps.
History of Carroll County, New Hampshire
Author: Georgia Drew Merrill
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Author: Joseph Henderson Bausman
Publisher: New York, The Knickerbocker Press
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Category : Beaver County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher: New York, The Knickerbocker Press
ISBN:
Category : Beaver County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
A History of Norway, Maine
Author: Charles Foster Whitman
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Category : Norway (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : Norway (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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A Generous and Merciful Enemy
Author: Daniel Krebs
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners’ responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a “generous and merciful enemy” to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners’ responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a “generous and merciful enemy” to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.