Author: Edward PARRY (Bishop of Dover.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Edward PARRY (Bishop of Dover.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: George Macilwain
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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John Abernethy FRS (3 April 1764 – 20 April 1831) was an English surgeon. He is popularly remembered today for having given his name to the Abernethy biscuit, a coarse-meal baked good meant to aid digestion. Excerpt: "The idea I then had of Abernethy was, that he was a great man who lived in London. I then found that my father had studied under him, and his name became a sort of household word in our family. "

Author: Jerry Roberts
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819574775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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This is the dynamic account of one of the most destructive maritime actions to take place in Connecticut history: the 1814 British attack on the privateers of Pettipaug, known today as the British Raid on Essex. During the height of the War of 1812, 136 Royal marines and sailors made their way up the Connecticut River from warships anchored in Long Island Sound. Guided by a well-paid American traitor the British navigated the Saybrook shoals and advanced up the river under cover of darkness. By the time it was over, the British had burned twenty-seven American vessels, including six newly built privateers. It was the largest single maritime loss of the war. Yet this story has been virtually left out of the history books—the forgotten battle of the forgotten war. This new account from author and historian Jerry Roberts is the definitive overview of this event and includes a wealth of new information drawn from recent research and archaeological finds. Lavish illustrations and detailed maps bring the battle to life.

Author: Anthony Brandt
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307276562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions. Enthralling and often harrowing, The Man Who Ate His Boots captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise.

Author: Edward Parry (bp. of Dover)
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1850

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Languages : en
Pages : 1338

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Author: Longmans, Green and co
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Languages : en
Pages : 822

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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