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In the years just preceding the War of 1812 one man, an Indian, dominated the American frontier-Tecumseh. He emerges here as a vivid, splendid character, a man of unusual talents and noble aims, whereas in much previous history and biography he has been depicted as a baffling, sinister, often bloody figure-a man of inscrutable motives whose scheming for a time actually threatened to delay the settlement of the Northwest. Tecumseh's great oratorical...
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Dawn like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy, first published in 1963, is the definitive account of the fledgling Navy and Marine Corps of the United States in the early 1800s. The book details the struggle of American ships such as the USS Constitution and Constellation against the pirates and Muslim warlords of the Mediterranean and North Africa in what would become known as the Barbary Wars. Also covered are the key players...
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Author Glenn Tucker's interest in research on the War of 1812 was piqued whilst he was employed as a newspaperman in Washington, D.C. "I wanted to find out what truly occurred when the British occupied the American capital in 1814. Nothing like Ross's seizure of the capital of a great power with a small attacking force has happened elsewhere in modern times. No other event gives so clear a view of the trials of our young government. Searching out...
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Includes more than 20 illustrations Famed Civil War historian Glen Tucker was commissioned by the North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission to write a short portrait of the men and battles that the soldiers from North Carolina fought under the Stars and Bars. Illustrated beautifully throughout by Bill Ballard, the author takes the reader on to the battlefields of the Civil War and through his vivid vignettes records the immortal deeds of the...
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Author Glenn Tucker's interest in research on the War of 1812 was piqued whilst he was employed as a newspaperman in Washington, D.C. "I wanted to find out what truly occurred when the British occupied the American capital in 1814. Nothing like Ross's seizure of the capital of a great power with a small attacking force has happened elsewhere in modern times. No other event gives so clear a view of the trials of our young government. Searching out...
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This is the life story of a great fighting general of the Civil War, Winfield Scott Hancock. In the early fighting on the Peninsula, when the Confederates were flanked out of Fort Magruder, McClellan reported, 'Hancock was superb.' Before long, people were referring to him as Hancock the Superb, and for the next three years, he re-earned the sobriquet in battle after battle. He was able to distinguish himself equally in disastrous defeat, as at Chancellorsville,...
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Two and a half months after the Confederate Army's drive into Union territory had been checked by the Federals at Gettysburg, the two armies met near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to dispute control of the west. Here they locked in the bloody battle of Chickamauga, one of the most hotly contested engagements of American history, and one of the most extraordinary. For two days -September 19 and 20, 1863 - 125,000 men struggled for the prize city of Chattanooga...
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"Gettysburg had everything," Henry S. Commager recently wrote. "It was the greatest battle ever fought on our continent; it boasts more heroic chapters than any other one battle. It was the high tide of the Confederacy." This is the way Glenn Tucker has always seen it and this is the way he reports it in High Tide at Gettysburg. The story of Gettysburg has never been told better, perhaps never so well as in this volume. Glenn Tucker has the immediacy...
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Frank Talley was a young industrious boy living in a well-to-do family until his parents, sister and brother were killed in an automobile accident while taking his older sister to start her college studies. His family's closest friends have a contract that in case of an accident to either set of parents, the remaining parents would serve as guardians to the others' children. He and Rosie, the daughter of his adoptive parents fall in love, but Frank...