The Great Boer War doc

... was hoped from the mediation of the heads of the Afrikander Bond, the political union of the Dutch Cape colonists. On the one hand, they were the kinsmen of the Boers; on the other, they were British ... aim. With the experience of the first Boer war behind them, little was done, either in tactics or in musketry, to prepare the soldier for the second. The value...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... p. 319. Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams The Project Gutenberg EBook of Great Britain and the American Civil War Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim ... they will be greatly swayed by their own interest, and the two Republics must be weighed, not by their professions or their previous history, but by the conduct they pu...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... the earth's movements. On the 20th of June the flood of summer heat overspreads the northern portions of the earth; the sun thence apparently turns southward, and with its departure the ... CHAPTER III. THE GREAT FORCES, THEIR CHARACTER AND OPERATIONS. I now ask, What is the intimate and inherent nature of those forces? Do they, or either of them, belong to the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20

... from the land of the white men that lieth beyond the great black water. The others are from the bor- ders of Prempeh's kingdom." "Art thou certain there are no spies among them?" ... continued our upward climb to the mystic City in the Clouds. 105 Chapter 20 THE GREAT WHITE QUEEN. Gaining the summit and entering the ponderous gate closely behind old...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... observed even in the early years of the Great Depression. G-20 leaders held their first crisis-related summit in November 2008. The goal was to understand the root causes of the global crisis ... Contents The bursting of the subprime mortgage market in the United States in 2008 and the ensuing global financial crisis were associated with a rapid decline in global trade....

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 19:20

... to the heavy swell of the Atlantic the majority of the grumblers were glad enough to seek the comfort and privacy of their berths and to remain there, for dur- ing the two days that followed the ... landed during the night, and Omar, advancing towards the Grand Vizier, asked: "Why do we not ascend the river further? We must cross to the other side if we would join...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... watched the drama to the end. They had now dragged the struggling hussar to the plank of the guillotine and thrown and bound him there. Very deliberately they pushed him beneath the great knife, ... THE GREAT WHITE ARMY *** Produced by Al Haines THE GREAT WHITE ARMY By Max Pemberton The Great White Army, by Max Pemberton 1 grave; our own footsteps upon the sward we...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... companies in the front, the other five on the left flank, and the Head should be in the left angle of the front. The first five companies of the second Battalion then should be placed on the right ... into their places between the cavalry and the wings of the Army. Then, into the voids left by them, enter the two bands of extraordinary pikemen which I had placed in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... guns, these wrecks upon the beds. Others like them are standing between us and the guns, others like them, who will reach us before morning. Wrecks like these. They are old men, most of them. The ... And there were many people there to wait upon him, but there was no one there to love him. There was no one there to see beyond the horror of the red, blind eye, of the dull, white ey...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... society. The apogee of this system, the centralised-militarised state of the inter -war years and the period immediately after the Second World War, embodied the moment of greatest power for the state ... Sub-Saharan Africa, in the former Soviet Union, and then, in the late 1990s, in the economic crisis of East and Southeast Asia. We then seek to gather together the t...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20