War & Military

Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 1

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Otto von Bismarck and Otto Von Bismarck


A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 2 of 4

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Parker Thomas Moon


Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…

A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

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Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman


It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…

Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands

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John C. Chapin


By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1909 - 1912)

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William Howard Taft


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827

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Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs


Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…

The Life of Frederick William von Steuben

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Friedrich Kapp


The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…

Shout Treason: the Trial of Aaron Burr

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Francis F. Beirne


Much has been written about Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and other founding fathers who were at the center of United States v…

Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan

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John C. Chapin


The [15 June 1944] campaign on Saipan…brought many American casualties, and it also heralded the kind of fighting which would be experienced…

The Greek War of Independence (1821-1827)

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Charles D. Chambers


Written in the style and language of Thucydides, and intended for students in the early stages of learning to read Ancient Greek, this brief…

The Sailor's Word-book, H - M

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William Henry Smyth


A digest of sea terms and phrases, including flora, fauna, fish, fowl and fable of the sea, weaponry aboard ship, parts of a ship, qualities…

Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence

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Benson John Lossing


Lossing's Biographical Sketches of the Signers contains short descriptions of the Lives of the Signers from this well-respected American his…

With Porter in the Essex

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James Otis


The marvelous cruise of the U.S.S. Essex, the United States frigate of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain David Porter. A story of his f…

Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno

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Bernard C. Nalty


On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…

Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense

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William Lendrum Mitchell


William (Billy) Mitchell was a U.S. Army officer who, during World War I, came to command all U.S. Army air operations in France. He became …

The Capture of Fort William and Mary

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Charles Lathrop Parsons


The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …

The Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864

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William Ludlow


This is an account of the Union army's strategies and activities in protecting a Union garrison at Allatoona in Bartow Country, Georgia duri…

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