War & Military
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
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Robert Mearns Yerkes
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
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…
Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu
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Gordon D. Gayle
On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lu…
From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War
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Jon T. Hoffman
In February 1942, Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, ordered the creation of a new unit designated the 1…
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…
The Western Boundary, and Other Essays
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Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons
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Charles D. Melson
In December that year (1942), patrol flights taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and from the decks of U.S. fleet carriers in the…