18Th Century category: 835 books
by M.S. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this series of major conflicts (1740-48) involved far more than just the fate of the Habsurgs: soon, Austria, Prussia, France, Britain, Spain, Bavaria, Saxony and the Netherlands...
The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759
Hawke and the Defeat of the French Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Revered naval theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, thought the Battle of Quiberon Bay (20 Nov 1759) was as significant as Nelson's victory in 1805, calling it 'the Trafalgar of this war [the Seven Years War]'. Arguably it was even more vital. Britain in 1759 was much less well-defended, with virtually no...
by Carolly Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Acclaim for Carolly Erickson "Carolly Erickson is one of the most accomplished and successful historical biographers writing in English." -The Times Literary Supplement The First Elizabeth "Even more readable and absorbing than the justly praised works of Tuchman and Fraser. A vivid...
Gibraltar
The Greatest Siege in British History
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France—an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution
For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded,...
by James Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress...
Jefferson on Freedom
Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Thomas Jefferson is most famous for the writing of the Declaration of Independence, which espouses the general principles of freedom and democracies that Americans hold dear. Now, collected here for the first time, is this historical American document, as well as several of his other famous writings....
The Elementary Common Sense of Thomas Paine
An Interactive Adaptation for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Few books or pamphlets have had as much influence on the course of human history as Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. The Declaration of Independence severed political bonds with England, but it was Paine’s dynamic pamphlet that conceptualized the idea of unity and freedom months before Thomas Jefferson...
Ticonderoga Soldierelijah Estabrooks Journal 1758-1760
A Massachusetts Provincial Soldier in the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
The French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years' War), was fought between 1754 and 1763. One of the major battles in the North American campaign was fought at Fort Carillon, also known as Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga had been erected by the French in New York in 1755, on a site which...
American Spring
Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals
When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured...
by Sheilah Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This ebook prequel to the author's upcoming novel, Becoming Valley Forge (Feb. 2013), tells the little-known and moving story of General George Washington's and the Continental Army's six day encampment on Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills, six miles from Valley Forge, on December 13, 1777...
Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to...
by Michael G Laramie
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
From Champlain and Hudson's initial voyages some 400 years ago, to the surrender of Montreal in 1760, The European Invasion of North America: Colonial Conflict Along the Hudson - Champlain Corridor, 1609–1760 offers unprecedented coverage of the 150-year struggle between New World rivals along this...
The Speedicut Papers Book 6 (1879–1884)
Vitai Lampada
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Book 6 of The Speedicut Papers covers the period 1879-1885 during which time Speedicut is reluctantly involved in a series of British colonial and Imperial disasters in Afghanistan, South Africa, Egypt and the Sudan. Whist not ducking shot, shell and spears, Speedicut indulges deeply in such pleasures (usually of the carnal variety) that are on offer.
A Few Lawless Vagabonds
Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A Few Lawless Vagabondsis an account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (1777–1791) and the British in Canada during the American Revolution, a work of political and military history. Ethan Allen was a prime mover in the establishment of the Republic (though...