19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Preface:
Preface
This little book will interest the Pittsburgher of 1916 chiefly because the parts and pieces of which it is made were written by men who were living here or who passed this way in 1816.
The three newspapers of the day—the Gazette, the Mercury, and the Commonwealth—have...
Mapping the Four Corners
Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying...
Rum Maniacs
Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismember the body of his mother. That memory, however graphic and horrifying, was not real. It was a hallucination, one of many suffered by the writer, caused by his addiction to alcohol.
In Rum...
by Mark Urban
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
History books report—and rightly so—that it was the strategic and intelligence-gathering brilliance of the Duke of Wellington (who began his military career as Arthur Wellesley) that culminated in Britain's defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in 1815. Nearly two hundred years later, many...
Executioner's Current
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.
In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age...
by John D. Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Mamma always had a way of treating everyone as a member of her own family, of giving warmth and comfort and love to people who had known little but loneliness and misfortune. And in the rugged Utah town of Adenville in the early years of this century, there were many who needed her compassion and...
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 12
Artillery: foot, horse and garrison artillery
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.18
Guards artillery, Engineers & General Staff
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
This volume is related to the Russian Army during the zar Alexander I era, and are about the Guard artillery, engineers and general Staff. Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact...
Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 13
Corps of Engineers: sappers, pioneers and garrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov, Mark Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 7
Flags and Standards 1796-1801
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 8
The grenadiers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...