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(0)William C Davis
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xv, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida-what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida-to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe's endless territorial contests. So it was left to the settlers, bristling at Spanish misrule, to establish a foothold in the area. Enter the Kemper brothers, whose vigilante justice culminated in a small band of American residents drafting a constitution and establishing...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 706 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the US Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who shopped for contraband at their well-publicized auctions, the brothers became important members of a filibustering syndicate that included lawyers, bankers,...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 791 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis-the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history-and about what really happened in that battle.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xi, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive history of the Confederacy moves beyond military events to examine legal structures, politics, social structures, and the economy of the South during the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxi, 629 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
They met in person only four times, yet these two men - Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - determined the outcome of America's most divisive war and cast larger-than-life shadows over their reunited nation. They came from vastly different backgrounds: Lee from a distinguished family of waning fortunes; Grant, a young man on the make in a new America. Differing circumstances colored their outlooks on life: Lee, the melancholy realist; Grant, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled during this time...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xi, 354 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
No historian has been able to capture so elegantly the factors influencing the formation of the state of Texas. Three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award, William C. Davis precisely describes the spirit of the times during this momentous period. The conflicts between Anglo Texans, native Tejanos, and Mexican officials that led to war come to life with invigorating detail.
Author
Series
Imperiled Union volume 2
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
xix, 359 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Imperiled Union volume 1
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) First blood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When in the early 1800s U.S. President Thomas Jefferson ordered a mission of exploration westward from St. Louis, Missouri, he inspired the emergence of a nation in a momentous century of migration and settlement. Thousands of explorers and hunters, settlers and opportunists, lawless and law-abiding eventually became millions joining the spread into the new territories of the American frontier. They faced incredible hardships and had to overcome fearsome...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 34 cm.
Language
English
Description
The histories of thirteen of the greatest and bloodiest battles of America's Civil War, told through the events that shaped them and the lives of the men that fought in them. Volume features color photographs of uniforms, weapons, flags and ordnance from the Civil War, together with contemporary photographs and full-color maps of the battles themselves.