Stargate atlantis allegiance (legacy book 3), Melissa Scott, Scott Amy Griswold, Griswold
Автор: Scott Melissa, Griswold Amy Название: Death by Silver ISBN: 1590210557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590210550 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17650.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Hurwitz Jerald P. Название: Alamo of the Revolution: Benedict Arnold and the Massacre at Fort Griswold ISBN: 1682619532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682619537 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 12870.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Before the British surrendered at Yorktown, Benedict Arnold led 1,800 British troops on a punitive expedition to destroy the American privateer base in New London. The result was a bloody assault by the British on Fort Griswold and the near massacre of its defenders. In July of 1781, an American privateer sailing out of New London, Connecticut captured the British merchantman the Hanna, loaded with a bounty of luxury goods destined for British officers based in New York City. That action induced the British supreme leader of British forces in America to grant permission to the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold to lead an 1,800-man punitive amphibious expedition to destroy the American privateer base in New London. Being a native of the region, Arnold--a former American general--had intimate knowledge of the port and its defenses, including the most powerful fortification defending the harbor from Groton Heights Fort Griswold. So important was the fort that Arnold dedicated half of his expeditionary force to landing on the east side of the Thames River, for the sole purpose of capturing the fort and putting its heavy cannon out of commission. But Arnold miscalculated and misapprehended the strength of the fort and its defenders. That misperception would have grievous consequences for the fort's British attackers and their outnumbered American defenders. The defenders numbered around 161, made up of some forty members of the regular garrison and some volunteers from the privateers' crews, including a member of the Pequot tribe. The bulk of the defenders were citizen volunteers from Groton and nearby towns. Virtually all males of local families, aged anywhere from twelve to seventy, defended the fort. In the end, the attackers suffered close to two hundred casualties. The patriots faced catastrophic losses amounting more than 80 percent with half the defenders slain outright. This is a story of that long forgotten stubborn defense by American patriots and the unusual and unforeseen circumstances that turned the assault into a bloodbath--the most sanguinary battle ever witnessed on the soil of Connecticut.
Автор: Adamson Deb Название: Florence Griswold: The Keeper of the Artists ISBN: 1935656619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781935656616 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds
The tenth parallel--the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator--is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world's 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where the two religions meet; their encounter is shaping the future of each faith, and of whole societies as well.
An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in The Tenth Parallel show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about land, water, oil, and other natural resources, and that local and tribal issues are often shaped by religious ideas. Above all, she makes clear that, for the people she writes about, one's sense of God is shaped by one's place on earth; along the tenth parallel, faith is geographic and demographic.
An urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly power, The Tenth Parallel is an essential work about the conflicts over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the world in the years to come.
Автор: Griswold Wick, Major Ruth Название: Connecticut River Shipbuilding ISBN: 1467144479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781467144476 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20220.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
