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Essays in military biography by Charles Cornwallis Chesney
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Gaa .642
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesney, Charles Cornwallis, 1826-1876.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military biography.
- China--History--Taiping.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 398 p. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Holt, 1874.
- Contents:
- The military life of General Grant
- A memoir of General Lee
- Admirals Farragut and Porter and the navy of the Union
- A northern raider in the civil war
- De Fezenszc's recollections of the grand army
- Henry von Brandt, a German soldier of the first empire
- Cornwallis and the Indian services
- a Carolina loyalist in the revolutionary war- Sir William Gordon of Gordon's battery
- Chinese Gordon and the Taipig rebellion.
- Notes:
- On t.-p. of the English edition, London, 1874: Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh review'.
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