Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Guns of August (published in the UK as August 1914) is a 1962 book centered on the first month of World War I written by Barbara W. Tuchman. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict. The book's focus then becomes a military history of the contestants, chiefly the great powers.
Image Date listed [9] Location City or town Description 1: Reynoldsburg-Paris Road: August 7, 2005 : 5.0 miles northeast of Camden off Chestnut Hill Rd. Camden: A Trail of Tears site [10] 2: William Thompson House: William Thompson House
Late-19th century map showing Fort Blount in relation to Bledsoe's Station and other 18th-century outposts in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland region. In 1788, the governor of North Carolina commissioned the construction of a road to connect the Washington District of what is now East Tennessee with the Mero District in Middle Tennessee, to make it easier for travellers to cross the rugged ...
The regiment moved to Fort Morgan, Alabama on April 3, 1864. On August 12, 1864, Brigadier General Asboth, U.S.A., reported: "The garrison at Fort Morgan numbers 600 men, 400 from the 1st Alabama Artillery, 200 from the 1st Tennessee Artillery, with General Page in command, and determined to hold the fort till the last man."
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence. In Houston, another hard-hit city, the mayor supports banning assault rifles and high-capacity magazines but said, "I do not support restricting the right to continue to hold a legally obtained conceal to carry license ...
The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled in the past decade with Memphis leading the nation, a new report shows. Overall, the report released Thursday from gun safety group ...
Showing remarkable spunk for untested recruits, the Indiana foot soldiers formed a line about 1 mi (1.6 km) south of Walker's Ford and let the cavalry, [26] which was almost out of ammunition, [23] retreat through them. When Armstrong's cavalry attacked with artillery support, the Indianans and Patterson's guns repulsed them without much ...