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Unruly Waters
Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation’s rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology.
Army Directory
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6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in the Great War
The 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, was a prewar Territorial unit. Many of its members held white collar positions employed by the Citys legal, financial and stockbroking practices or worked for the major commercial organizations trading and manufacturing cotton goods. It went overseas in September 1914, taking with it many new recruits who would undertake their basic training whilst the Battalion formed part of the British garrison in Egypt.It saw action at Gallipoli from May 1915 until the evacuation at the end of the year and fascinating campaign is dealt with in considerable detail. The Battalion returned to Egypt until the spring of 1917 when it moved to France.The Manchesters s...
The Turnbull Pedigree
Albert Turnbull’s clear and thorough geneaogical research, which has established the link to Edward III’s third son, the Duke of Clarence.
Army Directory
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Report of Special Committee on Volunteering, Embracing a Complete Statement of Operations in Filling the Quota of the County of New York Under the Call of the President, Dated July 18, 1864, for 500,000 Men
Report includes financial statements of bounties paid to volunteers, a listing of persons who deposited money with the Committee in order to obtain substitutes for them, a listing of the substitutes for Army and Navy service by Congressional District, a listing of Army Volunteers in 1864, a listing of reenlistments, and naval recruits.
A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800
This dictionary identifies over 6000 British and Irish travellers who toured in Italy in the 18th century. Compiled from the archive accumulted by Sir Brinsley Ford, it provides brief formal biographies of these travellers, their Italian itineries and selective accounts of their experiences.
U.S. Army Register
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