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John Montgomery, Revolutionary Fifer
Thirteen-year-old John Montgomery is told he is too young to become a soldier when both his father and fifteen-year-old brother sign up to fight the British Redcoats in 1777. Its true that the colonists desperately need soldiers, but they also need fifers, and thats where John knows he can contribute. He understands that fifers play an important role in battles; fifers are the soldiers who pipe orders to the men. Fifersand drummers, toolead the army into battle, and he could do that. During his five years of army service as a fifer, he participates in many battles, including the pivotal Guildford Court House Battle. As John comes of age during the war, he learns about sacrifice, thoughtfulness, and kindness while he fights his own battle against homesickness. Based on a true story, John Montgomery, Revolutionary War Fifer shows the heroics of the men who became soldiers as they fought alongside other colonists to obtain their freedom from the British.
The Adventures of John Montgomery
Like Julio Cortazar, Homero Aridjis, John Barth and other masters of the new historical novel, Tom Marshall tells the story of Canada -- from the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 through the Rebellion of 1837 to the Flq Crisis of 1970 and the Oka Crisis of 1990 -- as a high adventure in a self-referential style. At the center of this story is John Montgomery, who served under Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights, courted Laura Secord, hosted the launching of the 1837 Rebellion in his tavern, was imprisoned at Fort Henry in Kingston, escaped to Rochester, and after years in exile returned to Canada to, become the patriarch of a long line of distinguished authors, including Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) and the author of this, book. With the historical license that is characteristic of this genre, Tom Marshall portrays Sir Isaac Brock as a gay general and presents Dan Ackroyd and the Tragically Hip on the same historical stage.
Quest for Flight
The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history’s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the ...
Achieving Flight
Most Americans are aware that the Wright brothers had been the first to fly a powered Flying Machine in 1903. But John J. Montgomery was the first to fly a glider of his own design in 1883, a full twenty years before the Wright brothers. Achieving Flight, by John G. Burdick and Bernard J. Burdick, provides an historic and scientific assessment of the role of John J. Montgomery (1858-1911), one of Californias own, in the early years of flight in America. It tells the story of Montgomery, an eminent scientist whose achievements in aeronautics and electricity have largely been forgotten. This biography narrates how, during his days as a student at St. Ignatius College, he was fortunate to be in...
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History, Law, and Christianity
A stirring defense of the faith by one of Christianity's ablest defenders, this is a re-issue of the classic "History and Christianity" expanded to include Dr. Montgomery's essay "Christianity Juridically Defended." Dr. John Montgomery, scholar, theologian and apologist for the faith, developed this book from a seminar he presented at the University of British Columbia. Readable and convincing, the book is divided into four sections: Section One deals with four basic errors usually committed by those who attack the historicity of the New Testament.Section Two defends the accuracy of the New Testament documents, using tests which are commonly applied to any ancient document.Section Three, ent...
Sonnetcetera
John Montgomery was born and raised in South Africa, spent eight years in the U.S.A. and has lived in the U.K. since 1990. He has always had a passion for both his language and the arts, and is well known for his ability to measure and reach others. He is particularly taken with the discipline and efficiency of the structure of the sonnet, and has tended to document much of his life and his emotional experience through this preferred medium. He has chosen now to share some of these diaries in the hope that he might convey just a part of his personal journey to others.
