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Across the Oceans
In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considere...
The Ketcheson Family
William K. Ketchison was born 7 July 1759 in Howden, Yorkshire, England. His parents were William Ketchison (1736-1763) and Sally Ayr. He emigrated in 1775 and settled in Virginia. He fought with the British in the American Revolution. He married Mary Rull (1761-1842) 16 March 1779 in Bedford, New York. They had ten children. They migrated to Canada in 1783 and settled first in Nova Scotia and then moved to Sidney, Ontario. William died in 1848 in Belleville, Ontario. Descendants and relatives lived throughout Ontario.
Mémoires du chef des services secrets de la France libre
Juin 1940: le capitaine Dewavrin, jeune polytechnicien, se retrouve en Angleterre avec les restes du corps expeditionnaire francais en Norvege. C'est l'un des rares officiers d'active a opter alors pour la France Libre. Autour de De Gaulle, tout est a faire. Dewavrin a vingt-neuf ans. Il ne connait rien aux services secrets. Il n'en deviendra pas moins, sous le nom de colonel Passy, l'une des figures legendaires de la lutte contre l'occupant allemand. C'est lui en effet qui, a Londres, creera et dirigera d'une main de fer un service de renseignements, de contre-espionnage et d'operations capable de piloter l'action de resistance sur le continent, mais aussi de tenir la dragee haute aux Britanniques. Bref: d'incarner une France souveraine. Il y contribuera sans relache, jusqu'en avril 1944. Voici un document exceptionnel sur ce combat, dans une nouvelle edition presentee et annotee par Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac.
