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Failure to Pursue
Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? From the outset, both North and South had anticipated a brief conflict but despite more than 50 bloody battles neither could force a decisive conclusion. For most of the war, these battles followed a pattern: the victors claimed the field and the vanquished retreated to rest, resupply and fight another day. Some generals began to realize that pursuit to capture or destroy the retreating enemy was needed to end the war--not an easy task. Taking a fresh look at the tactics that characterized many major combat actions in the war, this book examines the performance of unsuccessful (sometimes insubordinate) commanders and credits two generals with eventually seeing the need for organized pursuit.
Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries
Incunabula of the Low Countries (ILC) is a census of fifteenth-century books printed in the area of the present-day Netherlands and Belgium. It lists 2,229 editions in more than 14,300 copies preserved in hundreds of libraries, museums, and archives all over the world, but mainly in Europe and the USA. The entries for this census have been derived from the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), the database of incunabula compiled at the British Library. They combine research on Low Countries incunabula carried out by Gerard van Thienen, curator at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, with data assembled by ISTC form other sources. ISTC entries were further edited, indexed and prepared for publication by John Goldfinch at the British Library. Campbell's Annales of 1874, the first bibliography of incunabula printed in the Low Countries with 1794 entries, was followed by a number of supplements of increasing complexity, the most extensive being published by M.E. Kronenberg in 1956. All the former additions and emendations, together with additions not otherwise listed before are now brought together and included in one sequence in ILC.
Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Preußen. Münzen und Medaillen
Die frühesten Münzen Brandenburgs, geprägt zunächst unter der Herrschaft slawischer Fürsten, dann unter den Markgrafen aus dem Haus der Askanier, sind Brakteaten und Denare. Die preußische Münzgeschichte erfasst den Zeitraum von der Königskrönung Friedrichs III., des Kurfürsten von Brandenburg und Herzogs in Preußen, zum König in Preußen im Jahr 1701 bis zum 2. Reichsmünzgesetz im Jahr 1873. Friedrich und seine Nachfolger ließen als Inhaber des Münzregals Goldmünzen (Dukaten) und die größeren Silbermünzen als preußische Könige und Kurfürsten von Brandenburg (bis 1806) für alle ihre Besitzungen prägen, aus denen sich im 18. Jahrhundert der Staat Preußen entwickelte. Die häufigsten Nominale waren 3- VI- und 18- Groschenmünzen. Dagegen wurden die Kleinmünzen nicht für die Provinzen vereinheitlicht, sondern in zum Teil vonei-nander abweichenden Systemen geprägt. Für Brandenburg wurden Pfennige und vor allem 1 Groschenmünzen (als 1/48 Taler) und Zweigroschenmünzen (als 1/48 Taler) geprägt.
Longstreet at Gettysburg
This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreet's record has been discredited unfairly, beginning with character assassination by his contemporaries after the war and, persistently, by historians in the decades since. By closely studying the three-day battle, and conducting an incisive historiographical inquiry into Longstreet's treatment by scholars, this book presents an alternative view of Longstreet as an effective military leader, and refutes over a century of negative evaluations of his performance.
