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Reproduction of the original: The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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By age 11, Arthur Cornwallis Harris III knows what he wants to be when he grew up: James Bond, his hero, was both a spy and a naval officer. At college and in the Navy ROTC, he begins an affair with a "kissing cousin," but work as an intelligence officer complicates his love life, because he must keep secrets. His romance has its dangers and his dangers have their own romance. Flying an F-4 Phantom jet in a dogfight over Cambodia, Arthur Cornwallis Harris III asks himself how a good, Catholic boy from Baptist southern Alabama wound up in such danger. His Boy Scout wilderness survival skills save his life after he is shot down in Cambodia, enabling him to fight, survive and escape through the...
"This work deals with Britain's last throw of the dice in the American Revolutionary War. Comprising six volumes, it contains a fully edited transcript of almost all the papers that were written by, or came before, Lord Cornwallis during his command in the south. The papers cover the siege of Charlestown, his tenuous occupation of South Carolina and Georgia, the autumn, winter and Virginia campaigns, and ultimately his capitulation at Yorktown. Among a mass of matters that are also covered are Craig's occupation of Wilmington, his operations there, the Spanish threat to East Florida, and the eventual collapse of British authority elsewhere in the south. The papers are arranged in 14 parts an...