26 results for 'James Wellington'

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks,...

Title: Ode on the Death of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of...

The book gives an account of the extraordinary life of Sir James Lyon who was born posthumously on board a transport ship returning to England after the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775). The greater part...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal...

Award-winning haiku poet James Deahl teams up with photographer Richard M. Grove/Tai to create a volume of haiku sequences and photographs celebrating the beauty of Ontario, especially Hastings and...

When seventeen-year-old Princess Lorelle’s country is attacked by King Maurice of Alandar, she must flee for her life across the sea to Julinar, leaving her beloved parents and home behind. On...

The 'Red Men' of the Bengal Horse Artillery on CampaignJames Young was a young officer in the early days of the corps d'elite that was The Bengal Horse Artillery. In the first years of the nineteenth...

Journalism at its very best: Noel Young, Sunday Mail, ScotlandIn search of the world’s greatest stories my hands have held Einstein’s brain and Hitler’s golden gun. My foot has...

Autumn 1820. From Mayfair to Covent Garden to Seven Dials, London is in an uproar over George IV's (the former prince regent) attempts to divorce his wife Queen Caroline. And nowhere is the...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve...

Wairaka Point is a gripping narrative based on actual events. The subjects and settings are diverse: New Zealand, legal investigation, rabies, fathers, US Marines, heroic women, Maori, ambiguity,...

Raisin Bread Toastand other collected tales of fantasticaMICHAELGLOCKwas born in Newtown, just outside of Lyall Bay and next to Kilbirnie, where he bought his first pair of cowboy boots. On Saturday...

FOI laws are important in democracy because they guarantee the 'right to know'. It exists in more than 90 countries and helps to expose corruption and maladministration, and assures transparency in...

"One cannot help but be struck by the degree to which he (George Orwell) became, in Henry James's words, one of those upon whom nothing was lost. By declining to lie, even as far as possible to...

The second line West Riding Division was formed at the beginning of 1915, its infantry component consisted of a brigade of W Yorks, a brigade of Duke of Wellingtons, and a mixed brigade of KOYLI and...

The second line West Riding Division was formed at the beginning of 1915, its infantry component consisted of a brigade of W Yorks, a brigade of Duke of Wellingtons, and a mixed brigade of KOYLI and...

This volume contains the novels of perhaps the greatest British writer of the twentieth century, including two of the prophetically chilling works of the twentieth century‑‑Animal...

 "A delightfully humorous and caustic satire on the rule of the many by the few." Animal Farm,  The Guardian."I do not think I have ever read a novel more frightening and...

Stephen Hudson (1868 - 29 October 1944) is a pseudonym of the British novelist and translator Sydney Schiff, whose work was published in the 1910s, '20s, and '30s. With a substantial income from his...