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This volume covers the high noon of the British Empire, beginning with the Zulu War of 1879 and ending with Kitchener's River War of 1898. Between these came the 2nd Afghan War, the first Boer War, and Wolseley's Egyptian and Nile campaigns. Also described in some detail is the Cavalry's part in the campaigns against Osman Digna in the Eastern Sudan.

A survey of the historical and international aspects of colonial rule in Africa.

The period at which this History commences,—the beginning of the sixteenth century,—when compared with the ages which had preceded it, since the fall of the Roman empire, was one of unprecedented brilliancy and activity. It was a period very fruitful in great men and great events, and, though...

Churchill's Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946. Having first helped bring victory to the Allies in 1945, Churchill went on to preserve the freedom of the world by gaining the support of the...

Herein is collection of twelve very different short stories, each in its own way illustrating the ability of our old friend Fate to interfere with the best-laid plans that we humans can devisesometimes for the good, and sometimes for the disastrously bad. For example, A Royal Issue tells of the kings...

Commencing in 2001, the Europa Lecture has become a high-profile fixture on the EU-New Zealand calendar. As witnessed by the fifteen lectures reproduced in this new volume, the speakers were selected for both their high-level profile as well as their importance to this bilateral dialogue. This volume...

Translated from the Portuguese, and edited, with notes and an introduction. For a revised edition, see Second Series 114, 115. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1881.

A Saturdays child, the author has had many jobs since beginning to support himself at age 16. Grocery and bank clerk before the Second World War, Coast Guard seaman, merchant marine A., and army landing craft coxswain during it, and teacher-counselor for thirty years after the war. While teaching,...

We have seen how the cloister life of the Middle Ages developed meditative habits of mind, which were followed by a spirit of inquiry on deep theological questions. We have now to consider a great intellectual movement, stimulated by the effort to bring philosophy to the aid of theology, and thus...

Marcus Tullius Cicero is one of the great lights of history, because his genius and influence were directed to the conservation of what was most precious in civilization among the cultivated nations of antiquity. He was not a warrior, like so many of the Roman Senators, but his excellence was higher...

Die alte Villa in den Hügeln von Valencia scheint für Emma der perfekte Rückzugsort zu sein: Der verwilderte Garten duftet nach Orangenblüten, die Leute im Dorf sind hilfsbereit und schon bald eröffnet die gelernte Parfümeurin einen Blumenladen. Doch warum vermachte ihre verstorbene Mutter ihr...

What if you found out that ----- *-----There is a deadly disease out there right now. *-----This disease infects 3300 new female victims & their families every single day. *-----This disease affects every part of your life, & can even KILL you. *-----Someone you...

In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins – Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust – have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really believed they could go to Hell for all eternity,...

Extrait : "C'était le soir de l'une des plus tristes journées du mois de novembre. Sept heures sonnèrent d'une voix retentissante à l'horloge du Timbre royal, comme je traversais le boulevard des Capucines enveloppé magnifiquement, et bien mieux que par mon manteau, dans les plis d'un épais brouillard,...