Colonial Military

This is Vol. 2 – World War I to the Vietnam War Also available on Amazon...Vol. 1 - Colonial to Pre-World War I For nearly two centuries, the story of America has been written in conflict, sacrifice, innovation, and survival. From colonial militias standing against the British Empire to the jungles of Vietnam, American Military History traces the evolution of the United States Army and the nation it helped shape. Originally published as part of the official Army Historical Series, this massive historical volume offers a sweeping look at the campaigns, leaders, strategies, and turning ...

As Benjamin Franklin launched his kite into the lightning-streaked, rumbling skies of Philadelphia, a chicken was there. When Paul Revere rode out into the cloudless night to warn the patriots that an army marched at their doorsteps, a chicken was there. As a woman knelt on the cold, hard floor of a Baltimore brewery, stitching together the flag that would inspire a nation, a chicken was there. Now, for the first time ever, the chickens who witnessed the birth of a nation will tell their stories.

American Military History - From Colonial Militias to Vietnam This is Vol. 1 – Colonial to Pre-World War I Also available on Amazon...Vol. 2 – World War I to the Vietnam War For nearly two centuries, the story of America has been written in conflict, sacrifice, innovation, and survival. From colonial militias standing against the British Empire to the jungles of Vietnam, American Military History traces the evolution of the United States Army and the nation it helped shape. Originally published as part of the official Army Historical Series, this massive historical volume offers a ...

This is the fourth volume in the Forbes Road Series. A Conspiracy at the Forks of the Ohio! The ten years since Wend Eckert fled Pennsylvania at the order of the Cumberland County Sheriff have been good for him and his vivacious wife Peggy. On their farm near Winchester, Virginia, Wend’s gunsmithing trade has prospered and the couple have been welcomed into local society. But the year is now 1774, and everyone feels the cold shadow of growing tension with the King’s Government as the British Army occupies a defiant Boston to enforce the Intolerable Acts. British Governor Lord Dunmore ...

1879. The British Empire marches into Zululand, and disaster. Newly commissioned and untested, Second Lieutenant William Blackwood arrives from Monmouthshire to the wild frontier of South Africa, as Her Majesty’s forces prepare to crush the Zulu Kingdom. For Blackwood, it is meant to be the beginning of a proud military career: clean uniforms, sharp commands, and the steady march of empire. Instead, he finds confusion, chaos, and the first bitter lessons of war. Tasked with reinforcing a remote column of British and colonial troops, Blackwood is plunged into a campaign of dust-choked ...

Into Rhodesia Before there was Rhodesia... there were the pioneers. Long before roads, railways and towns appeared on the map, a handful of ordinary families loaded everything they owned onto ox wagons and headed into one of the most dangerous frontiers in Africa. They crossed flooded rivers, hacked wagon roads through virgin forest, climbed seemingly impassable mountains and endured disease, lions, drought and isolation in search of a better life. Many never returned. Based on the remarkable accounts of the men and women who lived through these extraordinary journeys, Into Rhodesia brings ...

The acclaimed seven-book series chronicling the adventures of the generations of the Treegate family from the birth of the Revolutionary War through the War of 1812, ending at the Battle of New Orleans. Recommended by the Seton Home Study Guide for Grade 8 for American History. John Treegate's Musket (Book 1) An epic historical adventure that takes young readers from The Boston Massacre to the Battle of Bunker Hill. When young Peter Treegate is framed for murder while his father is away on business, Peter is forced to flee Boston on a smuggler's brig, sending him on a series of adventures ...

George Washington’s Memoirs of a Life Forged in Liberty To narrate George Washington's life in his voice, providing readers with an intimate, first-person account of the pivotal events in his life, from his youth through war and nation-building to his final years, revealing the man behind the myth. George Washington’s personal journey from a young boy in Virginia to becoming the Father of His Country shows his internal thoughts and growth, providing an intimate first-person perspective. The American Revolution and Washington's military leadership are illustrated through key battles, ...

The Most Wounded Warrior in British Military History Shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. Survived two plane crashes. Tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp. Lost an eye and a hand, then pulled off his own mangled fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. His response to it all? "Frankly, I enjoyed the war." A True Story That Defies Belief Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC lived through what should have killed him a dozen times over. This meticulously researched biography unveils the astounding true story of Britain's most decorated and wounded ...

When Bresto's spec ops team boarded a derelict to rescue an undercover operative, they found themselves inside a Concordat forge ship, face to face with the ancient enemy that scoured Dead Earth centuries ago. They barely escaped, but something awoke inside that ship, and now it's coming for his home world Aegia. Bresto has seen what the Concordat do to the people they take. He fought the Lost—the twisted things that used to be human—aboard that derelict. Now, while commanders debate and politicians deny, he knows his family is running out of time.

Discover the Extraordinary True Story of America's First Free Black Community In 1738, decades before the American Revolution, a former slave named Francisco Menéndez achieved something historians once thought impossible: he founded and commanded North America's first legally sanctioned free Black settlement. Through groundbreaking archaeological discoveries and meticulous historical detective work, this remarkable biography brings to light one of America's most inspiring yet forgotten freedom fighters. From Chains to Command: An Epic Journey Across Empires Born in West Africa around 1700,...

Forged in Precision: The Evolution of the American Rifle Discover the captivating journey of the American rifle, a tool that has shaped the history, culture, and innovation of a nation. From its humble beginnings as a hunting instrument to becoming a symbol of freedom and technological ingenuity, this book dives deep into the evolution of the American rifle through history. Whether you’re a history enthusiast, a firearms expert, or a curious reader, this is the definitive guide to the fascinating transformation of rifles across centuries. How did a tool of survival evolve into a symbol of...

In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle."

The year is 1639. The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony records a bizarre aerial event over Boston's Muddy River —the first documented UFO report in American history. It would not be the last. For centuries, the skies over New England have been a stage for the unbelievable. This meticulously researched chronicle uncovers the region's most compelling and chilling encounters with the unknown. Journey from the Puritan world of supernatural omens to the Cold War paranoia of nuclear alert scrambles and discover the shocking truth hidden in forgotten archives and eyewitness testimony. ...

He traced his friend's name on a cold stone wall. Then he told her everything. Standing before the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an old veteran reaches back across centuries to tell his granddaughter the truth about where they came from. Not just a family history, but the story of an entire people built from the earth up, only to have it taken from them. The Acadians carved a life from wild coastland, built farms from saltwater marshes, and forged a culture entirely their own. But they lived between two empires, and that was a dangerous place to stand. When the English came, they did not come ...

March 1879. Zululand burns, and the fate of the frontier will be decided on the blood-red heights of Kambula. Second Lieutenant William Blackwood, marches north with the Monmouthshire Fusiliers as Her Majesty’s forces prepare to strike a hammer blow against the enemy. Assigned to Colonel Evelyn Wood’s elite flying column on the untamed frontier, Blackwood is swept into a relentless campaign of raids, skirmishes, and mountain warfare. Here, loyalty is measured in blood, and every patrol could be a man’s last. From the shattered ridges of Hlobane to the storm-wracked heights of Kambula,...

Fifteen-year-old Gabe and his sister Emma are swept into the American Revolution, where spies, soldiers, and the fight for freedom will change the United States forever. It's winter in New England and snow is falling on the American colonists. In a rustic cabin in the woods, Gabe and his sister Emma are left to fend for themselves when their father, a Son of Liberty, is arrested during the Boston Tea Party. After the British Army burns down their farm, the two siblings are swept into a journey that begins with Paul Revere's midnight ride and leads straight to the battlefields of Lexington ...

An Epic Chase in the Turbulent Opening Days of the American Revolution!The year is 1775: Britain's North American colonies have risen in revolt against King George and Parliament. In the wake of Lexington and Concord, George Washington commands a ragtag militia army besieging British occupied Boston. At Philadelphia, the Continental Congress is debating the future course of the colonies: Negotiated reconciliation or independence? Meanwhile, in Virginia, Royal Governor Lord Dunmore has fled Williamsburg but has assembled a strong force of loyalist troops fighting to reestablish his authority...

India, 1857. A British Army column marches through shoulder-high grass under the command of a colonel who has never seen combat. Sergeant Major William Croft knows the formation is wrong, the jungle is watching, and the things that took the scouts are not tigers. He is right about all of it. When sickle-clawed predators tear the column apart in minutes, Croft drags a handful of survivors to the crumbling Natherpur Outpost — where American paleontologist Abigail Harding has been studying bones that should not exist. What she knows about the creatures and what he knows about war will have ...

Dust and gunfire mark the march to Kandahar. After the disaster at Maiwand, Lieutenant William Blackwood marches with the Kabul Field Force under General Frederick Roberts on one of the most gruelling campaigns in British military history. Three hundred miles of dust, disease, and burning heat lie between them and the besieged city of Kandahar. The land itself becomes the enemy. Dust storms choke the column, dysentery ravages the ranks, and water is more precious than ammunition. Through it all, Blackwood and the men of B Company endure, marching beside Highlanders, Gurkhas, Sikhs, and ...