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    The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1265min
    The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing audiobook makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of 10 prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The audiobook concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gildart Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/003399/bk_tant_003399_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Long, Obstinate, and Bloody , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 586min
    On 15 March 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at the Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. Although victorious, Cornwallis declared the conquest of the Carolinas impossible. He made the fateful decision to march into Virginia, eventually leading his army to the Yorktown surrender and clearing the way for American independence. In the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse engagement, Lawrence Babits and Joshua Howard - drawing from hundreds of previously underutilized pension documents, muster rolls, and personal accounts - piece together what really happened on the wooded plateau in what is today Greensboro, North Carolina. They painstakingly identify where individuals stood on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they could have seen, thus producing a bottom-up story of the engagement. The authors explain or discount several myths surrounding this battle while giving proper place to long-forgotten heroic actions. They elucidate the actions of the Continentals, British regulars, North Carolina and Virginia militiamen, and the role of American cavalry. Their detailed and comprehensive narrative extends into individual combatants' lives before and after the Revolution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rene Ruiz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001742/bk_adbl_001742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    County seats in Virginia
    County seats in Virginia ab 25.99 € als Taschenbuch: Yorktown Virginia Charlottesville Virginia Williamsburg Virginia Fairfax Virginia Martinsville Virginia Warsaw Virginia Lexington Virginia Manassas Virginia Winchester Virginia Harrisonburg Virginia Christiansburg. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Star Trek: Designing Starships Volume 3: The Kelvin Timeline
    The third volume in this acclaimed series focuses on the J.J. Abram's Star Trek films - featuring nearly 20 ships, including the new Enterprise! Explore the process behind the creation of the ships features in the Star Trek, Star Trek: Into Darkness and Star Trek: Beyond films. This is the story of how some of the most talented designers in Hollywood created STAR TREK's starships from the first sketches to the finished models that appeared on screen. This book covers nearly 20 new ships from the modern STAR TREK movies, from the new Enterprise to a fleet of Federation ships that was barely seen. Along the way it covers the thinking behind Klingon and Romulan ships and the heavily-armed U.S.S. Vengeance. This third volume in the Designing the Starships series collects the profiles and design history from the rebooted Star Trek "Kelvin Timeline" film universe. The "Kelvin Timeline" is an alternate reality timeline in which the current Star Trek film universe operates. It is named after the ship captained by Captain Kirks father in the first of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek films, the U.S.S. Kelvin. Ships included: U.S.S. Enterprise, U.S.S. Enterprise-A, Narada, U.S.S. Kelvin, Spock's Jellyfish, U.S.S. Yorktown Space Station, and many more. Includes 6 ships that were designed for the final sequence of Star Trek: Beyond which were not used and have never been seen before.
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    Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
    Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems ab 63.99 € als pdf eBook: 10th International Conference CPAIOR 2013 Yorktown Heights NY USA May 18-22 2013. Proceedings. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Computer & Internet,
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    This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 673min
    An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation. A companion to Pancake's study of the northern campaign, 1777: The Year of the Hangman, this volume deals with the American Revolution in the Carolinas. Together, the two books constitute a complete history of the Revolutionary War. Pancake tells a gripping story of the southern campaign, the scene of a grim and deadly guerilla war. In the savage internecine struggle, Americans fought Americans with a fierceness that appalled even a veteran like General Nathanael Greene. "Utilizing extensive manuscript collections, John Pancake explains not why the colonists won the War of Independence, but rather why the British lost. Yorktown, he argues, was not the result of a momentary oversight by the British navy, but the final consequence of the longstanding failure of British military and political leadership." So said the Journal of Southern History when This Destructive War was first published in 1985. The Florida Historical Quarterly further opined, "Pancake has given us a well-researched and beautifully - and tightly - written book." General audiences as well as scholars and students of the American Revolution will welcome anew this classic, definitive study of the campaign in the Carolinas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas R. Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081153/bk_acx0_081153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution 1775-83
    The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution 1775-83 ab 17.49 € als pdf eBook: In Association with The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
    Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems ab 66.49 € als Taschenbuch: 10th International Conference CPAIOR 2013 Yorktown Heights NY USA May 18-22 2013. Proceedings. Auflage 2013. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Ratgeber, Computer & Internet,
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    Census-designated places in Virginia
    Census-designated places in Virginia ab 28.49 € als Taschenbuch: Yorktown Virginia Reston Virginia Mount Vernon Virginia Chantilly Virginia Chester Virginia Merrimac Virginia Penhook Virginia Weyers Cave Virginia Shawsville Virginia Elliston-Lafayette Virginia Dahlgren Virginia. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    This Sceptered Isle: Empire, Volume 2: 1783-1876, Hörbuch, Digital, 440min
    This is Volume 2 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. BBC Radio 4's monumental history of Britain picks up the story of the British Empire at the point where the American colonies have become the United States of America with their triumph over General Cornwallis and the British army at Yorktown in 1781. These are the years when British influence grew steadily around the globe, years when Britain took full advantage of the technical advances of its industrial revolution until it could be truly said that its Empire was one on which the sun never set. Here are the origins of the modern nations of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and of the ways in which British influence has affected, for better or for worse, nations such as India, Sri Lanka, and China. Here are the stories, not always happy and glorious, of Captain James Cook, Mungo Park, Warren Hastings, Sir Stamford Raffles, and David Livingstone. This part of the story culminates in Queen Victoria being proclaimed Empress of India in 1876, the central symbol of some of the most potent imperial imagery. But just as the Empire itself was built not as the result of any grand plan, so the seeds of its twentieth century move towards independence from Britain were simultaneously and unwittingly being sown. Language: English. Narrator: various. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/000942/bk_bbcw_000942_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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