THE Author and Undertaker of this ever memorable Expedition was Philip II. King of Spain, eldest Son of the renowned Emperor Charles V. In the Year 1554, he married Mary I. Queen of England, with a View of uniting, by this Marriage, the EnglishDominions to those large and noble Territories of which he was Heir-Apparent. But all his Projects were defeated by a False-Conception the Queen had in 1555; and especially by her Death, which happened on Novemb. 17, 1558.—In 1555, October 25, he bec...

In "The Spanish Armada, 1588," John Pine offers a meticulously researched account of one of the most pivotal maritime conflicts in history. Pine employs a blend of narrative history and analytical commentary, immersing readers in the tumultuous political and naval context of late 16th-century Europe. He carefully details the strategic ambitions of Spain and England, exploring the tactical decisions that shaped the course of the conflict. His well-crafted prose brings to life the tension ab...

Fairy Twoteeth and the Tooth Fairy is the first in a series of Granddad Ray-Ray books. His stories are designed to be fun to read to small kids, and should be developed and added to by the reader to make them especially relevant to the listener. Grand parents especially can use them as a vehicle to add in details that are relevant to each story about their own children the listeners parents. In this books story, for example, memories about the first time one of their children lost a tooth ...

The first book devoted to a critically important aspect of disaster planning, management, and mitigationTechnology and Emergency Management, Second Edition describes best practices for technology use in emergency planning, response, recovery, and mitigation. It also describes the key elements that must be in place for technology to enhance the emergency management process. The tools, resources, and strategies discussed have been applied by organizations wo...

The impacts of natural and man-made disasters have increased exponentially over the past few decades. Moreover, with our global interconnectedness and the growing scale of disasters, today's catastrophic disasters can have regional, national, and even global economic consequences.Following in the tradition of the successful first edition, Hazards Analysis: Reducing the Impact of Disasters, Second Edition provides a structure and process for understanding the nature...

A first-hand account by one of the participants in the epoch shaping battle of Austerlitz, in December 1805. Accounted by many to be Napoleon's finest victory, this account is alleged to contain his own commentaries in the text by Major-General von Stutterheim. Von Stutterheim's text is balanced and free from bias despite being written by a serving member of the Austrian military. Added to the text are the notes of a "French officer", most likely to have been Napoleon himself, who dissects...

The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Pines’s long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its applications.John Schlapobersky, editor, is a well-established author who organised the collection in: History; Development of Method; Metapsychology/Neurology; Final Papers. The compilation distils the life’s work of a pioneer in many fields - psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, group analyst, editor and author....

A short but very useful account of Napoleon's most brilliant campaign as Emperor, culminating in smashing the Third Coalition against France. Lt.-Col. Burton dispenses with the extraneous elements and focuses primarily on the actions of Napoleon as he guides his troops from Boulogne, where they have been training for an invasion of Britain, to face his Austrian and Russian foes across the Rhine.Another excellent volume in the Special Campaigns series produced around the turn of the ...

J. T. Headley was born at the very end of the convulsive period of the French revolution and Napoleonic Wars that followed, and wrote a number of volumes on the French army and its leadership of the period. This volume is a short and pithy, none the less entertaining, account of the structure, growth and battles of the famed Garde Impériale of Napoleon.Starting with the formation of the Guard from the early days in its form as the Consular Guard and their baptism of fire at Marengo....

Few of Napoleon's Marshals have been involved in such controversy as the son of a cooper from Sarrelouis, Michel Ney. His reputation has been argued over fiercely by military historians, Bonapartists, revisionists and romantics for almost two centuries since his untimely demise at the hands of his own countrymen in the gardens of the Luxembourg.This volume paints a sympathetic picture of Marshal Ney, drawing on the memoirs of his subordinates and Général Bonnal's Vie Militaire du Ma...

At the beginning of 1806, Napoleon could feel rather satisfied with his conquests, although the Russian Bear had been brutally beaten and the Austrian Eagle damaged beyond repair after the carnage of Austerlitz. However lurking to the north were the inheritors of Frederick the Great's legacy of Rossbach and Leuthen, their sullen neutrality during 1805 had been bought by the price of the annexation of Hanover, the Prince-elector of which sat on the British throne. It would only be a matter ...

"As a piece of historical research, this is a force majeure . . . a must read for anyone interested in the Napoleonic Wars" by the author of Waterloo ( Federation of Family History Societies ).The Battle of Quatre Bras was critical to the outcome of the Waterloo campaign—to the victory of the allied armies of Wellington and Blücher, the defeat of the French and the fall of Napoleon. But it has been overshadowed by the two ...