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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Commissioner T. Henry Howard, the subject of the following interesting and discerning sketch, was for more than forty years an active and influential Staff Officer of The Salvation Army. His service thus coincides with the period which includes what may be called the turbulent years of The Army's youth and also the more confident and fruitful years of our early maturity. He saw the life of our Movement as a whole, first with the eyes of an outsider -- sympathetic and appreciative, but still an outsider -- and then as an insider who had full opportunity to see all there might be to see.
The result is more or less revealed in this book. He sought in humility and prayer that the spirit of The Army might rest upon him, and The Army in turn took him to its heart, and poured of its riches of love and zeal into his life.
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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1902Original Publisher: Street ... Read more

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign. A pioneering poet, whose verse had a profound impact on Shakespeare, Surrey was nevertheless branded by one contemporary as 'the most foolish proud boy that is in England'. He was the heir of England's premier nobleman, first cousin to two of Henry VIII's wives - Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard - and best friend and brother-in-law to the King's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy. Celebrated for his chivalrous deeds both on and off the battlefield, Surrey became, at only twenty-eight, the King's Lieutenant General in France. But his confident exterior masked insecurity and loneliness. A man of intriguing contradictions, Surrey was both law enforcer and law breaker, political conservative and religious reformer and his life, replete with drunken escapades, battlefield heroics, conspiracy and courtroom drama, sheds new light on the opulence and artifice of a dazzling, but deadly, age. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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A comprehensive investigation of the life of the Ottawa Indian chief. ... Read more

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60 year old book still unsurpassed.
the standard view of Pontiac sometimes gives the view that after the failure of the siege of Detroit he was finished and faded into alcoholic obscurity and then was assassinated outside a tavern(drunken Indian?) at Cahokia,Illinois.This book shows him still active and as double dealing as his enemies the British merchants backed by their little existing Royal government.It's obvious from this read that when he was murdered he was still a threat to British merchants(later American entrepreneurs)because he wanted a better deal for Indian interests.This event was a full scaled war with massacres of civilians on both sides,and one of the early recorded instances of biological warfare.The British made "peace offerings" of smallpox infected blankets and scarves.Also obvious in the book is the power of the British navy on the Great Lakes,they could resupply any post almost at whim,whereas the Indians have canoes and small barges.The British also more effectively use politics and "payoffs" in the form of gifts to isolate and make Pontiac appear a "very bad man".Technological superiority is often cited as the main reason for the British conquest of the Indian,but the political evolution of the English may have been an even bigger reason for it. Remember the british government's policy at this time is "laissez faire",which means the merchants are pretty much free to do as they want. Do you think for a second they would want Pontiac around?Finding someone to "do the job" for a blanket and a pint of ale would have been no problem on the American frontier at the time.In addition Pontiac is sympathetic and maybe even allied with the French.He might have even fared the same fee even today.There is some new material in this book that was not available to Francis Parkman and this is one of only 2 or 3 books written about Pontiac that are not children's books.It's hard due to a lack of primary sources about Pontiac to give a really accurate portrait,but this book really digs for it with great footnotes.The story of the assasination doesn't clear up who did it,but there alot of suspects,and I picked mine from the book.

Wonderful Piece
For a shorter paperback work, this was a most impressive piece. Not only was the author complete in his explanation of Pontiac's War, but also gave all points of view. Many times Pontiac's own words were translated to get the effect of the messages he was trying to relay. It was very detailed in explaining The Ottawa Chief's influence over many tribes, including the western tribes of Illinois. He almost singlehandedly destroyed the English western frontier of the Great Lakes, Unfortunately as readers know, logistics win wars, and his lack of supplies did him in. The book also touched on many roles key English officers and civilians played in the developing peace, and also what role the French continued to play even after their defeat in the French and Indian War. Pontiac's defeat was the beginning of the end of the Native Americans control of this land, as sad as it is. Enjoy this wonderful book. ... Read more