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Subtitle erroneously included by publisher. ; Includes index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

on t.-p. of the English edition, London, 1874: Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh review'. ; The military life of General Grant.- A memoir of General Lee.- Admirals Farragut and Porter and the navy of the Union.- A northern raider in the civil war.- De Fezenszc's recollections of the grand army.- Henry von Brandt, a German soldier of the first empire.- Cornwallis and the Indian services.- a Carolina loyalist in the revolutionary war- Sir William Gordon of Gordon's battery.- Chinese Gordon and the Taipig rebellion. ; Mode of access: Internet.

on t.-p. of the English edition, London, 1874: Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh review'. ; The military life of General Grant.- A memoir of General Lee.- Admirals Farragut and Porter and the navy of the Union.- A northern raider in the civil war.- De Fezenszc's recollections of the grand army.- Henry von Brandt, a German soldier of the first empire.- Cornwallis and the Indian services.- a Carolina loyalist in the revolutionary war- Sir William Gordon of Gordon's battery.- Chinese Gordon and the Taipig rebellion. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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"Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh review.'" ; De Fezensac's recollections of the grand army.--Henry von Brandt, a German soldier of the first empire.--Cornwallis and the Indian services.--A Carolina loyalist in the revolutionary war.--Sir William Gordon of Gordon's battery.--Chinese Gordon and the Taiping rebellion.--The military life of General Grant.--Admirals Farragut and Porter and the navy of the union.--A northern raider in the civil war.--A memoir of General Lee. ; Mode of access: Internet.

For more than a half century Douglas MacArthur was a servant of the United States. He is best remembered as a general and a soldier, especially for his leadership during World War II and the Korean War. MacArthur was also the Superintendent of West Point, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, Generalissimo ( Commander) of the Armed Forces and Military Advisor (Minister of Defense) to the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and the Supreme Commander Allied Powers and the Military Governor of occupied Japan. In these positions he functioned not as a soldier, but as a senior public administrator. The dissertation will begin by establishing the military as a valid and unique field of Public Administration. Contributions of military adminstration to the discipline of Public Administration will then be examined. The dissertation will examine MacArthur's professional and academic training for his previously listed administrative posts. A determination and analysis of MacArthur's theoretical and applied approaches to Public Administration and General Management Theories will be made. The analysis of MacArthur's performance in his administrative positions will be made against a backdrop of contemporary Public Administration Theory. ; Ph. D.

English version of: Genl. Louis Botha. Pretoria : Van Schaik, 1928. ; The original document was digitized with financial support from Media24. ; by F.V. Engelenburg ; with an antroduction by J.C. Smuts. ; http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1728278

Biography is booming. William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Steve Jobs and Billy Conolly, for example, have all been the subject of recent biographies that have sold and earned millions. General biographies, such as The Hare with Amber Eyes have sold over 400,000 copies, as have Celebrity biographies and autobiographies. While political biographies may not reach these dizzy heights, they remain popular, as is evidenced by John Campbell on Margaret Thatcher, Robert Caro on Lyndon Johnson, Katherine Frank's Indira: The life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, Roy Jenkins on Churchill, Ben Pimlot on Harold Wilson and the Queen, and by the diaries of Harold Macmillan, Richard Crossman, Tony Benn and Chris Mullin (amongst others). Artists of diverse sorts, philosophers, historians and even economists have all attracted a steady stream of admirable biographies, from Bagehot and Beveridge to Warhol and Wittgenstein. At first blush, the contrast with legal biography (other than in the United States) could not be more striking. Under this optic, a few pearls glitter in the mud, such as Nichola Lacey on HLA Hart and R. Gwynedd Parry on David Hughes Parry (UK); Charles Herbert Curry on Sir Francis Forbes, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Leonie Star on Julius Stone (Australia); and Philip Girard on Bora Laskin and David Ricardo Williams on Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff (Canada). However, many have been written by unabashed admirers, based on inadequate or undisclosed sources, and published by small obscure presses where they rapidly, and perhaps deservedly, fell out of print. According to this view, the history of legal biography is largely one of failure. It is principally a manifestation of the conservative tradition of legal history and legal scholarship. In this paper, I problematize the notion that the history of legal biography is largely a story of failure and conservatism. Some of the key methodological and theoretical perspectives underlying legal and other forms of biography are described and analysed. I point to long-standing and recent work that embodies visions of biography that suggest ways of expanding the repertoire of legal biography and socio-legal scholarship, and which provide important insights into "what does legal biography add?" My comments derive, in part, from the oral history of English legal education and scholarship that I commenced in 1986, and whose interviewees include LCB (Jim) Gower, HLA Hart, Tony Honore, Peter Stein and William Twining.

The supervision of water systems in many countries is centralised and taken over from local water management collectives of 'water workers' by governmental or other water management institutions. Communities are literally and figuratively cut-off from 'their' water systems, due to the increase of urbanisation and industrialisation. On account of water management, humankind changed from communities of actively engaged water workers into passive users. In so doing, crucial knowledge about how communities created, maintained, and expanded 'living water systems', such as rice terraces, low-pasture systems, polders, floating-gardens, brooks-mill, and tidal systems, is rapidly diminishing. Revealing stories (oral accounts) of water workers generate insights and understanding of forgotten aspects of the landscape. They hold information on how to engage with water in a more holistic way, strategies that might help in facing today's challenges. The world in general, but planners, spatial designers, and water managers working with water, in particular, have so far taken little account of these stories. Without documenting stories that are about the dynamic interaction between people and landscape, valuable knowledge has disappeared and continues to do so. To help to overcome this knowledge gap, to learn from the past, the Visual Water Biography (VWB) is developed. The novel method is based on the Delft layer approach in which the spatial relationship of a design and its topography is studied, and developed by many authors from the faculty of landscape architecture at TU Delft in combination with the landscape biography approach. The Visual Water Biography visualises and maps: 1) knowledge and 2) engagement of water workers by focusing on 3) circular and 4) cyclical processes that are descended in the landscape. The method developed for spatial planners, researchers, and designers explicitly allows for multi-disciplinary engagement with water workers, water professionals, people from other disciplines such as historians and ecologists, and the general public. The added value of the VWB method is shown by the case of the Dutch Sprengen and Brooks system, a water system that is well documented in terms of landscape biography but less understood as a living water system.

Franz Sigel was born November 18, 1824 at Sinsheim in the grand duchy of Baden Germany. Like many of the young German revolutionaries he was educated at the Karlsruhe Military Academy and after graduating received a commission in the Regular Army. He participated in the German Revolution and eventually acted as minister of War for the revolutionary forces which were overthrown by the Prussians. He fled to Switzerland then to England and finally to New York City in 1852. Before the Civil War he taught school in the German American Institute in New York and in 1857 moved to St. Louis. In 1861 he was made director of the St. Louis school district and then joined the Union forces. He played a major role in unifying the German population and "I fights mit Sigel" became a passport among the Germans in the ranks. He performed well at Camp Jackson, Carthage and at Wilson's Creek, Missouri. At Pea Ridge he was mainly responsible for the Union victory. His career then took a turn for the worse as he was transferred to the East in 1862 and came under the direct scrutiny of General Halleck. He participated in the Battles of Cedar Mountain and Second Manassas. Soon after he was transferred to the District of Lehigh, Pennsylvania and remained there until 1864. After lobbying for a new command Sigel was appointed to command the Department of West Virginia where he suffered his greatest loss at the Battle of New Market. Soon after he was relieved from command. After his resignation in May 1865 he engaged in literary and political pursuits. He travelled often and gave lectures and speeches in favor of the Republican Party. He held several political appointments throughout his post war career and continued to be a major force in rallying German support for the Republicans. He died at his home in the Bronx on August 22, 1902. ; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-03, Section: A, page: 0779. ; Major Professor: James P. Jones. ; Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.

Iva Ramsdell, the Clarkson University Archivist made a presentation on General Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825) at the Potsdam Public Museum during the bicentennial year. Her speech is focused on General Matthew Clarkson's military career from 1775 to early 1800's.

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Muhammad ʿAbd al-Malik al-Mutawakkil (1942-2014) ; professor of political science at Sanaa University ; deputy secretary-general of the Union of Popular Forces ; and pioneer of the human rights movement in South Arabia ; was one of the few home de lettres in Yemen whose intellectual clout extended far into the Arab world. As an outstanding figure of political and scholarly life in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula ; his vita exemplifies the ups and downs of Yemeni politics in the post-imamic ; republican era up to the fall of ʿAli ʿAbdallah Salih ; just as his writings are an enlightening guide to the understanding of the latter and the Yemeni social fabric as a whole. This article seeks to provide a political biography of a man whose calm and sensible voice many will find missing in these times of turmoil.

Biography of the Argentine general Juan Apóstol Martínez, detailing his military career and role in the Argentine civil war and wars of independence. Possibly published Montevideo 1840, signed 'Un verdadero amigo'

This article is a short collective biography of six so-called 'Turkestan Generals', all of whom played a prominent role in the Russian conquest and administration of Central Asia. These campaigns are usually seen as marginal to the military history of the Russian empire in the nineteenth century, but they were central to the reputations of three of the most prominent generals of the period, who became important public figures – Cherniaev, Skobelev, and Kuropatkin. The article shows that this was not accidental, but the product of a carefully constructed narrative in Russian military historiography.