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Hill 488
Author | : Ray Hildreth,Charles W. Sasser |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781451604306 |
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For some, Hill 488 was just another landmark in the jungles of Vietnam. For the eighteen men of Charlie Company, it was a last stand—this is the stirring combat memoir written by Ray Hildreth, one of the unit's survivors. On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of the U.S. military, winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, thirteen Silver Stars, and eighteen Purple Hearts—some of them posthumously. During the early evening of June 15, a battalion of hardened North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong—outnumbering the Americans 25-to-1—threw everything they had at the sixteen Marines and two Navy corpsmen for the rest of that terror-filled night. Every man who held the hill was either killed or wounded defending the ground with unbelievable courage and unflagging determination—even as reinforcements were on the way. All they had to do was make it until dawn...
List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal
Author | : Bengal (India). Public Works Department |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : UCBK:C042170302 |
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Harriman vs Hill
Author | : Larry Haeg |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781452939902 |
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In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally—five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West. Two titans of American railroads set their sights on it: James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern and largest individual shareholder of the Northern Pacific, and Edward Harriman, head of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific. The subsequent contest was unprecedented in the history of American enterprise, pitting not only Hill against Harriman but also Big Oil against Big Steel and J. P. Morgan against the Rockefellers, with a supporting cast of enough wealthy investors to fill the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. The story, told here in full for the first time, transports us to the New York Stock Exchange during the unfolding of the earliest modern-day stock market panic. Harriman vs. Hill re-creates the drama of four tumultuous days in May 1901, when the common stock of the Northern Pacific rocketed from one hundred ten dollars a share to one thousand in a mere seventeen hours of trading—the result of an inadvertent “corner” caused by the opposing forces. Panic followed and then, in short order, a calamity for the “shorts,” a compromise, the near-collapse of Wall Street brokerages and banks, the most precipitous decline ever in American stock values, and the fastest recovery. Larry Haeg brings to life the ensuing stalemate and truce, which led to the forming of a holding company, briefly the biggest railroad combine in American history, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the deal, launching the reputation of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as the “great dissenter” and President Theodore Roosevelt as the “trust buster.” The forces of competition and combination, unfettered growth, government regulation, and corporate ambition—all the elements of American business at its best and worst—come into play in the account of this epic battle, whose effects echo through our economy to this day.
Chronology 1941 1945
Author | : Mary H. Williams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : IND:30000050600695 |
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Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of South Carolina
Author | : South Carolina. Supreme Court,J. S. G. Richardson,Robert Wallace Shand,Cyprian Melanchthon Efird,William Hay Townsend,Duncan C. Ray,William Munro Shand |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : UOM:35112103368553 |
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Military History of Ulysses S Grant
Author | : Adam Badeau |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : YALE:39002013169868 |
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Reports of Cases Adjudged and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature and Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors of the State of New York
Author | : New York (State). Supreme Court,Edwin Burritt Smith,Ernest Hitchcock |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : IND:30000107747119 |
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The Principles of the Law of Evidence
Author | : William Mawdesley Best |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Cross-examination |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433008576799 |
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