I'd like to restate that the book does have 38 pages of notes and bibiliography, and he does explicitly give the source for exact quotes. The level of citation isn't at an academic level, but this isn't an academic work. Do you expect countless footnotes in a popular history?
The Wars of America--By Robert Leckie
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If a historian writes something, thart will bring me to sleep in this few pagesmost of whom put most readers to sleep inside of twenty pages!
1 I´m tired, finished.
2 He choose a theme less interesting as the influence of the advantages of using papyrus vs paper.
3 His writing style would be a danger to the pharma industry because sleep helpers would be not longer needed.
WWII is well recorded.
I wouldn`t judge against someone who differs from the mainstream, as long as he gives the reasons and facts why his opinion differs, and did his work professionell, research and whatever to be done.
Maybe he is wrong, maybe he gives us another facet to ook at, maybe he is right.
Come they from mistakes or are they his different opinion or reasoning.
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For anyone still enjoying the "purple" prose, I offer up this anecdote:
The Dutch laughed aside all warning from Albany, and carried their derision to the length of leaving the settlement gates open with two snowmen as mock sentinels.
The raiders slipped past the snowmen at the northern gate. Schenectady slept on. The raiders peeled off, left and right, until, between the palisades and the rows of silent houses stood ranks of French and Indians. And then the night silence was split with the screeching of the war whoops, the doors of the houses were burst open, the tomahawks came plunging down -- and the butchery began.
"No pen can write, and no tongue express, the cruelties that were committed," wrote Peter Schuyler. "The women bigg with Childe rip'd up, and the Children alive throwne into the flames, and their head dashed against the Doors and windows."
That last quote comes from Francis Parkman, Count Frontenac and new France under Louis XIV (Boston: Little, Brown, 1888), p. 214.
Edit: On a lark, I'd originally tried literally purple prose. It's unreadable.
The Dutch laughed aside all warning from Albany, and carried their derision to the length of leaving the settlement gates open with two snowmen as mock sentinels.
The raiders slipped past the snowmen at the northern gate. Schenectady slept on. The raiders peeled off, left and right, until, between the palisades and the rows of silent houses stood ranks of French and Indians. And then the night silence was split with the screeching of the war whoops, the doors of the houses were burst open, the tomahawks came plunging down -- and the butchery began.
"No pen can write, and no tongue express, the cruelties that were committed," wrote Peter Schuyler. "The women bigg with Childe rip'd up, and the Children alive throwne into the flames, and their head dashed against the Doors and windows."
That last quote comes from Francis Parkman, Count Frontenac and new France under Louis XIV (Boston: Little, Brown, 1888), p. 214.
Edit: On a lark, I'd originally tried literally purple prose. It's unreadable.
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You really can start off a poor shepherd and rise to the top of colonial society:
Phips is one of the most remarkable figures in colonial history. Born one of 26 children by the same woman, he was reared in poverty at a rude settlement on the banks of the Kennebec, tending sheep until the age of 18. Then he took up carpentry. Next he came to Boston to marry a widow, better born, better-off and better along in years than himself. In Boston he learned to read and write and to aspire to the command of a king's ship and possession of "a fair brick house in the Green Lane of North Boston."
Phips achieved far more than both dreams combined. Like countless Americans to follow him, he went hunting for sunken treasure. After one fruitless expedition during which Phips, a tall and powerful man, quelled two mutinies, he persuaded the British Admiralty to subsidize a second quest. This time Phips found the wreck of a Spanish galleon in the West Indies and took from it treasure valued at £300,000, and he came home a rich man and a knight.
That's one difference between D&D treasure-hunting and historical (or fictional) treasure hunting. In D&D, an amazing haul like that would be "unbalancing", but you could earn bits and pieces of it off monsters who shouldn't necessarily have any treasure per se...
Phips is one of the most remarkable figures in colonial history. Born one of 26 children by the same woman, he was reared in poverty at a rude settlement on the banks of the Kennebec, tending sheep until the age of 18. Then he took up carpentry. Next he came to Boston to marry a widow, better born, better-off and better along in years than himself. In Boston he learned to read and write and to aspire to the command of a king's ship and possession of "a fair brick house in the Green Lane of North Boston."
Phips achieved far more than both dreams combined. Like countless Americans to follow him, he went hunting for sunken treasure. After one fruitless expedition during which Phips, a tall and powerful man, quelled two mutinies, he persuaded the British Admiralty to subsidize a second quest. This time Phips found the wreck of a Spanish galleon in the West Indies and took from it treasure valued at £300,000, and he came home a rich man and a knight.
That's one difference between D&D treasure-hunting and historical (or fictional) treasure hunting. In D&D, an amazing haul like that would be "unbalancing", but you could earn bits and pieces of it off monsters who shouldn't necessarily have any treasure per se...
