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New Jersey Hessians

Truth and Lore in the American Revolution

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

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New Jersey Hessians

Truth and Lore in the American Revolution

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still circulate in New Jersey, from the headless Hessian of the Morristown Swamp to the mysterious Ramapo Mountain people. Join author Pete Lubrecht as he navigates the myth of Hessian troops in New Jersey to separate fiction from fact.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625857284

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9781625857286

Germans in New Jersey

A History

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

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Germans in New Jersey

A History

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

German immigrants and their descendants are integral to New Jersey's history. When the state was young, they founded villages that are now well-established communities, such as Long Valley. Many German immigrants were lured by the freedom and opportunity in the Garden State, especially in the nineteenth century, as they escaped oppression and revolution. German heroes have played a patriotic part in the state's growth and include scholars, artists, war heroes and industrialists, such as John Roebling, the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Thomas Nast, the father of the American cartoon. Despite these contributions, life in America was not always easy; they faced discrimination, especially during the world wars. But in the postwar era, refugees and German Americans alike--through their Deutsche clubs, festivals, societies and language schools--are a huge part of New Jersey's rich cultural tapestry.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625845103

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9781625845108

New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

The Hussars of the Union Army

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

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New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

The Hussars of the Union Army

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

The New Jersey Butterflies, officially the Third New Jersey Cavalry, was formed for the last year of the Civil War. They were also known as the First American Hussars; their creation by an alcoholic ex-officer of the Union Army was supposed to entice men to join a galloping, dashing, romantic cavalry unit. Clothed in orange gilt trimmed hats and capes, they were supposed to charge armed only with a saber, in most traditional European Cavalry fashion, into battle and subdue an enemy armed with rifles. This book is not about battlefield configurations, but rather about the men themselves. Individual stories from original accounts will examine how this glorious, historically victorious, difficult and often tragic year affected their return to the daily world of doctors, teachers, lawyers, clerks and workmen.

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1614232326

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New Jersey Hessians

Truth and Lore in the American Revolution

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

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Truth and Lore in the American Revolution

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Germans in New Jersey

A History

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

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A History

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Life Under the Sun

By: Peter A. Ensminger

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Life Under the Sun

By: Peter A. Ensminger

Which fungus is as sensitive to light as the human eye? What are the myths and facts about the ozone hole, tanning, skin cancer, and sunscreens? What is the effect of light on butterfly copulation? This entertaining collection of essays explores how various organisms -- including archaebacteria, slime molds, fungi, plants, insects, and humans -- sense and respond to sunlight. The essays in Peter A. Ensminger's book cover vision, photosynthesis, and phototropism, as well as such unusual topics as the reason why light causes beer to develop a "skunky" odor. He introducec us to the kinds of eyes that have evolved in different animals, including those in a species of shrimp that is ostensibly eyeless; gives us a better appreciation of color vision; explains how plowing fields at night may be used to control weeds; and tells about variegate porphyria, a metabolic disease that makes people very sensitive to sunlight and may have afflicted King George III of England. These engaging essays present a complicated yet fascinating subject in an accessible way. The book will be treasured by anyone interested in the wonders of biology.

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Yale University Press

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0300133529

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9780300133523

Liebe Kück!

A German Soldier’S Story from the Great War

By: Peter Lubrecht Sr.

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Liebe Kück!

A German Soldier’S Story from the Great War

By: Peter Lubrecht Sr.

One hundred years ago, the world suffered a brutal and destructive conflict. The Great War, World War I, or the War to End All Wars, by whatever name, cost the lives and the fortunes of millions of people. The modern world, now concerned with its own problems and conflicts, has pushed the memory of it deep into the recesses of collective memory. The veterans and the war dead are honored and memorialized annually; however, the ongoing destructive influence of this time on the personal lives, fates, and fortunes of individuals and families is forgotten. Liebe Kck! A German Soldiers Story from the Great War is based on the letters Vice Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant) Alwin Ficke of the Seventy-Fourth Reserve German Infantry, stationed on the Western Front of the War, wrote home to his wife and family from August 1914 until his death in France in February 1915. Sergeant Fickes viewpoint was contrary to the popularized media reports of German military actions in Belgium and the Champagne Valley. This ugly war is best understood not through popularized media reports but as it is seen though the personal wars of soldiers and their families. His is the story of the journey taken from home to battle representing the struggles and turmoil in the lives of legions of others.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503554694

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9781503554696

The Statesman and the Socialite: Carl Schurz and Fanny Chapman

Secret Love, Letters, and Life in the Gilded Age

By: Peter Lubrecht

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The Statesman and the Socialite: Carl Schurz and Fanny Chapman

Secret Love, Letters, and Life in the Gilded Age

By: Peter Lubrecht

Carl Schurz was a larger-than-life public figure whose exploits, real and concocted appeared in newspapers nationwide during the nineteenth century. His letters to Fanny Chapman, his secret love, leave a picture of an age of turmoil, corruption, social graces, and artistic explosion. It took a renaissance man like Carl Schurz to travel among the greats in the literary, artistic and political arenas with grace and judgement. The tragedy of his life, if there was one, is that he is nearly forgotten in the modern world in the face of revisionist history. He was a fighter for human rights including all races and creeds and a pioneer muckraker in a corrupt city of a “Gilded Age”. Lost are his educational contributions, his unpopular and prophetic political stance for Civil Service reform and his fight against a trend toward national imperialism.

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1669863360

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15th Wear of Materials

By: Peter J. Blau,Steven L. Shaffer

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15th Wear of Materials

By: Peter J. Blau,Steven L. Shaffer

These proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Wear of Materials focus on the friction and wear of materials in various applications under different environments from the nanometer scale to the meter scale. The conference provides a unique international forum for researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to exchange latest results. Coverage includes: . Wear assessment and monitoring . Wear modeling, mechanisms, mapping and prediction . Wear-corrosion testing and control . Surface engineering for wear and wear-corrosion control . Development of new wear test methods and wear test methodologies . Wear of materials for biomedical applications . Wear of non-equilibrium materials: from atomic dimensions to the micro-scale . Wear of hard and superhard materials . Wear of materials in the earthmoving, minerals processing and mining industries

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826

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Elsevier

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0080447368

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9780080447360

Geography

Realms, Regions, and Concepts

By: Harm J. de Blij,Peter O. Muller

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Geography

Realms, Regions, and Concepts

By: Harm J. de Blij,Peter O. Muller

A penetrating look at the geographical framework of the contemporary world using the geographic perspective and geography's spatial terminology to investigate the globe's great geographic regions. Features complete, balanced and in-depth coverage of human culture, historical, physical and economic geography along with the very latest developments and implications. As in previous editions, this one contains outstanding illustrative materials including over 200 detailed maps.

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Wiley

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0471580899

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9780471580898

New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

The Hussars of the Union Army

By: Peter T. Lubrecht

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New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

The Hussars of the Union Army

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Book's by Peter Lubrecht

New Jersey Hessians

New Jersey Hessians

Germans in New Jersey

Germans in New Jersey

New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

New Jersey Hessians

New Jersey Hessians

Germans in New Jersey

Germans in New Jersey

Life Under the Sun

Life Under the Sun

Liebe Kück!

Liebe Kück!

The Statesman and the Socialite: Carl Schurz and Fanny Chapman

The Statesman and the Socialite: Carl Schurz and Fanny Chapman

15th Wear of Materials

15th Wear of Materials

Geography

Geography

New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

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