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  • Wyatt’s Rebellion
    Thomas T. Wiatt
    Wyatt’s Rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising in England in 1554. Led by Sir Thomas Wyatt, it arose from widespread concern over Queen Mary I’s determination to marry a foreigner, Philip II of Spain, and to restore England to the Catholic Church under papal authority. The rebellion, and its harsh aftermath, would have lasting consequences for the Wyatt family for generations t...
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  • The Hook
    Thomas T. Wiatt
    The Battle of the Hook, a lesser-known but pivotal engagement closely tied to the Siege of Yorktown, took place in Gloucester County, Virginia. Far more than a simple clash of armies, it was a dramatic confrontation between two formidable adversaries. On one side stood British Banastre Tarleton, opposing him was the French Duke of Lauzun. This was a face-to face encounter on th...
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  • The Stonewall
    Thomas T. Wiatt
    She was considered the greatest warship of its day. The Stonewell’s problem was finding a war to go to oreven a navy that wanted her. This story is not just of a ship, but of diplomats and emperors, captains and admirals, sailors and spies. ...
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  • Spanish Virginia
    Thomas T. Wiatt
    In 1570, a group of Spanish missionaries established a settlement in eastern Virginia, 36 years before the English founded the first permanent English colony at Jamestown. They called it The St. Mary’s Mission. The Native Americans called it Ajacan. The next year the entire Spanish mission was massacred by the Native Americans, except for one young boy who lived to tell the st...
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    17,95 €

  • Siah Carter
    Thomas T. Wiatt
    Siah Carter was born a slave on a Virginia Plantation on the banks of the James River. In 1862, he stole a small boat and rowed his way to freedom. Siah made it all the way to the US Naval ironclad the Monitor and was inducted into the US Navy. He was one of the first runaway slaves to join the US Military during the Civil War. ...
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  • The Unsinkable Mary Patten
    Thomas T. Wiatt
    This is the true story of a pregnant teenager who assumed command of an American merchant sailing ship in 1856. She faced off a mutiny, braved gale-force winds and icebergs, and then navigated the ship to port. Her name was Mary Patten. ...
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    18,76 €

  • Alleged Pirate
    Thomas T. Wiatt / Thomas TWiatt
    Captain John Sinclair was a privateer and naval hero of the American Revolutionary War. In peace time he returned to his career as a merchant seaman, farmer and family man. In 1795 he found himself in the courthouse in Williamsburg, Virginia being tried for piracy. ...
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  • Gringos
    Thomas T. Wiatt / Thomas TWiatt
    This book serves only as a sampler of all the U.S. American individuals throughout history that have crossed the border for reasons of their own. Some of these travelers came for adventure, others to escape being arrested for crimes committed in the United States. Lots came for employment opportunities that they did not have in the U.S. and some came to escape slavery. Some cam...
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    18,71 €

  • Lawyer Walker
    Thomas T. Wiatt / Thomas TWiatt
    Thomas Calhoun Walker was many things including slave, teacher, lawyer, government official, humanitarian, civil rights leader and adviser to presidents. ...
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    18,13 €

  • Captain Sally
    Thomas T. Wiatt
    Sally Tompkins was a very wealthy young woman who was a nurse that owned and ran her own private hospital in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War. The hospital had the highest survival rate of any hospital north or south. This statistic was even more remarkable considering that the worst cases were sent to her. She was also commissioned as Captain in the Confederate...
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    11,70 €

  • Rev. William E. Wiatt
    Thomas T. Wiatt / Thomas TWiatt
    The Rev. William E. Wiatt was known as one of the most laborious chaplains in the Confederate Army and was one of the very few Civil War army chaplains who stayed with the same regiment throughout the War. His was a very local in-the-ranks sort of chaplaincy. He carried the rifles of weak or sick soldiers, and served as nurse, teacher, librarian, mentor and father figure to men...
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    17,72 €