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35-page soft cover. Photos of the some of the exhibits of the museum with short blurbs about each ... Read more

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Chapters: South African National Museum of Military History, South African Air Force Museum, Magersfontein, South African Naval Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The South African National War Museum in Johannesburg was officially opened by Prime Minister Jan Smuts on 29 August 1947 to preserve the history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War. In 1975 the museum was renamed the South African National Museum of Military History and its function changed to include all conflicts that South Africa has been involved in. The Anglo-Boer War MemorialOn the grounds of the museum is a large memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. On November 30, 1910 Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn laid a commemorative stone at the memorial. Originally called the Rand Regiments Memorial and dedicated to British soldiers that lost their lived during the Second Boer War, it was rededicated on October 10, 1999 to all people who died during the Second Boer War and renamed the Boer War Memorial. The museum is divided into a number of areas A german aircraft hall with main attractionsMesserschmitt Bf 109Messerschmitt Me 262The GE Brink Hall withImperial aircraft, including a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5Anglo Boer War exhibitsDan Pienaar Gun ParkVarious guns from around the worldFB Adler HallArtillery piecesAnglo-Zulu War exhibitsSmall armsA Naval areaArmoured vehiclesFrom the small Carro Veloce CV-35 to the large Churchill tankHeavy Artillery featuringG5 howitzer and G6 howitzerAircraft displays ...http://booksllc.net/?id=17755467 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The Royal Military College of Canada Museum, established in 1962, is located in the Martello Tower of Fort Frederick, Pnt Frederick Dr, on the campus of the Royal Military College of Canada at the CFB Kingston, in Kingston, Ontario. The Royal Military College of Canada Museum has regular hours from the last weekend in June until Labour Day. The museum and historic site can also be visited via the Virtual Museum @ The museum is found at Fort Frederick (Kingston) a 1790 fortification consisting mostly of earthworks (engineering) with a North wall of stone masonry. It is on the Registry of Historic Places of Canada. It contains one of the four Martello Towers, built by Corps of Royal Engineers between 1846 and 1848 to augment the Kingston defences. The Martello Tower houses the RMC museum. It was named in honour of Frederick, Prince of Wales. Royal Military College of Canada Museum in Martello Tower Martello Tower diagramFort Frederick is operated as the museum of the Royal Military College of Canada. The RMCC museum's mandate is to collect, conserve, research and display artefacts and records relating to the history of the RMCC, achievements of its graduates and the earlier naval history of its site, Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard which once occupied Point Frederick, the peninsula upon where the College stands. . The RMCC Museum exhibits items regards the history of the Royal Military College of Canada, the site it is located on and the life of the cadets. The museum also holds a small collection of material related to the Point Frederick Dockyard and the Royal Navy. Between 1922 and 1946, the RMC collections consisted merely of arms and military artefacts collections raised, built and maintained by individuals or very small groups of veteran... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24497230 ... Read more

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Chapters: Peace Candle, Stephen Foster Memorial, Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial, Washington Memorial Chapel, Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial, Wyoming Monument, Avenue of Flags, National Memorial Arch. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Peace Candle is a tower-like structure erected every Christmas season in Easton, Pennsylvania. The approximately 106-foot (32 m) tall structure, which resembles a giant candle, is assembled each year over the Soldiers' ... Read more

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Title: Honoring army women.(military museums for army women )
Author: Antony Joseph
Publication: Soldiers Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 60Issue: 8Page: 28(4)

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Chapters: Geok Tepe, Muscovite-lithuanian Wars, Volunteer Army, Museum of Military Medicine, Bagration Flèches, Military History of the Russian Federation, West Russian Volunteer Army, Exercise Zapad, Budenovka, Bashlyk, Nikolayevsk Incident, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Armed Forces of South Russia, Toy Army of Peter I, Second Fatherland War, Voyi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The MuscoviteLithuanian Wars (also known as Russo-Lithuanian Wars, or just either Muscovite Wars or Lithuanian Wars) were a series of wars between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, allied with the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After several defeats at the hands of Ivan III and Vasily III, the Lithuanians were increasingly reliant on Polish aid, which eventually became an important factor in the creation of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. In the first series of wars in the 15th century the Lithuanians gained control of a lot of Rus' territories, from Kiev to Mozhaisk, but over the course of the series of wars, particularly in the 16th century, the Russians were able to expand their domain westwards, taking control of much of the lands that were once part of Kievan Rus. Expansion of the Lithuanian state in the 1315th centuriesRussia and Lithuania had been involved in a series of conflicts since the reign of Gediminas, who defeated a coalition of Ruthenian princes in the Battle on the Irpen' River and seized Kiev, the former capital of Kievan Rus'. By the mid-14th century, an expanding Lithuania had absorbed Chernigov and Severia. Algirdas, the successor of Gediminas, forged an alliance with the Grand Duchy of Tver and undertook three expeditions against Moscow, attempting to take advantage of the youth of the Grand Prince of Moscow, Dmitry Ivanovich, w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7992161 ... Read more

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Chapters: Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, Fort Conde, Battleship Memorial Park, United States Army Aviation Museum, Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fort Morgan (Alabama) -After the departure of the Spanish from Mobile in April 1813, the Americans built an earth and wood redoubt on Mobile Point, ultimately naming it Fort Bowyer after Col. John Bowyer, who completed the construction before leaving in 1814. In September 1814 the fort withstood a British naval and land attack, known as the First Battle of Fort Bowyer. The British returned in February 1815 after their defeat at the Battle of New Orleans and again launched an attack that became known as the Second Battle of Fort Bowyer. This time they were successful, with its American garrison surrendering the fort. Before the British could continue their attack towards Mobile they received word that the Treaty of Ghent, ending the war, had been signed on Christmas Eve, 1814. When word of the treaty's ratification arrived shortly thereafter, the British withdrew. The site was a logical one for a more substantial fort that could defend itself from landward and protect the entrance to the bay, leading to Fort Morgan replacing Fort Bowyer. After the War of 1812, the U.S. embarked on a program to strengthen its seacoast defenses. As part of this program, in 1818 the U.S. contracted with Benjamin Hopkins of Vermont to build a large masonry fort on Mobile Point after a design by Simon Bernard, who had been a military engineer for Napoleon. However, Hopkins died a year later in a yellow fever epidemic, having accomplished little. The next contractor, Samuel Hawkins of New York, died in 1821, before accomplishing anything on the project...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1936401 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt:View of El Morro from across San Juan Bay.Fort San Felipe del Morro or El Castillo San Felipe del Morro in Spanish is a sixteenth-century citadel which lies on the northwestern-most point of the islet of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Named in honor of King Philip II of Spain, the fort, also referred to as "El Morro" or "promontory", was designed to guard the entrance to San Juan bay, and defend the city of San Juan from seaborne enemies. In 1983, the fort was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations and is part of San Juan National Historic Site. Over two million visitors a year explore the windswept ramparts and passageways making the fort one of Puerto Rico's main visitor attractions. Facing "El Morro", on the opposite side of the bay, a smaller fort known as "El Cañuelo" complemented the fort's defense of the entrance to the bay. El Morro entrance view Aerial view of El Morro from the north.The construction of the Fort San Felipe del Morro began in 1539 when King Charles V of Spain authorized its construction, including the surrounding walls. The purpose was to defend the port of San Juan.It was also constructed to control the entry to the harbor. Construction started the same year with a tiny proto-fortress that was "completed" in 1589. This small section comprises perhaps 10% of the structure people see today. In 1587, engineers Juan de Tejada and Juan Bautista Antonelli designed the actual appearance of the castle following well established Spanish military fortification design principles. Similar Spanish fortifications of the 1600s-1700s can be seen in Cuba, St. Augustine, Florida, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Veracruz and Acapulco, Mexico, Portobello and Panama City, Panamá,and many other Latin American lo... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=707758 ... Read more

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Fully illustrated in full colour, the very best and most interesting artifacts of the museums collection of old uniforms, weaponry, military awards, orders, medals, presentation weapons, and honorary regimental colours - of times of Czarist Russia and of the Soviet period.This book also offers a narative. ... Read more

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Chapters: Tower of London, Imperial War Museum, Hms Belfast, Old Royal Naval College, National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Chelsea, Royal Air Force Museum London, Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, Firepower - the Royal Artillery Museum, Royal Armouries, the Guards Museum, Honourable Artillery Company Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Imperial War Museum is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. The museum was founded during the First World War in 1917 and intended as a record of the war effort and sacrifice of Britain and her Empire. Today the museum gives its mission as 'to enable people to have an informed understanding of modern war and its impact on individuals and society'. Originally housed in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, the museum opened to the public in 1920. In 1924 the museum moved to space in the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and finally in 1936 the museum acquired a permanent home which was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark. The outbreak of the Second World War saw the museum expand both its collections and its terms of reference, but the post-war period saw the museum enter a period of decline. The 1960s saw the museum redevelop its Southwark building, now referred to as Imperial War Museum London, and which serves as the organisation's corporate headquarters. During the 1970s the museum began to expand onto other sites. The first, in 1976, was a historic airfield in Cambridgeshire now referred to as Imperial War Museum Duxford. In 1978 the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast became a branch of the museum, having previously been preserved for the nation by a private trust. In 1984 the Cabinet War Rooms, an under...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=187432 ... Read more

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Chapters: National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, Istanbul Military Museum, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Temple (Cleveland, Ohio), Museum of 4 July, Long Beach Museum of Art, Railway Museum, Coos Art Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. Each spring, following the tabulation of the final votes, the announcement of new inductees is usually made during Kentucky Derby Week in early May. The Hall of Fame's nominating committee selects eight to ten candidates from among the four Contemporary categories to be presented to the voters. Changes in voting procedures that commence with the 2010 candidates will allow the voters to choose multiple candidates from a single Contemporary category, instead of a single candidate from each of the four Contemporary categories. Presidents of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and term of service: The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame has named only five people in the history of American Thoroughbred horse racing as "Exemplars of Racing." They are: To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a horse must have been retired for a minimum of five full calendar years. (Year of induction) To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a jockey must be licensed for 20 years or have been retired for at least five years. (Year of induction) To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a trainer must be licensed and actively involved with Thoroughbreds for at least 25 years or have been retired for a minimum of five years. (Year of induction) ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=429691 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fort Mackinac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Before 1763, the French had controlled the Straits of Mackinac by the similarly named Fort Michilimackinac on the mainland on the south shore of the passage. After the 1763 Treaty of Paris, the British occupied the French fort but deemed the wooden structure too difficult to defend. During 1780-1781, Patrick Sinclair, the lieutenant governor of Michilimackinac constructed a new limestone fort on the limestone bluffs of Mackinac Island. The British held the outpost throughout the war. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the British did not relinquish the fort to the United States until 1796. Location of Fort Mackinac on the islandIn June, 1812, at the start of the War of 1812, the British General Isaac Brock sent a canoe party 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to confirm that a state of war existed. This party returned with an order to attack Fort Mackinac, then known as "Fort Michilimackinac." At that time, Fort Mackinac was manned by a small U.S. garrison of approximately 60 men under the command of Lieutenant Porter Hanks. While a diligent officer, Hanks had received no communication from his superiors for months. On the morning of July 17, 1812, the fort was attacked by a combined British and Native American force of seventy war canoes and ten bateaux under the command of British Captain Charles Roberts. Coming from Fort St. Joseph to the north, Captain Roberts landed on the north end of the island, 2 miles (3.2 km) away from the fort. The British quietly removed the village inhabitants from their homes and trained two cannons at the fort. Hanks, taken by surprise, realized his garrison was badly outnumbered. The officers and men under Roberts numbered about 200, supported by a few hundred Native Americans... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=649532 ... Read more

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Chapters: Fort Queenscliff, Australian War Memorial, Wagga Wagga Heritage Centre, Army Museum of Western Australia, Darwin Military Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. The Fort, which underwent major redevelopment in the late 1870s and 1880s, became the headquarters for an extensive chain of forts around Port Phillip Heads. Its garrison included volunteer artillery, engineers, infantry and naval militia, and it was manned as a coastal defence installation continuously from 1883 to 1946. The other fortifications and armaments around the Heads were completed by 1891, and together made Port Phillip one of the most heavily defended harbours in the British Empire. The first Allied shots of World War I were fired when a gun at Fort Nepean fired across the bow of the German freighter Pfalz, as she was attempting to escape to sea. The orders to fire came from Fort Queenscliff. The same gun, with a different barrel, also fired the first Allied shot of World War II. By 1946 coastal artillery was outmoded, and the Fort became home of the Army Command and Staff College. After the three Service Staff Colleges were combined into the Australian Defence College in Canberra, it became the base for Army's Soldier Career Management Agency in 2001. Fort Queenscliff is located in the Borough of Queenscliffe, some 106 km from Melbourne, on the western side of the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. It occupies an area of 6.7 hectares on high ground known as Shortland's Bluff and overlooks the shipping lanes leading to Melbourne and Geelong. The Fort is a superb example of the defences that existed around the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10172934 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kremlin Armoury, Museum of Military Medicine, Central Armed Forces Museum, Poklonnaya Hill, Central Air Force Museum, Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, Kubinka Tank Museum, Kremlin Arsenal, Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, Kulikovo Field, Army Medical Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kremlin Armoury - Coordinates) is one of the oldest museums of Moscow, established in 1808 and located in the Moscow Kremlin (map). The Kremlin Armoury originated as the royal arsenal in 1508. Until the transfer of the court to St Petersburg, the Armoury was in charge of producing, purchasing and storing weapons, jewellery and various household articles of the tsars. The finest Muscovite gunsmiths (the Vyatkin brothers), jewellers (Gavrila Ovdokimov), and painters (Simon Ushakov) used to work there. In 1640 and 1683, they opened the iconography and pictorial studios, where the lessons on painting and handicrafts could be given. In 1700, the Armoury was enriched with the treasures of the Golden and Silver chambers of the Russian tsars. In 1711, Peter the Great had the majority of masters transferred to his new capital, St.Petersburg. 15 years later, the Armoury was merged with the Fiscal Yard (the oldest depository of the royal treasures), Stables Treasury (in charge of storing harnesses and carriages) and the Master Chamber (in charge of sewing clothes and bedclothes for the tsars). After that, the Armoury was renamed into the Arms and Master Chamber. Alexander I of Russia nominated the Armoury as the first public museum in Moscow in 1806, but the collections were not opened to the public until 7 years later. The current Armoury building was erected in 1844-1851 by the imperial architect Konstantin Ton. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=949830 ... Read more