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Men of marque; a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812

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Author
Cranwell, John Philips,
Date of Publication
1940
Call Number
973.52 C891
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[by] John Philips Cranwell [and] William Bowers Crane.
Author
Cranwell, John Philips,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Date of Publication
1940
Physical Description
xiv, 15-427 p. plates, ports., fold. map, facsims. 25 cm.
Notes
"First edition."
LCHS copy "number 145 of a special limited and numbered edition which has been autographed by the authors."
Bibliography: p. 415-418.
Summary
A letter of marque and reprisal was a government license that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer. The author states that the activities of the Baltimore privateers "were so many and so varied that, taken as a whole, they represent a cross section of all privateering at the time."
Subjects
Privateering.
Shipping - Maryland - Baltimore.
United States - History - War of 1812 - Naval operations.
Baltimore (Md.) - History - War of 1812.
Additional Author
Crane, William Bowers,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.52 C891
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John Fulton Reynolds

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Author
Scott, John F. R.
Date of Publication
1948
written, and gave the judges con- siderable trouble in choosing the most meritorious papers. The afternoon meeting on February 6 in the school auditorium was most inspiring. The scholars sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," a Civil War favorite, in a thrilling manner. After a program of scripture
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by Col. John Fulton Reynolds Scott (U.S. Army, retired).
Author
Scott, John F. R.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1948
Physical Description
[21]-46 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 52, no. 2
Subjects
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863.
United States. - Army.
Memorials - United States.
Monuments - United States.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 52, number 2 (1948), p. 21-46Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.52
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A tribute

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Author
Eshleman, H. Frank
Date of Publication
1949?]
Call Number
973.76 E75
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prepared by H. Frank Eshleman, attorney-at-law of the Lancaster Co., Pa., Bar and pronounced by him in memory of the departed Union Army soldiers, of the Civil War in the Quarryville cemetery, near Quarryville borough, on Memorial Day, 1949, in the presence and hearing of a large, patriotic assemblage of citizens of the wide surrounding neighborhood.
Author
Eshleman, H. Frank
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1949?]
Physical Description
[2] p. ; 22 cm.
Subjects
Memorial Day addresses.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.76 E75
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The Spanglers

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Author
Castor, Henry,
Edition
[1st ed.].
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
813.54 C354
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Author
Castor, Henry,
Edition
[1st ed.].
Place of Publication
Garden City, N.Y
Publisher
Doubleday,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
308 p. 22 cm.
Notes
Signed by author.
Summary
A novel of a Lancaster, Pennsylvania family during the Civil War . The author is a native of Lancaster.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fiction.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.54 C354
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The Mount Joy Soldier's Orphan School

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Author
Heiges, George L.
Date of Publication
1944
, and because of this, we have here Pennsylvania history with a decided Lancaster County flavor. This sketch is concerned with the children of those gallant Pennsylvania men who defended the Union in the years of our Civil War; and can there- fore properly be considered as Civil War history. Also, as it
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by George L. Heiges.
Author
Heiges, George L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1944
Physical Description
[109]-[131] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 48, no. 5
Subjects
Curtin, Andrew Gregg, - 1815-1894.
Soldier's Orphan Schools.
Schools - Pennsylvania.
Orphans - Pennsylvania.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 48, number 5 (1944), p. 109-131Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.48
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The right to work : presentation at a public hearing of the National War Labor Board in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 1943, opposing maintenance of membership in six pending cases submitted by the unions at the Armstrong Cork Company's plants at Millville, Gloucester City and Camden, New Jersey; Pittsburgh and Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; and South Braintre, Massachusetts

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Author
Prentis, H. W.
Date of Publication
1943]
Call Number
814 P927rt
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By H.W. Prentis, Jr. ...
Author
Prentis, H. W.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster Press, Inc.,
Date of Publication
1943]
Physical Description
32 p. 19 cm.
Subjects
Armstrong Cork Company.
Open and closed shop - United States.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. National War Labor Board (1918-1919).
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
814 P927rt
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Personal experiences of a house that stood on the road : a paper

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Author
Motts, Sarah E.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
974.843 M922
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by Sarah E. Motts.
Author
Motts, Sarah E.
Place of Publication
Carlisle, Pa
Publisher
Hamilton Library Assoc.,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
11 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Carlisle (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.843 M922
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The backwoodsman and the Kentucky rifle

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Author
Landis, Bertha Cochran.
Date of Publication
1947
valleys of the Pequea and Conestoga. It is recorded in Rupp's "History of Lancaster County" that Martin Meylin erected a boring mill near the Big Spring, in 1719. These pioneers brought with them their ideas on the art of riflemaking and soon, necessity — their own protection — compelled them to invent
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by Bertha Cochran Landis.
Author
Landis, Bertha Cochran.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1947
Physical Description
[117]-119 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 51, no. 5
Subjects
Rifles.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - 1783-1865.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 51, number 5 (1947), p. 117-119Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.51
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Index to the grave records of soldiers of the war of 1812 buried in Ohio

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Author
Diefenbach, H. B.,
Date of Publication
1945]
Call Number
977.1 D559
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compiled 1945 by Mrs. H. B. Diefenbach, assisted by Mrs. C. O. Ross.
Author
Diefenbach, H. B.,
Place of Publication
[n. p
Date of Publication
1945]
Physical Description
71 p. 24 cm.
Subjects
United States - History - War of 1812 - Registers, lists, etc.
Ohio - Biography.
Additional Author
Ross, C. O.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
977.1 D559
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Secret history of the American revolution, an account of the conspiracies of Benedict Arnold and numerous others, drawn from the Secret service papers of the British headquarters in North America, now for the first time examined and made public

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Author
Van Doren, Carl,
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
973.381 V246
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by Carl Van Doren.
Author
Van Doren, Carl,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
The Viking press,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
3 p. l., [v]-xiv p., 2 l., [3]-534 p. illus. (map) ports., facsims. 24 cm.
Notes
Based largely on the Clinton papers in the William L. Clements library at the University of Michigan. Other sources cited are the Washington papers and the Papers of the Continental Congress at the Library of Congress. cf. Pref.
"This first edition is limited to five hundred ninety numbered copies signed by the author." This copy not numbered.
"Appendix ... Arnold-André correspondence [and] Clinton's narrative": p. [437]-495.
"General bibliography": p. [496]-499. "Chapter references": p. [500]-512.
Subjects
Arnold, Benedict, - 1741-1801.
Treason - United States.
Secret service - Great Britain.
United States. - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Additional Author
Clinton, Henry,
André, John,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.381 V246
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