The Unfortunate Colonel Despard and Other Studies (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Unfortunate Colonel Despard and Other Studies (Classic Reprint) written by Sir Charles Oman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Unfortunate Colonel Despard and Other Studies I have from time to time been asked by friends to make more accessible one or other of the eleven essays, or studies, which have now been collected into this volume. I may mention that six of them have appeared as articles in various magazines or reviews, three were addresses given to the Royal Historical Society, one was a lecture given at Cologne to classes from the Rhineland Army of Occupation, the eleventh is an unpublished study written last summer. I have to make grateful acknowledgement of the courtesy of the proprietors of Blackwood's Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, The Nineteenth Century and After, and The Economic Review, all of whom have permitted me to reprint certain papers which I contributed to their periodicals. From Blackwood come the essays on Colonel Despard, Arthur Thistle wood, and the Earthly Paradise; from The Edinburgh Review, the study of Lord Carteret; from The Nineteenth Century, the article on the Trials of the Historian; and from The Economic Review, the note on the Debasement of the English Currency by the Tudors. The Council of the Royal Historical Society also permit me to reproduce the three Presidential Addresses which I made to them in 1918-20 on Rumour in Time of War, the Historical Outlook of the Middle Ages, and the Drawing of Boundaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.