February 20, 2022 | ISBN: 9781669639145 | Language: English | File size: 28 MB |MP3 | M4B | 1 Hours
The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by a besieging army of around 80,000 men led by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II ended the Byzantine Empire. The city's defense was in the hands of Emperor Constantine XI, who had 7,000 to 10,000 soldiers at his disposal and, likely, fell during the last storm on the city. The fall of the Byzantine Empire also marked the final rise of the Ottoman Empire to become a major power. The conquest has a high symbolic value in both Turkish and Western European reception; Depending on one's perspective, it is viewed as evidence of imperial greatness or as a beacon of decay and demise. In historiography, the conquest of Constantinople is sometimes cited as one of the events that marked the transition from medieval Europe to modern times.

Matthew Ward, "The Battle for Quebec 1759: Britain's Conquest of Canada"
English | ISBN: 0752419978 | 2005 | 286 pages | EPUB | 13 MB
The definitive history of the campaigns in Canada between the British and French Empires during the Seven Years War. On September 13, 1759, British and French forces fought one of the most decisive battles of history, on the Plains of Abraham outside the Canadian capital of Quebec. The British force decisively routed the French, seized the city and ultimately all of Canada. Both the French and British commanders fell in the battle, and ever since the pathos and heroism of the encounter have engrossed historians. The struggle for Quebec was far more than one climactic battle. The campaign involved an immense military and naval operation, an 18th-century D-Day, which had begun the year before. Matthew Ward has researched extensively in archives in Britain and Canada to look at the entire campaign for Quebec, from its inception in Whitehall to its ultimate culmination in Montreal in 1760. He has probed beyond the actions of commanders and generals, to examine the experiences of the campaign for the ordinary soldier and civilian. What emerges is not just a picture of bravery and heroism, but also of a campaign which became increasingly brutal and cruel, both sides resorting to practices such as the routine scalping of enemy dead. It is also a surprising picture of the day-to-day, often mundane, lives of civilians and troops many thousands of miles from home.

King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 by W B Bartlett | 4.34 MB
English | N/A Pages

Title: King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016
Author: W. B. Bartlett
Year: 2016

English | 2021 | ISBN: 0197537294 | 273 pages | True PDF| 110.1 MB
An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword.

A Peaceful Conquest - Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order
pdf | 2.3 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B01KCDRFK2 | Author: Burnidge, Cara Lea; | Year: 2016

A Peaceful Conquest by Cara Lea Burnidge
pdf | 2.85 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B01KCDRFK2 | Author: Burnidge, Cara Lea; | Year: 2016

David Nicolle - Yarmuk AD 636: The Muslim conquest of Syria
Osprey Publishing | 1994 | ISBN: 1855324148 | English | 91 pages | PDF | 113.2 MB
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Tom Shachtman, "Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0618082395, 0395938880 | PDF | pages: 190 | 2.1 mb
In this engrossing scientific chronicle, a perennial paperback favorite, Tom Shachtman combines science, history, and adventure in the story of our four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets of cold. Now a documentary based largely on Shachtman's acclaimed book promises to bring these exhilarating scientific accomplishments to a new audience. Underwritten by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and set to air on PBS and the BBC, the documentary was produced by British Emmy Award winner David Dugan, in collaboration with Meredith Burch of Meridian Productions in Washington, D.C.

A Laird's Conquest (Love Honou - Ashe Barker
epub | 328.94 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B09NCFQPM8 | Author: Ashe Barker | Year: 2021

English | 2015 | ISBN: 9781631491481 | 263 pages | True EPUB | 0.29 MB
"Should be read by every parent, teacher, minister, and Congressman in the land."-The AtlanticIn The Conquest of Happiness, first published by Liveright in 1930, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable malaise so prevalent even in safe and prosperous Western societies. More than eighty years later, Russell's wisdom remains as true as it was on its initial release. Eschewing guilt-based morality, Russell lays out a rationalist prescription for living a happy life, including the importance of cultivating interests outside oneself and the dangers of passive pleasure. In this new edition, best-selling philosopher Daniel C. Dennett reintroduces Russell to a new generation, stating that Conquest is both "a fascinating time capsule" and "a prototype of the flood of self-help books that have more recently been published, few of them as well worth reading today as Russell's little book."