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"Sharpe's Skirmish" is a historical short story by Bernard Cornwell in the Richard Sharpe series. "Sharpe's Skirmish" was first written in 1998. British bookseller W. H. Smith [1] devised the idea of giving away a Sharpe short story with every copy of Sharpe's Fortress. This irritated other publishers, and only a few thousand copies were printed.
The first skirmish took place on June 15, 1832 and resulted in the deaths of three members of the militia. The second skirmish occurred on June 25 and killed five militia members and at least nine Native Americans. [2] Much of the second battle was fought at the Kellogg log cabin and barn where 25 horses and three militia men were killed. [2]
Jay Robert Nash (November 26, 1937 – April 22, 2024) was an American author of more than 80 true crime books [1] once called the "world's foremost encyclopedist of crime." [2] Among Nash's crime anthologies are Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen and Outlaws, Look For the Woman, Bloodletters and Badmen, and The Great Pictorial History of World Crime.
The skirmish was the result of enmity between the House of Hamilton and the "Red" Angus line of the House of Douglas who were locked in a struggle for supremacy since the death of King James IV. James' death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 had created a power vacuum in the Kingdom of Scotland. [ 2 ]
The Guardian wrote "Most of all, the book leaves the image of the showrunner: the possibly unstable writer, in charge of every detail of a massive artistic-commercial enterprise." [5] The Boston Globe said "But the point of “Difficult Men” is not merely to post images of our writer-producer heroes’ clay feet onto Instagram. It is, instead ...
The plot centres around the James-Younger Gang and their activities.. Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, captures the survivors of the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders and convinces them to give themselves up and pledge their allegiance to the Union.
In the skirmish 9 of the Duke of Cumberland's men had been killed, a good number were wounded and about 80 were taken prisoner. [2] On Prince Charlie's side there was one Frenchman killed, but a good many wounded, particularly among Lord Ogilvie's men who had been exposed to the fire from the kirk.
Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California , searching for jobs during the Great Depression .