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Benjamin B. Brock Letter : January 6, 1863
No full textBenjamin details his regiment's recent movements and notes that smallpox and mumps have spread through Camp Alexander, where he is currently residing. He then describes the only two deaths in his regiment, both from disease
A plan of the position of Queenston
No full textHistorical map showing the plan of the Village of Queenston. It shows roads, boundaries of fields, relief, treed areas, ravines, wharfs, buildings, barracks, and the fuel yard. There is a note of the ‘position where Brock fell'.[signed] John Alexander, Lieut, Ryl. Engrs. and Henry Vavasour, Comg. Ryl. Engrs.Relief shown by hachures and shading.Geographic coverage from Niagara River to Village of St. Davids.Digital reproduction of map (76 x 87 cm.) in the Public Archives of Canada. National Map Collection. Library and Archives Canada.Georeferenced and modified from NMC Map number 22750 by Map, Data and GIS Library, Brock University
Douglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwright
No full textDouglas Alexander Stewart, poet, author and playwrigh
Letter to Alexander Hamilton, Queenston, from Alexander McLeod, Sherriff’s Office, Niagara, 18 July 1837
No full textLetter to Alexander Hamilton, Queenston, from Alexander McLeod, Sherriff’s Office,
Niagara. The letter states that he has no doubt the youth will get bail, and he has
enclosed a bond. He notes that the prisoners almost killed Wheeler yesterday, and six
of the criminals escaped, but were all retaken. The locks in their door, which opens into
the debtors ward, were picked by some of the debtors. When the old man was going in,
they shoved open the door and made a rush on him, beating him unmercifully with
sticks. He was able to defend himself and delayed them in their progress until the alarm
was raised and they were eventually secured. He notes that the debtors would not
assist Wheeler. He also states that Morrison is at present boarding with Mr. H.
Thompson, July 18, 1837. Postmarked Niagara U.C. 18 July 1837 (date handwritten)
Author inscription in William Hazlitt, essayist and critic; selections from his writings, with a memoir, biographical and critical by Alexander Ireland
No full textAuthor's gift inscription, "To W. C. Hazlitt Esq with kind regards, from Alexr Ireland," with tipped-in review of the book.ASU Library edition has inscription from Ireland to Hazlitt [a child of William Hazlitt?].
Hazlitt , William, 1778-1830.
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894
Deed from Alexander Hamilton Esquire to Edward Powell Esquire of Stamford
No full textDeed from Alexander Hamilton Esquire to Edward Powell Esquire of Stamford.
This is a writ of Fieri Facias [writ of execution directing a sheriff to take goods or
property of someone against whom a judgement has been rendered]. Alexander
McLeod of Stamford, is the Deputy Sheriff in the suit of the President, Directors
and Company of the Commercial Bank of the Midland District against Cadwallader
G. Pelton in the district of Niagara for 68 pounds 4 s. 3 farthings. Hamilton is
mentioned in the original writ, but he died before carrying this out. There is a red seal on the lower right hand corner. The document is signed by Alexander McLeod, Deputy and witnessed by
G.R. Shears and John McLaren, 1842
The Author of the Alexander Romance
No full textThis paper, which is based on a portion of the introduction of the author’s edition of Il Romanzo di Alessandro (Mondadori: Fondazione Valla 2007), surveys the generic components of the Alexander Romance in an attempt to arrive at a definition of the work. The argument builds on Merkelbach’s categorisation of elements and uses Fusillo’s insight into the novel as an ‘encyclopaedic genre’ to propose that ‘historical novel’ is not, as Hägg contended, a misnomer for the work. The main components I discuss are: ‘life’; praxeis; chreiai; Cynic elements, including choliambic poetry and utopian perspectives; and the Egyptian aspects of the narrative. A concluding jeu d’esprit offers a characterisation of the putative author, his antecedents and his process of composition.Richard Stoneman was for 25 years editor for classics at Croom Helm and then Routledge. In 1997 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow in the department of classics, University of Exeter. After retiring from publishing in 2006 he has been pursuing his researches on the Alexander legends and teaching a course on the subject at Exeter. His Penguin translation of the Alexander Romance was published in 1991, and a volume of translated Legends of Alexander the Great appeared from Everyman in 1994. Also in 1994 he co-edited Greek Fiction with John Morgan. His edition of the Greek recensions of the Alexander Romance was published (volume I) by the Fondazione Valla in 2007 – volumes II and III will follow over the next few years – and his Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend appeared from Yale University Press in spring 2008. He is the author of a number of other books on Greek history and travel, and is writing a book on oracles
Alexander\u27s Bandit Kings: Why Hellenistic Kings Went to War
No full textAfter the death of Alexander, the Great in 323 BCE at Babylon, his generals, friends, family, and even secretaries would fight for decades to control the spoils of his newly forged empire. Eventually a series of Hellenistic kingdoms would carve up his empire stretching from Western Greece to Northern India. For nearly 300 years after his death Alexander’s successors would fight a series of titanic and seemingly never-ending wars with each war simply leading into the next. The Seleucids and Ptolemies would fight six Syrian Wars and never manage to fully conquer one another, Pyrrhus of Epirus would go on a never-ending series of military expeditions each time failing until he was finally killed in skirmish in Argos. The question must be asked then what compelled the Hellenistic Kings to go to war so much? By looking at primary and secondary sources it becomes clear that Hellenistic Kings were motivate by a powerful fusion of economics, geography, military, ideological, and legitimacy needs that would propel them into war after war. This essay determines what these myriad reasons were specifically and how it affected the Hellenistic kingdoms rational for going to war
Author Correction: The dengue-specific immune response and antibody identification with machine learning
No full textCorrection to: npj Vaccineshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-023-00788-7, published online 20 January 2024 In this article, the affiliation details for author Alexander Horst were incorrectly given as Alexander Horst1,2 but should have been Alexander Horst1 and other affiliations are renumbered. The original article has been corrected
Alexander Woollcott, author and stage actor
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