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From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. Meanwhile, Confederate reinforcements bolstered the numbers of the Army of Tennessee, and by the time the two armies met at the Battle of Chickamauga, in northern Georgia, the Confederates had gained numerical superiority.

American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties in the United States that places the US party system into a framework designed around the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. White and Kerbel argue that the two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement on the key values of freedom, individual rights, and equality of opportunity, but that Hamilton and Jefferson disagreed—often vehemently—over how to translate these ideals into an acceptable form of governance.

Sixteen-year-old Angela Belle has just become a full-fledged airship Tinker! To celebrate this Captain Windy darling takes her along with some of the Airship Neverland's crew to enjoy the warm and sunny beaches of the beautiful tropical island of Krakatoa. All is well until a storm brings in an East India Trading ship towing the most feared pirates of them all; The deadly women of the Yom Junood.Now only Tinker Belle stands between her hapless crew, the deadly she-pirates, and the unyielding privateers.

Grand Admiral Winifred Darling has just been promoted to command the entire defenses of The Brytish Admiralty. Her first assignment is to defend the Kingdom against the return of the disgraced exile Captain James Hooker. Allied with a fleet of she-pirates and his eldritch paramour, the witch Elspeth, Hooker is bent on the destruction of the ruling family including the infant Peter, Prince of the Air Nation.