Word: accountants
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Although Franz Mehring writes in detail of Marx's opinions on the U. S. Civil War, readers who know The Education of Henry Adams may be disappointed with his account. In that book Henry Adams describes how his father, Charles Francis Adams, then Minister to England, successfully prevented English intervention on the side of the Confederacy, pays a tribute to Marx and the First International for having swung English public opinion to the Northern cause...
Unlike most accounts of the Russian campaign. Napoleon's victories seem, in Caulaincourt's account, almost more 'terrible than the famed retreat from Moscow. Day after day Napoleon's army raced after the fleeing Russians, whose complete disappearance seemed more mysterious and frightening as the troops became exhausted. None of Napoleon's spies returned. Counting on peasants to supply information and food, he found the country deserted. Believing that a battle would lead Alexander to sue for peace, he feverishly pursued an army that spread so widely he could scarcely determine the direction...
...story of the Boston Massacre is the famous account appearing in the Boston "Gazette and Country Journal" of March 17, 1770, 12 days after the event. This is illustrated with interesting wood cuts...
...Boston Tea Party is described in issues of the Boston "Evening Post" for December, 1773. An account of the Battles of Lexington and Concord appears in the Essex "Gazeite" of April...
...distributed among deserving men chosen from the 7729 students comprising the College and the twelve graduate schools. Fellowships and scholarships account for $433,000 of this, beneficiary aid for $85,000, prizes for $8,000, and loans...