This is the history of Russia before the founding of St. Petersburg ... Published originally as Of the Russe Common Wealth, 1591, this is the second edition of the first English book about Russia. Well more than a century before Sankt Pieter Burkh…
From Governor Thomas Carney to Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield, Leavenworth, Kansas, telling of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence and calls for martial law in western Missouri, a court of inquiry and arms for citizens.