Historian Kenneth Macksey found Liddell Hart's original letters to Guderian, in the General's papers, requesting that Guderian give him credit for " impressing him " with his ideas of armoured warfare.

The written history of China can be found as early as the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1700 – 1046 BC ), although ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian ( ca.

Historian Isabelle Dervaux has described the reception this painting received when it was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874: " Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy.

Historian Walter Rodney has searched the reports of the early Portuguese travelers to the area and found mention in them of only one, quite particular, kind of slavery among the Africans.

Zhang read many of the great works of history in his day and claimed he had found ten instances where the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145 – 90 BC ) and the Book of Han by Ban Gu ( AD 32 – 92 ) differed from other ancient texts that were available to him.

The relevant records can be found in Records of the Grand Historian in 91 BC, Book of Han in AD 111, Book of the Later Han in the 5th century and Records of the Three Kingdoms in the 3rd century.

The earliest reliable reference ( circa 100 BCE ) to Laozi is found in the Records of the Grand Historian ( Shiji ) by Chinese historian Sima Qian ( ca.

Historian Joseph Ellis has found that the 1200 letters between John and Abigail " constituted a treasure trove of unexpected intimacy and candor, more revealing than any other correspondence between a prominent American husband and wife in American history.

" Historian Fritz Trautz went so far to write: " The silly fairytale, which to this day moves many pens and has found much belief, was fully disproved in Otto Mittelstädt's book.

Historian and political scientist Maurice Manning wrote that Browne " had the capacity to inspire fierce loyalty, but many of those who worked with and against him over the years found him difficult, self-centred, unwilling to accept the good faith of his opponents and often profoundly unfair in his intolerance of those who disagreed with him ".

Historian Barbara M. Kreutz described the report found in the De Administrando Imperio that the Byzantines played a major role in the 871 fall of the Emirate of Bari as a probable concoction.

The book contained 27 chapters, 11 of which were found to be similar to the contents in Zhan Guo Ce and the Records of the Grand Historian.

" Historian James M. McPherson wrote, " Had Jackson still lived, he undoubtedly would have found it practicable.

Historian Gordon Warren wrote that Williams found that, “ forts were either decaying or nonexistent, and the amount of necessary remedial work was stupefying .” On December 2, at Williams ’ urging, the Canadian government agreed to raise its active volunteer force to 7, 500.

Historian Robert Becker found a location to which the Hondius Broadside map could apply at Tom ’ s Point on the east side of Tomales Bay.

Historian Thomas J. McGuire says that 53 Americans were buried on the battlefield but " whether these were all of the American dead or only those found on the campsite-battlefield is uncertain.

Historian Walter Laqueur found the term ' clerical fascism ' mentioned earlier, even before Mussolini's March on Rome ( October 1922 ), referring to " a group of Catholic believers in Northern Italy who advocated a synthesis of Catholicism and fascism ".

Historian Edwin Coddington, otherwise critical of Slocum's dilatory response, found that it was highly doubtful whether they could have deployed beyond the town in time to mount a counterattack in support of the retreating XI Corps.

Historian Juan Gil, researching Pinzón's family life, found strong circumstantial evidence that his first wife left behind a mansion in Triana, across the river from Seville: her own property, not his, which passed into the hands of the daughters.

Historian Ján Křen said in interview that when Karel Bartošek and other co-authors found out the book " is heading towards conjectural shallowness, in which communism is reduced to terror only, there was a bad conflict, which couldn't be solved, because agreement was signed and Stephane Courtois pressured them ".

Historian Oleg Khlevniuk has found no evidence in Soviet archives that suggests Ordzhonikidze disagreed with the Moscow Trials, including the arrest, conviction, and execution of Pyatakov.

Historian Thomas Bicknell, on the other hand, found Coddington's actions to be totally justified, accusing Roger Williams of usurping Coddington's successful island government with the Patent of 1643.

" Historian and genealogist Virginia DeMarce and Paul Heinegg have found that 80 percent of the individuals listed as free persons of color in 1790 and 1810 were descended from African Americans free in colonial Virginia.

Historian Severine Silva reasons that the fact that these Catholics who fled the Inquisition did not abandon their Christian faith was because they simply wanted to observe their traditional Hindu customs along with their new found Catholic practices.

Historian Thomas Bicknell called it " the most remarkable document that was issued during the period preceding the War of the Revolution.

Historian George Herring notes the " remarkable and fortuitous economic and diplomatic gains " produced by the Jay Treaty.

Historian Rafe de Crespigny notes that Mi Fang had the remarkable record of serving each of the leaders of the Three Kingdoms during his lifetime.

In another volume of Records of the Grand Historian, Youxia ( 游俠列傳 ), Sima Qian detailed several embryonic features of xia culture from his period.

Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.

Historian Geoff Phillips comments that this " was a profound statement of the culture of the time ".

Historian James Lockhart has divided the colonial history of the Nahua into three stages according to the degree of interaction between Spaniards and Nahuas and the following changes in Nahua culture.

Historian Teresa Wilniewczyc noted, that his zeal for totalitarian control over the world of Polish culture was " far more than was required ".

The naturalistic and flowing art, the Songs of Chu, historical records ( Records of the Grand Historian ), excavated bamboo documents ( Guodian bamboo slips ) and other artifacts reveal heavy Daoist and native folk influence in Chu culture.

Historian Gregory Schneider identifies several constants in American conservatism: respect for tradition, support of republicanism, " the rule of law and the Christian religion ", and a defense of " Western civilization from the challenges of modernist culture and totalitarian governments ".

Historian Milo Milton Quaife, however, regarded Kinzie's account of Point du Sable as " largely fictitious and wholly unauthenticated ".

Historian John Mack Faragher cautions that the folk image of Boone as semiliterate is misleading, however, arguing that Boone " acquired a level of literacy that was the equal of most men of his times.

Historian Richard Kluger, however, described the difficulties of the task:

Historian Stephen W. Sears, however, states that there is no basis to the claims that Hooker was either a heavy drinker, or that he was ever intoxicated on the battlefield.

Historian and Ford biographer Stephen B. Oates, however, concludes that Union deaths were much higher, numbering approximately 30, many of whom drowned in the Rio Grande or were attacked and killed by French border guards on the Mexican side.

Historian Leon Litwack states in his essay " Hellhounds ", however, that during an investigation by a white detective that was separate to the Wells-organised investigation, Cranford's wife revealed that Hose had never entered the house and had acted in self-defence.

Historian John Paul Hill considers this unlikely, however, because two of Chandler's strongest allies, Connie Mack and Walter Briggs, Sr., were ardently opposed to integration while William DeWitt, the second owner in the American League to integrate, voted against him.

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Historian Moshe Sharon dismisses that asserion however, citing the absence of their claims in any Jewish sources and the earlier Muslim reports.

Historian Alex Woolf, however, presents the case that the genealogists have erroneously inserted Bede's Cadwallon into the pedigree of the unrelated Kings of Gwynedd as son of Cadfan.

Historian Ronald Hutton however believed that it was more accurate to state that the cunning craft, rather than dying out, " changed character " by being absorbed into other magical currents.

Historian Patrick Gallo, however, in For Love and Country: The Italian Resistance ( University Press Of America, 2003 ), argues that the Rome-based Resistance not only undermined German morale but also achieved important strategic objectives and was hence not a useless provocation, as contended by critics, but an act of legitimate military significance in furthering the Allied victory.

Historian and journalist Louis-Guy Lemieux, however, claims that about 40 % of Quebecers have Irish ancestry on at least one side of their family tree.

Historian Steven Runciman repeated the assertion, however it is unknown where the fleet originated and would not have been under Edgar's command.

Historian Jose N. Sevilla y Tolentino, however, suggested that Dula was not a personal name at all, but a local word for “ Palace ,” such that “ Lakandula ” was the local-language title, “ Lord of the Palace ” of the rulers of Tondo.

Historian Jean Fremigacci, however, has recently contested this estimate, highlighting the difficulties of historical research on the matter ( due to dispersion of archives, etc.

Additional titles of Fleet Surgeon and Historian are assigned by the Commodore, however, they are not members of the Board of Trustees.

Historian Mark Summers concludes that Pike stressed the sensational, but " however maliciously and mendaciously he shaded his evidence, his accounts squared with those of his colleagues Charles Nordhoff of the New York Herald and H. P.

The primary literary ancestor of The Historian, however, is Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

It is important to note, however, that few scholars today believe that Sima Qian's account of the book-burning in the Records of the Grand Historian -- the source of our knowledge about this event -- reflects what actually happened.