Author: James GibsonPublisher: Boston : Redding
ISBN:
Category : Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Boston Merchant of 1745, Or, Incidents in the Life of James Gibson, a Gentleman Volunteer at the Expedition to Louisburg
Author: James GibsonPublisher: Boston : Redding
ISBN:
Category : Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Seeds of Discontent
Author: J. Revell CarrPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802777619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Popularly, the causes of the American Revolution are considered the Stamp Act and other repressive actions by the Crown against its colonies in the years following the French & Indian War. Some see the sources in the outcome of that war, when George III forbade settlement beyond the Alleghenies. J. Revell Carr takes a longer view, and in Seeds of Discontent, he locates the roots of the Revolution a century earlier. In the latter half of the 17th century, tensions between colonists and the Crown were strikingly similar, culminating in the Revolution of 1689. Though subsequent decades were relatively peaceful, the bitterness was not forgotten, and friction began to build throughout the 1720s and 30s, reaching a peak after the famed 1745 battle for Louisbourg, the seemingly impregnable French fortress in Nova Scotia. Won on England's behalf at great cost to the largely American-born strike force, it was given back to France two years later in return for French concessions in the Caribbean-an act that outraged politicians, citizens, and soldiers alike. Bringing to life the two generations that inspired our Founding Fathers, Revell Carr illuminates an eventful century largely ignored by historians.
Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
Author: William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts, 1741-1756
Author: George Arthur WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Columbia University Studies in the Social Sciences
Author: Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Catalog ... of the American Historical Library, Collection of Alfred S. Manson, Boston, Mass
Author: Alfred Small MansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
A Boston Merchant of 1745; Or, Incidents in the Life of James Gibson, a Gentleman Volunteer at the Expedition to Louisburg; with a Journal of that Siege, Never Before Published in this Country
Author: James GibsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Breton
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description