Author: Francis Josiah HudlestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
Author: Francis Josiah HudlestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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John Burgoyne
Author: Richard O'ConnorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A biography of the English officer, member of Parliament, and playwright who was known as "Gentleman Johnny" and participated in several important campaigns of the Revolutionary War.
Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne. Misadventures of an English General in the Revolution ... Illustrated
Author: Francis Josiah HUDLESTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
John Burgoyne
Author: Daniel E. HarmonPublisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438143982
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
A biography of the British general whose defeat at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 was a turning point in the war.
Saratoga
Author: Rupert FurneauxPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000339106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The Grand Strategy, the imaginative plan to divide the rebellious American colonies, ended in disaster. On October 17, 1777, General Sir John Burgoyne, alone, unaided and stranded in the American wilderness, capitulated with his army at Saratoga in upper New York State. It was the ‘turning point’ of the Revolution, which culminated four years later in the British surrender at Yorktown. Creasy wrote of Saratoga: ‘Nor can any military event be said to have exercised more important influence upon the future fortunes of mankind...’ Who blundered? For nearly two centuries, Lord George Germain, the ‘maladroit’ minister, has been blamed, together with the Commander-in-Chief, Sir William Howe; but Burgoyne, ‘Gentleman Johnny’ as his affectionate troops called him, has largely escaped criticism. Only in the late 1960s had a full assessment become possible, by the publication of all the correspondence that passed between these men. Originally published in 1971, from his study of these letters, and by his visit to the campaign area, author Rupert Furneaux questions this long accepted view. The British disaster resulted, he says, not because anyone particularly blundered, or from any ‘pigeon-holed’ despatch, but rather because no one bargained that thousands of ordinary American citizens would rally to bar Burgoyne’s path. Experienced frontier-fighters and skilled marksmen, they mowed down the closely-ranked Redcoats and the German mercenaries, who had all been trained for European battles. Saratoga heralded a new age of warfare, which Europeans took another hundred years to learn. It was also far more than a British defeat; it was an American victory, the decisive battle whereby they won the right to run their own lives without interference from Europe – and with incalculable consequences.
The Heiress
Author: John BurgoyneGentleman Johnny Burgoyne
Author: Francis Josiah HudlestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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General Thomas Posey
Author: John Thornton PoseyPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 0870139460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Revolutionary War general Thomas Posey (1750-1818) lived his life against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic periods in American history. Posey, who played a minor role in the actual War for Independence, went on to participate in the development and foundation of several states in the transappalachian West. His experiences on the late 18th- and early 19th-century American frontier were varied and in a certain sense extraordinary; he served as Indian agent in Illinois Territory; as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, as U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and as Governor of Indiana during its transition from territorial status to statehood. His biographer speculates on the contrasting influences of Thomas's ne'er-do-well father, Captain John Posey, and the family's close friend, General George Washington. Posey's progress is then followed as he raises his own family in the newly formed nation. Of particular interest is an appendix containing a detailed analysis of evidence available to support popular 29th-century speculation that Thomas Posey was, in fact, George Washington's illicit son.
Saratoga
Author: Richard M. KetchumPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466879521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Historian Richard M. Ketchum's Saratoga vividly details the turning point in America's Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skillfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution. A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Award, 1997
Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
Author: F. J. HudlestonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780849252556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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