Author: Samuel CurwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen
Author: Samuel CurwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen
Author: Samuel CurwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
American Culture Series, 1493-1875
Author: Ophelia Y. LoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The American Culture Series is a microfilm collection of early American books and pamphlets dated from 1493-1875 which provides primary source materials essential to the study of Americana. The collection consists of two parts. ACS I, which covers the time span from 1493-1806, is a complete unit of about 250 titles on 26 reels. ACS II, which extends the coverage to 1875, consists of more than 5,500 titles on reels 27 through 643.
Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, Etc., an American Refugee in England from 1775-1784, Comprising Remarks on the Prominent Men and Measures of that Period
Author: George Atkinson WardPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353607265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty
Author: Samuel CurwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, Etc
Author: Samuel CurwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Microbook Library of American Civilization
Author: Library Resources, incPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen
Author: George Atkinson WardPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330837689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Excerpt from Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen: Judge of Admiralty, Etc;, An American Refugee in England, From 1775 to 1784, Comprising Remarks on the Prominent Men and Measures of That Period; To Which Are Added, Biographical Notices of Many American Loyalist and Other Eminent Persons The original manuscripts from which the body of the following work has been compiled, were sent in detached parts by the respected writer to his niece, a grand-parent of the editor, (in whose family they have remained for more than sixty years, ) with the following injunction, viz.: "These papers were written partly by way of pastime, and partly with a view to future amusement, should it please the Sovereign Disposer of life to lengthen mine beyond the period of banishment and restore me again to my native country; otherwise may they prove an entertainment to my friends, to whom I commend them, requesting their care to keep them from the inspection of all others, they being negligently written and but for the eye of candor and friendship, without method or order, as memory served, whereby many faults and anachronisms happened (if a technical expression applied to more important events may be used about such insignificant trifles); if they shall afford them the least amusement, my purpose will be answered." The editor considers the present publication of these papers not only as in no wise a violation of the injunction of his venerated relative, but as due to his memory, to exhibit to his countrymen the purity of his motives, and the ardent affection he bore towards his native land, even when constrained by a sense of duty to turn his back upon it. Another inducement for the publication is furnished by the incidental light thrown upon the character of his brethren in exile, of whom scarcely any now survive, but whose numerous descendants feel a deep sense of the injustice to which most of them, in a season of great popular excitement, were unfortunately subjected, who, under less adverse circumstances, had filled with honor civil posts of high trust, and led to victory our arms in the provincial wars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Loyalism in New York During the American Revolution
Author: Alexander Clarence FlickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Washington's Spies
Author: Alexander RosePublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055339259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all. In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy’s battle plans and military strategy. Washington’s small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’ t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception—and proved an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells the unknown story of the Revolution–the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in the history books. But Washington’s Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.