Author: George (Great Britain, King, III.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
July 1773 - December 1777
Author: George (Great Britain, King, III.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
July 1773-December 1777
Author: George III (King of Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
July 1773-December 1777
Author: George III (King of Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Correspondence from 1760 to December 1783
Author: Georg III. (Großbritannien, König)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Correspondence
Author: George (Great Britain, King, III.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The British Are Coming
Author: Rick AtkinsonPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1627790446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.
Valley Forge Historical Research Project
Author: Wayne K. BodlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Correspondence of King George the Third, from 1760 to December 1783
Author: George (Great Britain, King, III.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. WalkerPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410201737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military engineers, the Americans relied heavily on foreign officers, mostly from France, for sorely needed technical assistance. Native Americans joined the foreign engineer officers to plan and carry out offensive and defensive operations, direct the erection of fortifications, map vital terrain, and lay out encampments. During the war Congress created the Corps of Engineers with three companies of engineer troops as well as a separate geographer's department to assist the engineers with mapping. Both General George Washington and Major General Louis Lebéque Duportail, his third and longest serving Chief Engineer, recognized the disadvantages of relying on foreign powers to fill the Army's crucial need for engineers. America, they contended, must train its own engineers for the future. Accordingly, at the war's end, they suggested maintaining a peacetime engineering establishment and creating a military academy. However, Congress rejected the proposals, and the Corps of Engineers and its companies of sappers and miners mustered out of service. Eleven years passed before Congress authorized a new establishment, the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
Man's Estate
Author: Henry FrenchPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199576696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The first study on masculinity to focus on the English landed gentry. It covers the period from 1700 to 1900 and is based on several thousand letters written by 19 families. It concentrates on the common experiences of sons' upbringing, particularly schooling, university or business, foreign travel, and the move to family life and fatherhood.