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Languages : en
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Letter from Lieutenant General Heister to George Germain, in French, Regarding Hessian Troops Ambushed and Taken Prisoner
Author: Letter in French from Lieutenant General Heister Reporting on His Success at the Battle of Brooklyn, with Two Enclosures Including a Letter from Lord Howe Discussing a Suggestion for Improving Colonel Donop's Jäger Corps
Author: Letter in French from Lieutenant General Heister Reporting on His Success at the Battle of Brooklyn, with Two Enclosures Including a Letter from Lord Howe Discussing a Suggestion for Improving Colonel Donop's Jäger Corps
Author: Two Drafts, Written in French, Sent to Lieutenant General Heister Conveying Instructions for the Deployment of Hessian Troops in Northern America and Recommending the Service of Major Holland
Author: American Archives
Author: Peter ForcePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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The Hessians
Author: Rodney AtwoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A study of the German auxiliaries who fought with the British against the American colonists.
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.
Naval Documents of the American Revolution
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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Revolutionary Summer
Author: Joseph J. EllisPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307701220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of First Family presents a revelatory account of America's declaration of independence and the political and military responses on both sides throughout the summer of 1776 that influenced key decisions and outcomes.
The Chronicles of Baltimore
Author: John Thomas ScharfPublisher: Baltimore : Turnbull Bros.
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Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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