Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Life of George Washington
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
George Washington
Author: Woodrow WilsonThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr
Author: Arthur S. LefkowitzPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811768546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The final meeting of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr took place in in 1804. It ended with Burr mortally wounding Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton and Burr first met in 1776, during the American Revolution. Their wartime experiences would shape their lives as Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr recounts. They were both young American officers at the time working to defend New York City against a British attack. Burr was a tough Revolutionary War combat veteran, having fought in the 1775 campaign to seize Canada from the British. In Canada, Burr battled alongside then Colonel Benedict Arnold and attacked the walled city of Quebec with General Richard Montgomery. Burr next accepted an invitation to join Washington’s headquarters staff. This book includes an account of Captain Burr’s brief tenure on the job that led to a lifelong animosity between him and Washington. In 1776, Hamilton was a captain and commander of a New York State artillery company. He leveled his cannons at the British at New York City, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton before joining Washington’s headquarters staff. Both Hamilton and Burr wintered at Valley Forge and fought in the day-long Battle of Monmouth. After recounting the Revolutionary War exploits of Hamilton and Burr, this book then describes their postwar lives and political rivalry and why Washington told then President John Adams in 1798 that Hamilton was his principal aide de camp. Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr is a fresh approach to the American Revolution from the standpoint of two of its most interesting participants.
George Washington
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306805936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (published in five volumes in 1856-59) was the product of his last years and remains his most personal work. Christened with the name of the great general, Irving was blessed by Washington while still a boy of seven, and later came to know many of the prominent figures of the Revolution. In these pages he describes them using firsthand source material and observation. The result is a book which is fascinating not only for its subject (the American Revolution), but also for how it reveals in illuminating detail the personality and humanity of a now remote, towering icon. Here is an intimate portrait of Washington the man, from Virginia youth to colonial commander to commander-in-chief of the patriot army to first president and great guiding force of the American federation. But one cannot read Irving's Life without marveling at the supreme art behind it, for his biography is foremost a work of literature. Charles Neider's abridgment and editing of Irving's long out-of-print classic has created a literary work comparable in importance and elegance to the original. George Washington, A Biography, Neider's title for his edition of Irving's Life, makes the work accessible to modern audiences. The extensive introduction provides a detailed analysis of Irving's life and times, and the difficulties he faced as he worked against his own failing health to finish what he felt was his masterpiece. This new edition of the superb biography of America's first citizen by America's first literary artist remains as fresh and unique today as when it was penned.
The Supplemental Catalogue of the Melbourne Public Library for 1865
Author: Melbourne Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Wrestling With His Angel
Author: Sidney BlumenthalPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501153781
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Explores how the sixteenth president rebounded from the disintegration of the Whig Party and took on the anti-Immigration party in Illinois to clear a path for a new Republican Party.
The Life and Letters of Washington Irving
Author: Pierre Munroe IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The catalogue of the Melbourne public library. Suppl. catalogue
Author: Melbourne state libr. of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description