Author: WILLIAM H. EGLEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033851838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
PENNSYLVANIA IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION,
Author: WILLIAM H. EGLEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033851838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution
Author: William Henry EglePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Beyond Philadelphia
Author: John B. FrantzPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The story of the American Revolution in rural Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's Revolution
Author: William PencakPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027103579X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
"A collection of essays on the American Revolution in Pennsylvania. Topics include the politicization of the English- and German-language press and the population they served; the Revolution in remote areas of the state; and new historical perspectives on the American and British armies during the Valley Forge winter"--Provided by publisher.
Germantown
Author: Michael C. HarrisPublisher: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 161121520X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The award–winning author of Brandywine examines a pivotal but overlooked battle of the American Revolution’s Philadelphia Campaign. Today, Germantown is a busy Philadelphia neighborhood. On October 4, 1777, it was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital—and the site of one of the American Revolution’s largest battles. Now Michael C. Harris sheds new light on this important action with a captivating historical study. After defeating Washington’s rebel army in the Battle of Brandywine, General Sir William Howe took Philadelphia. But Washington soon returned, launching a surprise attack on the British garrison at Germantown. The recapture of the colonial capital seemed within Washington’s grasp until poor decisions by the American high command led to a clear British victory. With original archival research and a deep knowledge of the terrain, Harris merges the strategic, political, and tactical history of this complex operation into a single compelling account. Complete with original maps, illustrations, and modern photos, and told largely through the words of those who fought there, Germantown is a major contribution to American Revolutionary studies.
Soldiers' Revolution
Author: Gregory T. KnouffPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"The Soldiers' Revolution offers us a rare glimpse into the everyday world of the American Revolution. We see how the common experience of war drew soldiers together as they began the long process of forging an identity for a fledgling nation."--Jacket.
The Pennsylvania-German in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
Author: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg RichardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Disaffected
Author: Aaron SullivanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In 1777, the war came to Philadelphia when the city was taken and occupied by the British army. Aaron Sullivan explores the British occupation of Philadelphia, chronicling the experiences of a group of people who were pursued, pressured, and at times persecuted, not because they chose the wrong side of the Revolution but because they tried not to choose a side at all. For these people, the war was neither a glorious cause to be won nor an unnatural rebellion to be suppressed, but a dangerous and costly calamity to be navigated with care. Both the Patriots and the British referred to this group as "the disaffected," perceiving correctly that their defining feature was less loyalty to than a lack of support for either side in the dispute, and denounced them as opportunistic, apathetic, or even treasonous. Sullivan shows how Revolutionary authorities embraced desperate measures in their quest to secure their own legitimacy, suppressing speech, controlling commerce, and mandating military service. In 1778, without the Patriots firing a shot, the king's army abandoned Philadelphia and the perceived threat from neutrals began to decline—as did the coercive and intolerant practices of the Revolutionary regime. By highlighting the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the conflict, The Disaffected reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.
Brandywine
Author: Michael C. HarrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781611213225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Harris's Brandywine is the first complete study to merge the strategic, political, and tactical history of this complex operation and important set-piece battle into a single compelling account.
A Generous and Merciful Enemy
Author: Daniel KrebsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners’ responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a “generous and merciful enemy” to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.