Author: Walter Scott Seton-KarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Marquess Cornwallis
Author: Walter Scott Seton-KarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Rulers of India: The Marquess Cornwallis
Author: Sir William Wilson HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Marquess Cornwallis and the Consolidation of British Rule
Author: Walter Scott Seton-KarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The American Revolution
Author: Gordon S. WoodPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588361586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.”—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had. No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood’s mastery of his subject, and of the historian’s craft.
The governors-general and Dupleix: Marquess Cornwallis, Marquess Wellesley, Marques of hastings, Earl Amherst, Lord William Bentinck, Earl of Auckland, Viscount hardings, Dupleix
Author: George Devereux OswellPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis
Author: Charles Cornwallis Marquis CornwallisPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence, of the Marquess Wellesley, K. G.
Author: Marquess Richard Wellesley WellesleyPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondance, of the Marquess Wellesley, K. G. During His Administration in India
Author: Arthur Wellesley of WellingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence, of the Marquess Wellesley, K. G.
Author: Richard Colley Wellesley (marquess Wellesley)Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Cornwallis Papersthe Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Theatre of the American Revolutionary War
Author: Charles Cornwallis Marquis CornwallisPublisher: Naval & Military Press
ISBN: 9781845747923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
"This work deals with Britain's last throw of the dice in the American Revolutionary War. Comprising six volumes, it contains a fully edited transcript of almost all the papers that were written by, or came before, Lord Cornwallis during his command in the south. The papers cover the siege of Charlestown, his tenuous occupation of South Carolina and Georgia, the autumn, winter and Virginia campaigns, and ultimately his capitulation at Yorktown. Among a mass of matters that are also covered are Craig's occupation of Wilmington, his operations there, the Spanish threat to East Florida, and the eventual collapse of British authority elsewhere in the south. The papers are arranged in 14 parts and 68 chapters. In view of the numberless inaccuracies published about the war most parts begin with an introductory chapter, the purpose of which is to present the papers in an accurate, balanced and dispassionate way. Whether such chapters are seen to succeed will, inevitably, depend to a degree on the perspective from which the papers are viewed. The papers open the door to re-evaluating certain aspects of the war. The introductory chapters very briefly provide pointers besides addressing certain important considerations that have long gone by default"--Publisher's description.