Author: Walter Romeyn BenjaminPublisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Collector
Author: Walter Romeyn BenjaminPublisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox
Author: Francis Samuel DrakePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962)Publisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry
Author: Bernard Christian SteinerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Frost Genealogy in Five Families
Author: Norman Seaver FrostPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A genealogy and a history of the Frost families whose ancestry came from Mass., Maine, and Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived in Texas, New Jersey California, Vermont, Michigan, Virginia, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere.
Foster Genealogy
Author: Frederick Clifton PiercePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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History of the Town of Wayne, Kennebec County, Maine
Author: George W. WaltonPublisher:
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Category : Wayne (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain
Author: Arthur LeeA Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War
Author: James ThacherPublisher: Boston : Cottons & Barnard
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Category : American War of Independence, 1775-1783
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
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.