Author: Jeptha Root SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
History of Schoharie County and Border Wars of New York
Author: Jeptha Root SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Constitution and By-laws; Vol. 1, 1901
Author: New York State Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Catalogue of the Historical Library of M.D. Gilman ...
Author: M. D. GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
the historical magazine and notes and queries concerning the antiques, history and biography of america vol. 1 second series
Author: The Gavel
Author: American Book Prices Current
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
1777
Author: Dean SnowPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190618779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces led by General John Burgoyne. The British strategy in confronting the Americans in upstate New York was to separate rebellious New England from the other colonies. Despite inferior organization and training, the Americans exploited access to fresh reinforcements of men and materiel, and ultimately handed the British a stunning defeat. The American victory, for the first time in the war, confirmed that independence from Great Britain was all but inevitable. Assimilating the archaeological remains from the battlefield along with the many letters, journals, and memoirs of the men and women in both camps, Dean Snow's 1777 provides a richly detailed narrative of the two battles fought at Saratoga over the course of thirty-three tense and bloody days. While the contrasting personalities of Gates and Burgoyne are well known, they are but two of the many actors who make up the larger drama of Saratoga. Snow highlights famous and obscure participants alike, from the brave but now notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold to Frederika von Riedesel, the wife of a British major general who later wrote an important eyewitness account of the battles. Snow, an archaeologist who excavated on the Saratoga battlefield, combines a vivid sense of time and place — with details on weather, terrain, and technology — and a keen understanding of the adversaries' motivations, challenges, and heroism into a suspenseful, novel-like account. A must-read for anyone with an interest in American history, 1777 is an intimate retelling of the campaign that tipped the balance in the American War of Independence.
History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York
Author: Jay GouldPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438485417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
When Jay Gould died in 1892 he left behind an estate worth the equivalent of seventy-eight billion in today's dollars. He also left behind a reputation as one of Wall Street's most shrewd, astute, and (some said) manipulative operators. Long before his adventures in finance, the future "robber baron" was a young man on the make in his native Catskills, working as a surveyor and mapmaker in his natal place of Delaware County, where he had grown up side by side with the future writer and naturalist John Burroughs. Originally published in 1856, when Gould was just twenty, Gould's History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York is based on primary sources and original testimony from second and third generation settlers, many of them Gould's own friends and cousins. The book continues to be an important source on the first settlement of the region and is highly regarded by scholars. This edition features a new introduction by Edward Renehan, the biographer of both Gould and John Burroughs.
History of Schoharie County, and Border Wars of New York
Author: Jeptha Root SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description