Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
by A. T. Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
This edition features illustrations.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
THE TENDENCY OF WARS TO SPREAD
CHAPTER I
THE NAVAL CAMPAIGN ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN 1775-1776
CHAPTER II
NAVAL ACTION AT BOSTON, CHARLESTON, NEW YORK, AND NARRAGANSETT BAY—ASSOCIATED LAND OPERATIONS, TO THE BATTLE OF TRENTON 1776
CHAPTER...
by Henry Jones Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Henry Jones Ford (1851-1925) was a political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official who taught at Johns Hopkins University, and afterwards taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He later took a job as professor of politics at Princeton University, at the request of...
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors
American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that enabled the colonies to gain their independence. Spies, Patriots, and Traitors provides readers with a...
Becoming Men of Some Consequence
Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Young Continental soldiers carried a heavy burden in the American Revolution. Their experiences of coming of age during the upheavals of war provide a novel perspective on the Revolutionary era, eliciting questions of gender, family life, economic goals, and politics. "Going for a soldier" forced...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This study examines General George Washington and the establishment of American civil-military relations with respect to the principles of the Declaration of Independence to emphasize...
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
The history of the borders is filled with legends of the sufferings of isolated families, during the troubled scenes of colonial warfare. Those which we now offer to the reader, are distinctive in many of their leading facts, if not rigidly true in the details. The first alone is necessary to the legitimate objects of fiction.
The True Benjamin Franklin
An Illuminating Look into the Life of One of Our Greatest Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In spite of being dead for over two hundred years, Benjamin Franklin remains an object of fascination for many history buffs. He was a diplomat, postmaster, political theorist, politician, scientist, satirist, musician, civic activist, and so much more. With his manifold accomplishments, it is nearly...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
In 1791, The First Bank of the United States was a financial innovation proposed and supported by Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. Establishment of the bank was part of a three-part expansion of federal fiscal and monetary power, along with a federal mint and excise taxes....
The British Are Coming
The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply...
Voices from a Wilderness Expedition
The Journals and Men of Benedict Arnold's Expedition to Quebec in 1775
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The purpose of "Voices from a Wilderness Expedition" is to reawaken the now silent voices of the brave men who made the historic 1775 march through the Maine wilderness with Benedict Arnold to attack Quebec and conquer Canada. This book is not a chronological history of the expedition, but...
General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution
From Redcoat to Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Brave, humane, and generous . . . still he was only a brave, humane, and generous rebel; curse on his virtues, they've undone this country.
--Member of British Parliament Lord North, upon hearing of General Richard Montgomery's death in battle against the British
At 3 a.m. on December 31, 1775, a...
by Piers Mackesy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. Far less familiar is the fact that, for the British, the American colonies were only one front in a world war. England was also pitted against France and...
Through a Howling Wilderness
Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Newburyport, bound for the Maine wilderness. They were American colonists who had volunteered for a secret mission to paddle and march nearly two hundred miles through some of the wildest country in the colonies and seize the fortress city...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. No longer the purview of generals, American brigade and battalion commanders increasingly employ operational art. They execute campaigns with implications spanning all levels of war. Historical...