Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books

Cover of Colonial and Revolutionary America
by Alan Gallay
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016

Colonial and Revolutionary America takes a regional approach to understanding the peoples and colonies of early America. It places early America into an Atlantic and comparative context, with emphasis on the impact of trade, warfare, migration, and the vast cultural exchange that took place among...
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The American Revolution

A Historical Guidebook

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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

In 1996, Congress commissioned the National Park Service to compile a list of sites and landmarks connected with the American Revolution that it deemed vital to preserve for future generations. Some of these sites are well known--Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Fort Ticonderoga--and in no danger of being...
Cover of Connecticut's Black Soldiers, 1775-1783
by David O. White
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Black soldiers of the American Revolution? Not a credible statement in light of what most Americans have read about the Revolutionary War. We have heard of Casimir Pulaski the Pole, Marquis de Lafayette the Frenchman, and Baron von Steuben the German, but not black participants. Yet, close to 5,000...
Cover of April 19, 1775: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battles of Lexington & Concord
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013

*Includes Revere's account of his Midnight Ride and Longfellow's famous poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"*Discusses some of the myths and legends about the Midnight Ride and the Battles of Lexington & Concord, including the debate over who fired first. *Includes pictures of important people, places,...
Cover of Hearts and Minds: The Political and Military Effectiveness of the Rhode Island Militia in the American Revolution - War of Independence, Revolutionary War, Indian Threats, Colonial Wars, Gaspee
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This paper analyzes the political and military effectiveness of the Rhode Island militia during the Revolutionary War. Through careful study of the roots of Rhode Island and its militia forces,...
Cover of The War Before Independence
by Derek W. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck continues...
Cover of With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
by Matthew H. Spring
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011

The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought. This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American...
Cover of The History of the American Revolution
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013

*Covers every major event in the history of the American Revolution, from the Sugar Act of 1764 to the Treaty of Paris in 1783.*Profiles the military and political leaders of the American Revolution and the roles they played, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Benedict...
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Band of Giants

The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence

by Jack Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing...
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A Leap in the Dark

The Struggle to Create the American Republic

by John Ferling
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003

It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations....
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William Diamond'S Drum

The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution

by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013

William Diamond's drum roll in 1775 was the call to arms for the farmers and villagers in Massachusetts that began the American revolution. The book is a well researched history of the war and various battles therein. It is written in a manner to make for an exciting retelling of history.
Cover of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
by Sarah Vowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in...
Cover of Sensibility and the American Revolution
by Sarah Knott
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self. Sensibility was a cultural movement that celebrated the human capacity...
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Independence Lost

Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

by Kathleen DuVal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015

**A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award • Winner of the Society of the...
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