Revolutionary category: 2684 books
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783
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...
by King George III
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the...
by Robert F Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
George Rogers Clarke was the hero of the Western Frontier during the American Revolutionary War, capturing virtually the entire Ohio Valley from the British with his victory at Fort Vincennes. This brief sketch outlines the glories of those battles and disappointments of Clarke's campaigns.
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
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...
by Brett F. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Philosopher, diplomat, politician, inventor, writer, architect, even gardener, from a historical perspective Thomas Jefferson emerges as an extraordinary individual  one who was clearly many things to many people. But, too, precisely because of these same collective endeavors, he has become so much...
by Hassan Enrique Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Common Sense (Thomas Paine):Very popular and widely read pamphlet, first published in January of 1776, clearly and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for the Declaration of Independence. This very influential landmark document attacks the monarchy, cites...
A Narrative of Ethan Allen's Captivity
Containing His Voyages and Travels
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
The well-known patriot and leader of the Green Mountain Boys was arrested by the British in 1775 during a failed attempt to capture Montreal. Imprisoned aboard Royal Navy ships, paroled in New York City, and finally released in a 1778 prisoner exchange, Ethan Allen offers a stirring firsthand account of the early years of the Revolutionary War.
America's Founding Fathers
Their Uncommon Wisdom and Wit
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Arguably, no other revolution in history has enjoyed such a brilliant gallery of thinkers as the one that led to the founding of the United States. America’s Founding Fathers is centered on the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of the exemplary men who founded our...
The Road to Mobocracy
Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social corrective, tolerated by public officials. It became...
Revolution Is My Name
An Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A writer, a university professor, a woman: this is the insightful and humorous description of one hesitant revolutionary's experiences through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in January/February 2011. Juggling humor and horror, hope and fear,...
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76)
Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / pamphlets, articles, and letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I...
Wabash 1791
St Clair’s defeat
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
The battle of Wabash, or St. Clair's Massacre, was the greatest defeat of the American Army by Native American forces. The campaign opened in 1791, when an newly formed American Army, under the command of Revolutionary War hero, Arthur St. Clair, set off into the wilderness of Ohio in an effort to...
Kings Mountain and Cowpens
Our Victory Was Complete
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
From the rocky slopes of Kings Mountain to the plains of Hannah�s Cowpens, the Carolina backcountry hosted two of the Revolutionary War�s most critical battles. On October 7, 1780, the Battle of Kings Mountain utilized guerilla techniques�American Over Mountain Men wearing buckskin and hunting...
by Mercy Otis Warren
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Mercy Warren wrote early drafts of this 1300+ page book near the time of the events described. Mercy writes in the third person even when dealing with events involving her immediate family. James Otis (early advocate of the rights of the colonies) was her brother, and James Warren (speaker of the...