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American prospects for the war did not brighten with the spring of 1780. On May 12 in Charleston, South Carolina, British general Henry Clinton forced the surrender of General Lincoln, ...

epub |eng | 2006-08-14 | Author:Kate Berridge

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epub |eng | 2011-01-23 | Author:Martin Small

More Aimless Wandering The days and weeks after the escape from Koldichevo melded into one long struggle. Shmulek and I parted ways from the other escapees, banking on our own ...

mobi |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Walter Isaacson

Franklin’s First Articles of Confederation Plan For the colonies to cross the threshold of rebellion, they needed to begin conceiving of themselves as a new nation. To become independent of ...

epub |eng | 2005-07-25 | Author:R. R. Palmer [Palmer, R. R.]

CHAPTER X Dictated Economy TWO ideas gave purpose to the struggles in France during the Revolution, the rights of the individual and the sovereignty of the nation. Revolutionary philosophers saw ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-19 | Author:John Quincy Adams [Adams, John Quincy]

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epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Rick Santorum [Santorum, Rick]

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Jennie Stanford had been a quiet, if somewhat ostentatious presence so far, enduring the scorn of the more established San Francisco moneyed class with the same stoicism she had mustered ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Maxine Hong Kingston [Kingston, Maxine Hong]

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epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Roman Halter [Halter, Roman]

By the beginning of March, we had gotten the machines working again and the factory was back in action. Among the new SS, there was one sadistic woman officer who ...

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epub |eng | | Author:Hilda Gadea

11 WE SPENT THE month of December in harmony. Sometimes Ernesto ate with us. He would entertain us with the daily stories from the hospital and his activities as a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nina Sankovitch

* * * Four days after receiving news of the Boston Port Act, Josiah Quincy Jr. published an eighty-two-page critique of it, titled Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly ...

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* * * Four days after receiving news of the Boston Port Act, Josiah Quincy Jr. published an eighty-two-page critique of it, titled Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly ...

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