American Revolution
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Wolf Shenk

The will of God prevails—In great contests each party claims to act in accordence with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Harlow Giles Unger

Chapter 11 A Belgian Hare When the Virginia legislature reconvened in Richmond, British depredations had left fewer than 300 homes standing, and the depleted population was unable to offer legislators ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Laura Auricchio [Auricchio, Laura]

CHAPTER 15 TRIUMPH Lafayette emerged victorious from a night that could well have been his last, but the time for celebration was not yet at hand. A seasoned general, he ...
( Category: France December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Jack Kelly [Kelly, Jack]

Thirteen The Discipline of the Leggs 1778 “You might have tracked the army from White Marsh to Valley Forge by the blood of their feet,” George Washington wrote.1 A private ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Andrew Burstein [Burstein, Andrew; Isenberg, Nancy]

“River of Thieves” Jefferson’s handling of the Tripolitan War has to be one of the most instructive episodes in early U.S. foreign policy. Often seen as a diversion, the administration’s ...
( Category: National November 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

His career took a decided turn for the better after his marriage. Franklin published the Gazette and ran a shop that traded in a variety of commodities, possibly including slaves. ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1905-06-28 | Author:Joyce Chaplin [Chaplin, Joyce]

HIS DECISION to stay in London meant that he remained at the heart of an expanding empire, which daily offered up new opportunities in the sciences and just about everything ...
( Category: American Revolution October 14,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-11 | Author:Chernow, Ron [Chernow, Ron]

TWENTY-TWO STABBED IN THE DARK E ven as their feud worsened, both Hamilton and Jefferson pleaded with Washington to stand for a second term as president. It may have been ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-03 | Author:Nancy Rubin Stuart [Stuart, Nancy Rubin]

Hopes for a son’s tales about Yorktown for another generation of the Washingtons were crushed when George and Martha’s son, Jackie, died on November 5 from “putrid fever.” Struck by ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Andro Linklater [Linklater, Andro]

20 AGENT 13 REBORN NEW ORLEANS WAS WHERE JAMES WILKINSON had first transferred his loyalties to Spain. Two years later, it was where he had returned to negotiate his transition ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Tom Reiss [Reiss, Tom]

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Barbara Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara]

Another remarkable man, Dr. Gordon Seagrave, appeared at Maymyo at this time to offer his services. An American Baptist missionary surgeon of long experience in Burma, he was unorthodox, uncompromising, ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Gordon S. Wood

V Republicanism Amilitary victory over Great Britain may have been essential for the success of the Revolution, but for Americans it was scarcely the whole of the Revolution. Although the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Tim McGrath

Pursuit continued. By now both Alliance and the Duc had hoisted their colors, along with Alliance's signals for the Duc to “Shift for herself.” Despite her added cargo the Alliance ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

THE MANNER in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )