American Revolution
epub |eng | 2023-11-07 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

* * * — Edmund Randolph owed it to the dignity of his office as secretary of state to recast Hamilton’s instructions in his own words, but Hamilton’s recommendations became ...
( Category: American Revolution November 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-10-10 | Author:Brooke Barbier [Barbier, Brooke]

In the middle of one night, an express letter from Washington arrived for Hancock advising that Congress evacuate Philadelphia. It was not the first time a messenger had interrupted Hancock ...
( Category: American Revolution October 25,2023 )
pdf | | 2013-12-24 | Author:Orval Graves, FRC

( Category: American Revolution September 4,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Dan Kilgore; James E. Crisp

( Category: American Revolution August 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-13 | Author:Thomas Jefferson [Jefferson, Thomas]

* * * APPENDIX TO THE MEMOIR NOTE A LETTER TO JOHN SAUNDERSON, ESQ. Monticello, August 31, 1820 SIR, Your letter of the 19th was received in due time, and ...
( Category: American Revolution July 24,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-06-15 | Author:Edmund S. Morgan [Morgan, Edmund S.]

As to my situation here nothing can be more agreeable, especially as I hope for less embarrasment from the new minister. A general respect paid me by the learned, a ...
( Category: American Revolution June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-18 | Author:John Knight

AFTER the destruction of Major Patrick Ferguson’s entire force at Kings Mountain, the sparsely settled Carolina backcountry fell under the control of patriot irregulars. Cornwallis ordered Tarleton to abandon his ...
( Category: American Revolution May 29,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-02-21 | Author:Richard Middleton

15. Like George III, Cornwallis held regular receptions for local dignitaries. By now his large paunch had become a regular feature of cartoons about him. Here he is seen receiving ...
( Category: American Revolution May 29,2023 )
pdf | | | Author:George Washington

( Category: American Revolution May 4,2023 )
pdf | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Lee

( Category: American Revolution May 4,2023 )
epub | | | Author:John B. Boles

Washington and Adams had annually delivered what we today call a State of the Union address to Congress. Because Jefferson knew he had few oratorical skills and felt the practice ...
( Category: American Revolution April 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:James J. Gigantino II [Gigantino, James J. II]

Livingston’s strong advocacy for more executive authority in resolving the state’s currency crisis was driven in part by an exponential increase in the London Trade. Border cities like Elizabethtown and ...
( Category: American Revolution March 5,2023 )