epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Stephen Brumwell [Brumwell, Stephen]

* * * Inclined to downplay fears for his own safety, Washington remained alive to the possibility that the British might yet take advantage of the ice to launch further ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Jeanne E. Abrams

Abigail Adams became the second First Lady of the United States on February 8, 1797, when, at the age of sixty-one, John Adams was formally elected president, although he did ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Ron Chernow [Chernow, Ron]

CHAPTER 28 –– Beat the Devil Once a breezy, fun-loving young man, Max Warburg at sixty-six was far more somber and introspective. In his Kösterberg studio, which resembled an Italian ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Andrew Carroll

Such a course of action does not mean that he should be led by any silly sentimentality in taking up the duty that faces him in the present hour. It ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-03 | Author:Craig Shirley

Chapter 10 Off to War THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775‒1783 “I shall be ready to receive the misled with tenderness and mercy.” George Washington returned to Mount Vernon from Fredericksburg on ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Daniel Mark Epstein

This letter must have put the fear of God in Joseph Galloway and his friend the governor of New Jersey, arriving when it did, only days before the carnage at ...

epub |eng | | Author:Helen Rappaport

The atmosphere was ominous. There wasn’t a tram in sight and hardly any izvozchiki and the shutters on the shops were fastened tight; ‘in front of the Gostinny Dvor [indoor ...

epub |eng | | Author:John A. Nagy

Eleven DECEPTION BATTLE PLAN: THE OBJECTIVE At the beginning of 1781 the war was not going well for the Americans. In the south, Charles Town (now known as Charleston), South ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:John McCain

PFC Guy Louis Gabaldon poses with a Japanese family he saved from mass suicide on the island of Saipan. CHAPTER EIGHT Lone Wolf Guy Gabaldon, alone and cave by cave, ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2002-03-04 | 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 ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 1790-01-01 | Author:Benjamin Franklin [Franklin, Benjamin]

Chief Events in Franklin's Life * Ending, as it does, with the year 1757, the autobiography leaves important facts un-recorded. It has seemed advisable, therefore, to detail the chief events ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jon Lee Anderson [Anderson, Jon Lee]

IV A great many changes had occurred in Cuba in Che’s absence. Fidel now had more political power, but the atmosphere was tenser and more polarized than ever. The agrarian ...

epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Franklin

* * * XI INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS I began now to turn my thoughts a little to public affairs, beginning, however, with small matters. The city watch was one ...

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 ...