epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Ray Raphael [Raphael, Ray]

Undoubtedly, Washington was just as displeased with the encounter. He was no stranger to seeking advice, but not in a venue such as this. On countless occasions during the Revolution ...

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Theodore Draper

12 “The very foundations of this Kingdom are sinking” • 1 • THE NEWS FROM AMERICA plunged British politics into turmoil. Never before had the British establishment been so obsessed ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

Chapter 16 Spreading the News As uncertain and confused as things were on the rebel side in the first few weeks after April 19, rebel leaders recognized the importance of ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Charles Royster [Royster, Charles]

When members of the Dismal Swamp Company met in Richmond, with Reuben Lindsay attending in place of Dr. Thomas Walker, Walker was entering his seventies. His shoulders were rounded, his ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Tim McGrath

To fight against the British and win our liberty. We shipped with Captain Whipple who never knew a fear, The Captain of the Providence, the Yankee privateer.40 On it went ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward Larson

* * * BOOK III From Mount Vernon to New York 1788–1789 * * * Federalist cartoon from June 1788, portraying the states ratifying the Constitution as rising columns in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Walter L. Hixson [Hixson, Walter L.]

The Killing Fields of California Preceding the dispossession of the Plains tribes was a genocidal campaign against of the California Indians. In a recent study, Benjamin Madley found “evidence of ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:A. J. Langguth [Langguth, A. J.]

Thomas Jefferson in 1768 PRIVATE COLLECTION Jefferson 1775–76 EARLY IN the winter of 1776, John Adams read a new pamphlet with a provocative title. He sent a copy to Abigail ...

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 ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-06 | Author:Albert Jay Nock [Jay Nock, Albert]

II Alexander Hamilton came to the colonies at the age of sixteen, from his home in the West Indies, dissatisfied with the prospect of spending his days in “the grovelling ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Raphael, Ray [Raphael, Ray]

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A GLOBAL WAR The French navy and army that enabled the victory at Yorktown were no strangers to their British adversaries. The American Revolution marked the fifth ...

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. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:McClanahan, Brion [McClanahan, Brion]

While Lee, Jefferson, and Madison defended so-called congressional-executive agreements in relation to commerce alone, no member of the founding generation supported unilateral executive agreements, which they would have regarded as ...