epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terry Bouton [Bouton, Terry]

Ring Seven: The Delinquent Militia Under such circumstances, what could the state do? Preventing this array of resistance was no simple matter. In most places, state leaders could not call ...

epub |eng | 1964-03-14 | Author:Howard H. Peckham [Peckham, Howard H.]

VII British Regulars and American Militia Early in 1755 there arrived in Virginia Lieutenant Colonel Sir John St. Clair to serve as deputy quartermaster general to the regular and provincial ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Rod Gragg

In Virginia, the news from Boston arrived as the colony’s House of Burgesses was convening. Patriot leader Richard Henry Lee hastily assembled an impromptu caucus of like-minded legislators that included ...

epub |eng | | Author:Malcolm Gaskill [Gaskill, Malcolm]

America personified in an engraving of 1658. Note the old colonial canard of cannibalism, together with depictions of native cruelty—for example, the row of impaled heads. The verse suggests the ...

epub |eng | 2017-11-08 | Author:Jasper Danckaerts [Danckaerts, Jasper]

27th, Wednesday. We waited for him from an early hour, but it was nearly ten o'clock before we saw him. We went to his boat which was poor enough, very ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Daniel K. Richter

Everywhere, then, the lessons Native people drew from the carnage of the period between Metacom's War and the Yamasee War were the same. Direct military confrontation with European powers was ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Eliot A. Cohen

This post has been too much neglected However irksome the challenges for Burgoyne’s army may have looked, they were mere inconveniences compared with the predicament of the Americans at Ticonderoga ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:John M. Barry [Barry, John M.]

CHAPTER 21 Anne Hutchinson was a brilliant, bold, forceful, and self-confident woman. She came by her self-confidence naturally. Her grandfather was a friend of Erasmus, and her father was a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Corey Mead

As we have seen, in the late eighteenth century the glass armonica grew fashionable all throughout Europe. Still, no country embraced it with quite the same passion as Röllig’s and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Potter

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Catastrophe The Lord hath sayd to the destroying angel, It is sufficient, hold now thy hand; the mortality of your people is ceased abroad: and the hope of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dana S. Seetahal

THE INDICTMENT The indictment is preferred by the Director of Public Prosecutions4 (or the Attorney General5 in the Bahamas). The document is really the printed accusation of the crime or ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-29 | Author:Stephen Hawley Martin [Martin, Stephen Hawley]

Reverend Deodat Lawson Witnesses the Afflicted On Saturday, March 19, two days before Martha Corey was scheduled to take the witness stand to be examined, the Reverend Deodat Lawson arrived ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Ferling

See notes on Chapter 6 PART THREE FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN 7 WASHINGTON AND THE POLITICS OF INTRIGUE: TO THE END OF THE WAR Yorktown was the ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Smucker, Philip

By the fifth week in my historical fencing class, we moved on to a weapon that was efficient for killing, easier to handle, and served well, as one expert noted ...

epub |eng | | Author:Francis Parkman [Parkman, Francis]

CHAPTER X. 1713-1724. SEBASTIEN RALE. Boundary Disputes.--Outposts of Canada.--The Earlier and Later Jesuits.--Religion and Politics.--The Norridgewocks and their Missionary.--A Hollow Peace.--Disputed Land Claims.--Council at Georgetown.--Attitude of Rale.--Minister and Jesuit.--The Indians ...