epub |eng | 2017-06-30 | Author:George H. Smith

As I explained in an earlier chapter, a design to establish despotism was the bright line in Radical Whig ideology that separated the right of resistance from the right of ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-02 | Author:Robert M. Dunkerly

epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Chris McNab

Often called “the American Cannae” and “the most perfect battle ever fought in the Americas,” Cowpens was one of the decisive battles of the war. Patriot commander Daniel Morgan carefully ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Richard M. Ketchum [Ketchum, Richard M.]

It is difficult to imagine anyone who could have been spared less easily by the Provincial Congress and Committee of Safety than Joseph Warren, but Warren operated on the theory ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Willard Sterne Randall [Willard Sterne Randall]

If pride of character be of worth at any time, it is when it disarms the efforts of malice. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1781 On the last day of May 1781, shortly ...

epub |eng | | Author:Thomas S. Kidd

Whitefield longed to return to America, but following up his work in Scotland seemed more pressing. God had wrought a great renewal in the wake of his visit; exuberant Scottish ...

epub |eng | | Author:Claudio Saunt

CHAPTER SEVEN An Invasion of Malefactors: Osage Country Though Joseph Orieta commanded Arkansas Post in the name of the Most Serene and Potent Prince, Charles III, king of Spain and ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-04 | Author:Steve Wiegand

Who won? The miraculous emergence of the United States as a nation, from a war won over a formidable foe and against long odds, was a significant victory for millions ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Carol Berkin

CHAPTER SIX “A JOURNEY A CROSSE YE WILDERNESS” Loyalist Women in Exile On September 1, 1774, Esther Quincy Sewall looked through her window in horror at the mob gathering outside ...

epub |eng | 1998-03-20 | Author:Daniel W. Barefoot

After his overwhelming victory at Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, 1780, Cornwallis began to formulate plans to invade North Carolina, the one state that stood in the path of ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-29 | Author:David Head

While Washington was writing to Boudinot, Jones, and Hamilton, he received more unpleasant news. A new anonymous publication had appeared in camp, demonstrating that Monday’s letter could not have come ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-12 | Author:Kate Elizabeth Brown

The Federal Magistracy and the Law of the Land In ways familiar to us, Hamilton helped to secure foreign investment in the United States using a set of preferred legal ...

epub |eng | 1987-03-19 | Author:Richard Beeman & Stephen Botein & Edward C. Carter II

Slavery and the Constitutional Convention Making a Covenant with Death PAUL FINKELMAN For the nineteenth-century abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, the Constitution was the result of a terrible bargain between freedom ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-07 | Author:Edmund S. Morgan

epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Robert Harvey [HARVEY, ROBERT]

15 The Trap Other things being equal, Howe’s capture of the American capital should have signalled the beginning of the end. In every engagement but one the Americans had been ...