epub |eng | 1997-03-31 | Author:Richard N. Rosenfeld

Sunday, July 5, 1789. Today, Vice President John Adams writes Benjamin Rush, You say you “abhor all titles.” … There is no person and no Society to whom Forms and ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-23 | Author:Henry Wiencek

epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Alan Dershowitz

PUBLIUS. FEDERALIST NO. 44 RESTRICTIONS ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE SEVERAL STATES FROM THE NEW YORK PACKET FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1788 JAMES MADISON To the People of the State of ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Barbara Clark Smith

Modern readers may squirm at the dialect and wonder at some eighteenth-century meanings (“Jack he trash, he trash”).59 Still, it is clear that the author of “The Farmer Returning” expected ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Hugh Bicheno [Hugh Bicheno and Richard Holmes]

Although the protest came close to violence, once the commissariat provided rations it subsided, although the ease with which this was accomplished confirmed the soldiers’ suspicions that they were being ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Mark Church [Church, Mark]

✽✽✽ General Gage’s clerk shows the Midwest battalion commander into the general’s office. The battalion commander salutes the general. “At ease. Have a seat.” Gage indicates the chair opposite his ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-26 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Book III Working Together and Apart Six Rendezvous in Philadelphia WITH CIVIC BOOSTERS INTENT on turning Philadelphia into the commercial, financial, and perhaps political capital of the newly independent states, ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Jonathan Horn

I. The academy would soon become Washington College and eventually Washington and Lee University. CHAPTER ELEVEN Washington Sinks The pleas to return to public life never ceased. Friends dangled every ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-04 | Author:Joseph Plumb Martin [Martin, Joseph Plumb]

Chapter VI. Campaign of 1780 Table of Contents The soldier defending his country's rights, Is griev'd when that country his services slights; But when he remonstrates and finds no relief, ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Wim Klooster

Napoleon’s Intervention The first fissures in the imperial construction indeed appeared as a consequence of events an ocean away. In 1807, Napoleon, now emperor of France and master of the ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Stephen Brumwell [Brumwell, Stephen]

8 Victory or Death Lacking the boats he needed to ferry his troops across the Delaware River and continue hounding Washington’s army, on December 14, 1776, William Howe called a ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Terry M. Mays

REGULATION, WAR OF THE See REGULATORS. REGULATIONS FOR THE ORDER AND DISCIPLINE OF THE TROOPS OF THE UNITED STATES The title of the drill book written for the Continental Army ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Matthew Lockwood

8 THE BIRTH OF BRITISH INDIA Calcutta, you know is on the Hooghly, a branch of the Ganges, and as you enter Garden-reach which extends about nine miles below the ...

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, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Lynne Cheney [Cheney, Lynne]

Chapter 13 THE REVOLUTION OF 1800 REPUBLICANS CLAIMED that Jefferson’s victory signified a revolution, by which they meant that the Federalists had been turned out and their policies rejected, but ...