mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Brian Kilmeade

It is no wonder that the Culper communications had proved so disappointing to General Washington in the spring of 1780. The difficulties of delivering the messages in a timely fashion ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:John Ferling

The Death of Montgomery by John Trumbull. General Richard Montgomery, commander of the American army that attacked Quebec on December 31, 1775, was killed in the engagement. One third of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Harlow Giles Unger

The Boston Massacre. Paul Revere’s engraving of the event, copied without permission from a drawing by Henry Pelham, the half-brother of portrait artist John Singleton Copley. Pelham threatened legal action ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-19 | Author:Robert H. Patton

Twenty-four-year-old William Bingham excelled at what he called “the art of uniting war and commerce.” The vast network of privateers he managed in the West Indies unsettled Congress with its ...

epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Jon Kukla [Kukla, Jon]

The publication in 1799 of Talleyrand’s National Institute lecture, Essai sur less Avantages a Tirer de Colonies Nouvelles dans Circonstances Présentes, testified not only to its merits but to its ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara W.]

X “A Successful Battle May Give Us America” IF THE FRENCH did not recognize the significance to themselves of what they were doing in aiding the rebels, neither did the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis [Ellis, Joseph J.]

ANTICIPATING JUST WHERE that work would occur was Washington’s primary dilemma. On August 14, two British deserters reported that the main British attack was aimed at Long Island. Another intelligence ...