The American Revolution
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The American Revolution: A Concise History
By Robert J. Allison, Robert AllisonWhen he saw officers on the burning Bonhomme Richard lowering the flag, Captain Pearson of the Serapis asked if they surrendered. Jones replied, “I have not yet begun to fight!” Jones instead forced Pearson to surrender, crowded his own ...
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The American Revolution: Fighting for Independence
By Amy B. Rogers, John DavenportMeeting with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Rutledge in New York, Howe asked them to convey his terms for America's surrender to Congress. The Americans refused. They stated that the British needed to go home and give the ...
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The American Revolution: Changing Perspectives
By Carol BerkinThe great names include Milton, Harrington, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke. But while the American colonists respected these writers, they did not draw from them directly. Roper's theory holds up well so far, because as Caroline ...
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The American Revolution
By David F. BurgA fire in Whitehall, a section at the southern tip of Manhattan, apparently set by incendiaries, distracted the British soldiers and sailors, who were ordered by Howe to help stanch the flames, which caused widespread destruction.
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The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
By Robert J. AllisonOriginal edition has subtitle: a concise history.
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The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
By Robert J. AllisonRobert J. Allison. VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way into a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been translated into more than 40 different languages.
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The American Revolution: 1745 - 1784
By Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Daniel BooneWashington - Washington at Cambridge - Battle of Bunker Hill - Paul Revere Tells of His Midnight Ride by Revere - Dramatic Capture of Ticonderoga by Allen - Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence - Washington's Capture of Boston by ...
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The American Revolution
By Dee Ready, Jane Duden, Lora Polack OberleThis series explores and supports the standards under The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage, as required by the ...
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The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
By Robert J. Allison... Iliffe NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner NINETEENTH‐CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew THE NORMAN CONQUEST George Garnett NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green NORTHERN IRELAND Marc Mulholland NOTHING ...
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The American Revolution: Revised Edition
By Edward CountrymanExcept for a very few, its white people seemed to be united, not divided, for a number of very good reasons. The vast majority of them grew tobacco. Rich or poor, they governed their lives according to the fifteen-month cycle of intense ...
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The American Revolution: A Picture Sourcebook
By John GraftonThis book of over 400 illustrations is a vast pictorial sourcebook and informal history of the American Revolution.
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The American Revolution: Documents Decoded
By Neil GouldMercy Otis Warren: Poet and Propagandist (1774) INTRODUCTION In colonial America, the role of woman was defined by both custom and the exigencies of the “times that tried men's [and women's] souls.” The feminine ideal of, ...
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The American Revolution
By Enzo GeorgeG46 2015 973.3—d23 For Brown Bear Books Ltd: Editorial Director: Lindsey Lowe Managing Editor:Tim Cooke ... C=Center, B=Bottom, L=Left, R=Right Front Cover: FC All images Library of Congress All images © Library of Congress, except; 10, ...
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The American Revolution: A Student Companion
By Richard B BernsteinThe American Revolution: A Student Companion
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The American Revolution
By Michael WeberJohn Adams ( 1735-1826 ) John Adams was born in Braintree ( now Quincy ) , Massachusetts . He was a great , great grandson of the Pilgrims John and Priscilla Alden , and a second cousin of Samuel Adams . Adams's father , a farmer and ...
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The American Revolution: A Concise History
By Robert Allison“Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant,” Mason warned, and slavery would “bring the judgment of heaven on a Country.” Slavery itself weakened a society and depressed the value of free labor. Looking westward, he noted that the ...
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The American Revolution: New Nation as New Empire
By Neil L. YorkThe elder Adams, had he lived, would have taken no joy in Jackson's victory four years later, not simply because it kept his son from serving a second term, but because he worried that a nation that elevated Jackson to its highest ...
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The American Revolution
By Bruce Lancaster, John Harold PlumbWith the first light , Hamilton's guns began to thud out from the high Sackville bastions , but Clark's men still refused to follow precedent . Either unaware of or unimpressed by the theory that frontier troops cannot stand up against ...
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The American Revolution: A Brief History
By James Kirby Martin, Marla R MillerThe American Revolution: A Brief History
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The American Revolution: Volume 1,2
By John FiskeHis escort, Major Tallmadge, was a graduate of Yale College and a classmate of Nathan Hale, whom General Howe had hanged as a spy four years before. Tallmadge had begun to feel a warm interest in André, and as they rode their horses ...