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Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Author : Royal Ralph Hinman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385128145
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Author : Robert K. Wright
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.
Author : R r. 1785-1868 Hinman
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781293409978
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Connecticut
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Author : Connecticut
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0806165995
When the Revolutionary War began, Congress established a national army and appointed George Washington its commander in chief. Congress then took it upon itself to choose numerous subordinate generals to lead the army’s various departments, divisions, and brigades. How this worked out in the end is well known. Less familiar, however, is how well Congress’s choices worked out along the way. Although historians have examined many of Washington’s subordinates, Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals is the first book to look at these men in a collective, integrated manner. A thoroughgoing study of the Revolutionary War careers of the Continental Army’s generals—their experience, performance, and relationships with Washington and the Continental Congress—this book provides an overview of the politics of command, both within and outside the army, and a unique perspective on how it affected Washington’s prosecution of the war. It is impossible to understand the outcome of the War for Independence without first examining America’s military leadership, author Stephen R. Taaffe contends. His description of Washington’s generals—who they were, how they received their commissions, and how they performed—goes a long way toward explaining how these American officers, who were short on experience and military genius, prevailed over their professional British counterparts. Following these men through the war’s most important battles and campaigns as well as its biggest controversies, such as the Conway Cabal and the Newburgh Conspiracy, Taaffe weaves a narrative in the grand tradition of military history. Against this backdrop, his depiction of the complexities and particulars of character and politics of military command provides a new understanding of George Washington, the War for Independence, and the U.S. military’s earliest beginnings. A unique combination of biography and institutional history shot through with political analysis, this book is a thoughtful, deeply researched, and an eminently readable contribution to the literature of the Revolution.
Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1877
Category : America
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Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 1877
Category : America
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Author : Connecticut
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Law
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Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0786727047
Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons -- more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed -- those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence -- and how much we have forgotten.