Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
Author : Francis Josiah Hudleston
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1927
Category : United States
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Author : Francis Josiah Hudleston
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1927
Category : United States
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Author : Richard O'Connor
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792
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A biography of the English officer, member of Parliament, and playwright who was known as "Gentleman Johnny" and participated in several important campaigns of the Revolutionary War.
Author : Francis Josiah HUDLESTON
Publisher :
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1927
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Author : Daniel E. Harmon
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1438143982
A biography of the British general whose defeat at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 was a turning point in the war.
Author : John Burgoyne
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 1787
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Author : Rupert Furneaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780367650544
The Grand Strategy, the imaginative plan to divide the rebellious American colonies, ended in disaster. Originally published in 1971, from his study of all the correspondence that passed between the men involved, and by his visit to the campaign area, author Rupert Furneaux questions the long accepted view of where the blame lay.
Author : Richard M. Ketchum
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1466879521
Historian Richard M. Ketchum's Saratoga vividly details the turning point in America's Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skillfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution. A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Award, 1997
Author : John Thornton Posey
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0870139460
Revolutionary War general Thomas Posey (1750-1818) lived his life against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic periods in American history. Posey, who played a minor role in the actual War for Independence, went on to participate in the development and foundation of several states in the transappalachian West. His experiences on the late 18th- and early 19th-century American frontier were varied and in a certain sense extraordinary; he served as Indian agent in Illinois Territory; as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, as U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and as Governor of Indiana during its transition from territorial status to statehood. His biographer speculates on the contrasting influences of Thomas's ne'er-do-well father, Captain John Posey, and the family's close friend, General George Washington. Posey's progress is then followed as he raises his own family in the newly formed nation. Of particular interest is an appendix containing a detailed analysis of evidence available to support popular 29th-century speculation that Thomas Posey was, in fact, George Washington's illicit son.
Author : Francis Josiah Hudleston
Publisher :
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 25,67 MB
Release : 1939
Category : United States
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Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0300195249
Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power