The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins
Author : Christopher Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1864
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1864
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Hawkins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2022-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752584858
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Containing Details of His Captivity, a First and Second Time on the High Seas, in the Revolutionary War, by the British, and His Consequent Sufferings, and escape from the Jersey Prison Ship, then lying in the harbour of New York, by swimming.
Author : Christopher Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category :
ISBN : 9783337749897
Author : Christopher Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN :
Hawkins was captured from a privateer ship and served as a prisoner-of-war during the Revolutionary War.
Author : Jon Couch
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 1467060429
Author : Christopher HAWKINS (of North Providence, R.I.)
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1864
Category :
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Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521762359
This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.
Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0812202023
Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought. In Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important contributions of sailors to the resistance movement against Great Britain and their experiences during the Revolutionary War, Gilje demonstrates that, while sailors recognized the ideals of the Revolution, their idea of liberty was far more individual in nature—often expressed through hard drinking and womanizing or joining a ship of their choice. Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.
Author : Agnes C. Doyle
Publisher : Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 1906
Category : History
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Author : Ann M. Becker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1793630704
In Smallpox in Washington's Army: Disease, War and Society during the Revolutionary War , the author argues that smallpox played an integral role in military affairs for both the British and Continental armies, and impacted soldiers and civilians throughout the War for American Independence. Due to the Royal army’s policy of troop inoculation and because many British soldiers were already immune to the variola virus, the American army was initially at a disadvantage. Most American colonists were highly susceptible to this dreaded disease, and its presence was greatly feared. General George Washington was keenly aware of this disadvantage and, despite his own doubts, embarked on a policy of inoculation to protect his troops. Use of this controversial, innovative, and effective medical procedure leveled the playing field within the armies. However, by 1777, smallpox spread throughout America as soldiers interacted with civilian populations. Once military action moved south, American and British auxiliary troops and the enslaved Southern population all succumbed to the disease, creating a disorderly, dangerous situation as the war ends. Washington’s implementation of isolation policies as well as mass troop inoculation removed the threat of epidemic smallpox and ultimately protected American soldiers and civilians from the dangers of this much feared disease.