Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
How the Irish Won the American Revolution
A New Look at the Forgotten Heroes of America's War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling country were from Ireland. By 1790, close to 500,000 Irish citizens had immigrated to America. They were was very active in the American Revolution, both...
Bugles, Boots, and Saddles
Exploits of the U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A history of America’s military on horseback.
For three thousand years, the horse soldier has played a key role in both war fighting and in peace keeping all over the world, not only as a highly mobile strike force in battle but also as an instrument of reconnaissance and occupation, exploration,...
Love of Freedom
Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
This significant historical book on a previously unexplored aspect of the Revolutionary War was produced by the Center of Military History, providing an important basic reference on the military history of the Revolution. The Continental Army details the basic military organization used during the...
Building the Land of Dreams
New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological...
by Christian M. McBurney
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Espionage played a vital role during the American Revolution in Rhode Island. The British and Americans each employed spies to discover the secrets, plans and positions of their enemy. Continental navy lieutenant John Trevett dressed as an ordinary sailor, grew out his beard and went from tavern to tavern...
by Courtney McInvale
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Bloody battlefields and raucous taverns in Connecticut served as the backdrop for pivotal figures and bold actions vital to the American Revolution. Nathan Hale is said to still conduct lessons in New London and East Haddam, and many suspect that George Washington occasionally visits the Shaw Mansion...
Foreign-Born American Patriots
Sixteen Volunteer Leaders in the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This book presents profiles of sixteen individuals born and raised in countries other than America who voluntarily joined the revolutionary cause. These men were writers, soldiers, merchants, sailors, guerilla fighters, pirates, financiers, and cavalry leaders. Each profile discusses the personal...
Common Sense
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution. Common Sense was signed "Written by an Englishman", and it became an immediate success. In relative proportion to the population of the colonies...
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
**Gordon S. Wood presents the final volume in his definitive three-volume edition of the writings of a great American Founder. **A powerful polemicist, insightful political theorist, and tireless diplomat, John Adams (1735–1826) was a vital and controversial figure during the early years of the...
The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens
The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backcountry was the center of the fight for independence, but backcountry devotion to the Patriot cause...
Tyrannicide
Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the midst of the American Revolution, thirty-four South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer and survived several...
Brandywine
A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Winner of the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond Book Award—“An impressive interpretation of the battle” (Arthur S. Lefkowitz, author of Benedict Arnold’s Army).
Long overshadowed by the stunning American victory at Saratoga, the complex British campaign that defeated George Washington’s...
The Road to Guilford Courthouse
The American Revolution in the Carolinas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the war.
"A tense, exciting historical account of a little known chapter of the Revolution,...