Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
Chaplains of the Revolutionary War
Black Robed American Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
“There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight.” With those words, the Rev. John Muhlenberg stepped from his pulpit, removed his clerical robe—revealing the uniform of a Colonial officer—and marched off to war. Many of the ministers who became chaplains in the...
It Happened in the Revolutionary War
Stories of Events and People that Shaped American History
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
From the never-ending controversy over the Boston Massacre to the world’s first working (sort of) submarine, It Happened in the Revolutionary War looks at intriguing people and episodes that shaped the course of the war.
Meet Banistre Tarlton, a ruthless British commander who showed no mercy,...
Abigail Adams
A Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In this book, Edith B. Gelles asserts that Abigail Adams' vivid, insightful letters are "the best account that exists from the pre to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman's life and world." Adams' spontaneous, witty letters serve dual purposes for the modern reader: it provides...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Continental Congress and General Washington mistakenly inflated the importance of New York City to the cause of the revolution. After racing to beat the British to New York, Washington...
by William Heath
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
First published in 1798, this Revolutionary War memoir is one of the few ever written by a senior Continental Army commander. It provides a unique glimpse into the administrative operations and inner workings of the army during the American Revolution. Major General William Heath offers rare insights...
George Washington at “Head Quarters, Dobbs Ferry”
July 4 to August 19, 1781
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Gen. George Washington faced a myriad of obstacles in the summer of 1781. In George Washington at Head Quarters, Dobbs Ferry, author and historian Mary Sudman Donovan explores this crucial period during the American Revolutionary War by chronicling his activities. In July, he moved a large contingent...
by William W. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
**This book documents the participation of both free blacks and slaves during the Civil War, as well as a background of African American participation in the Revolution and War of 1812. **
From the preface:
"Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference...
Enduring Battle
American Soldiers in Three Wars, 1776-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldier's instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the army's insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harm's way. Enduring Battle looks beyond advances in weaponry to examine changes in warfare at the very personal level. Drawing...
Don Troiani's Campaign to Saratoga - 1777
The Turning Point of the Revolutionary War in Paintings, Artifacts, and Historical Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
The Battles of Saratoga are cited as the turning point in the Revolutionary War. Beginning when the armies prepared to face off in June 1777 through the surrender of the British Army in October, the battles of the Northern Campaign were significant to the outcome of the War and the fight for independence....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Coastal fortifications in the United States developed from the colonial practice of building temporary structures to a system designed to be permanent and enduring. Coastal fortifications...
Washington
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical.
Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president...
George Washington's Secret Spy War
The Making of America's First Spymaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
George Washington was America’s first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.
George Washington’s Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its...
Light-Horse Harry Lee
The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero - The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee's Father
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
"Light-Horse Harry blazes across the pages of Ryan Cole's narrative like a meteor—and his final crash is as destructive. Cole tells his story with care, sympathy, and where necessary, sternness. This book is a great, and sometimes harrowing read." —Richard Brookhiser, senior editor at National...