The American Revolution: 1745 - 1784

The American Revolution: 1745 - 1784
Author: George Washington
Publisher: Powerthink Publishing
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781936472031

Perhaps no other revolt against the mother country, giving birth to a land, parallels the American Revolution. For, from this revolution on a land separated by thousands of miles and an ocean, new ideas and identities were born. These ideas have sparked the call of freedom around the world as the American Revolution has inspired self-determination seekers for over two hundred years. We hear their voices as we read their words, untainted by historical speculation of scholars and promoters of historical theories. Their words and actions set the stage for the making of the American government, and the creation of the single most important documents offering freedom to its citizens ever put by men into words on paper; the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America. Included Works: (over 80 accounts) Two Sieges of Louisbourg by Bradley Washington's Expedition to the Ohio by Washington Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union by Franklin Braddock's Defeat by Washington Deportation of the Acadians of Nova Scotia by Bradley Wolfe Defeats Montcalm at Quebec by Captain Knox In Opposition to Writs of Assistance by Otis Stamp Act and its Repeal by Lechy Pitt's Protest Against the Stamp Act by Pitt Declaration of Rights by Delegates from Nine Colonies Repeal of the Stamp Act by Secretary Conway Brant to Lord Germaine by Brant Examination Before the House of Commons by Franklin Daniel Boone Migrates to Kentucky Spanish Settle in California by Royce An Eye-witness Describes the Boston Massacre by Tudor Indentured "White Slaves" in the Colonies by Eddis Boston Tea Party by Hutchinson First Continental Congress by Adams Logan to Lord Dunmore by Logan Patrick Henry's Call to Arms by Wirt "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Speech by Henry Washington's Appointment as Commander-in-chief by Irving Washington Speech of Acceptance by Washington Battle of Lexington Battle of Concord by The Reverend Emerson Farewell to Mrs. Washington Washington at Cambridge Battle of Bunker Hill Paul Revere Tells of His Midnight Ride by Revere Dramatic Capture of Ticonderoga by Allen Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Washington's Capture of Boston by Washington Writing of The Declaration of Independence by Jefferson Jefferson's Original Draft of The Declaration by Jefferson Declaration of Independence by Jefferson Why Jefferson Was Chosen To Write The Declaration by Adams A Call For Independence by Paine Siege and Capture of Boston by Washington Evacuation of New York by General Clinton Battle of White Plains by General Heath Washington, Discouraged, Appeals to Congress by Washington Battles of Trenton and Princeton by General Washington Samuel Adams on American Independence by Adams Battles of Trenton and Princeton by Lecky Defeat and Surrender of Burgoyne Lafayette in the American Revolution Washington at Valley Forge by Waldo Letters of Lafayette and Washington France Recognizes American Independence by Franklin Warning Against Conciliation by Henry Capture of Vincennes by Clark Wayne Surprises and Storms Stony Point by Washington Capture of the Serapis by the Bon Homme Richard Arnold's Treason by Washington and Greene Andre, Facing Execution, Writes to Washington Execution of Andre by General Heath Last Days of the Revolution by Madison Washington's Services in the War by Lecky Battle of Yorktown by General Cornwallis Washington Reports the Yorktown Surrender by Washington Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown Explaining the Treaty of Paris by Adams, Franklin, Jay and Laurens Meaning of American Democracy by Jean and de Chastellux Washington Resigns His Commission To Congress by Rev. Gordon Washington Bids His Army Farewell by Washington Treaty of Paris Negotiations

American Revolution, 1754-1784

American Revolution, 1754-1784
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015
Genre: Battles
ISBN: 9781489607157

Recounts the struggle of the young American nation against the British Empire andthe events leading up to the Declaration of Independence.

The Revolutionary War (War of American Independence)

The Revolutionary War (War of American Independence)
Author: U. S. Government
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973129257

This authoritative timeline of the American Revolution includes the text of numerous original documents of the era, providing extraordinary insight into the thoughts and plans of key players in the drama, including General George Washington. Sample of Contents (incomplete): Washington to Robert Stewart, William Crawford, Francis Dandridge, Robert Cary; Essex County Resolutions; Letter to His Most Excellent Majesty; Resolutions of Merchants; Letter from a Principal House in England; Glorious News; Virginia House of Burgesses; Boston Merchants; To the Merchants and Traders of Philadelphia; Violators of the Non-Importation Agreement; Washington to Mason; Mason Replies; Advertisement; The Minions of Tyranny; The Times; Massacre at Boston; Female Patriot; To the Freemen; Boston Tea Party; Proceedings of the Committee of Correspondence; In Times of Public Danger; Fixed Plan to Bring the Most Humiliating Bondage; Earl of Chatham Speech; Galloway's Speech to Continental Congress; Declaration of Rights and Grievances; Continental Association; First Shots of War; Washington to Robert Mackenzie; Continental Congress to General Gage; General Gage to Peyton Randolph; British Officer Describes Conditions in Boston; British Officer at Lexington and Concord; Depositions Concerning the Fights at Lexington and Concord; Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms; Washington Accepts Appointment as Commander of Continental Army; Washington to New York Legislature; General Washington Deals with Day-to-Day Issues in the Continental Army; Results of Battle of Long Island; Defending Manhattan Island; Washington Assesses the Strategic Situation 1777; Washington Describes Battle at Brandywine Creek; Washington Describes Continental Army at Valley Forge, Winter 1777-1778; The French Alliance; Washington Opposes a Franco-American Attack on Canada; Correspondence Between Washington and John Jay; Washington Complains That Congress Needs Greater Power to Conduct War; Two Continental Congress Addresses to the Six Nations; Brothers, Cayugas, Senecas, Tuscaroras, Mohawks!; An Address of the Congress to the Inhabitants of the United States of America, May 8, 1778; Revolutionary War: The Home Front; Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, October 2, 1782; Definitive Articles of the Peace of Paris, January 14, 1784; By the United States in Congress Assembled, A Proclamation, January 14, 1784; Washington's Circular Letter of Farewell to the Army, June 8, 1783

The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818

The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818
Author: Mary C. Gillett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1981
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

Appendices include laws and legislation concerning the Army Medical Department. Maps include those of territories and frontiers and Continental Army hospital locations. Illustrations are chiefly portraits.

Edward Bancroft

Edward Bancroft
Author: Thomas J. Schaeper
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300118422

Looks at the life of the American scientist and man of letters who led a secret life in Great Britain as British agent working against both the American colonies and the French during the Revolutionary War.

American Sovereigns

American Sovereigns
Author: Christian G. Fritz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2007-10-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139467174

American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.