Beaumarchais and the American Revolution

Beaumarchais and the American Revolution
Author: Brian N. Morton
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780739104682

Based on archival research in Europe and the United States, this authoritative study tells the fascinating story of Beaumarchais's role in the American War of Independence as an owner and outfitter of ships and as an arms merchant. It chronicles his dealings with Louis XVI, Vergennes, Benjamin Franklin, and the American Continental Congress and recounts his family's struggle to receive payment for the weapons and materials sent to the American colonists.

The Peasant Prince

The Peasant Prince
Author: Alex Storozynski
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0312388020

Follows the life of the Polish aristocrat who believed in freedom, fought in the American Revolution, and was appointed chief of the Engineering Corps of the Northern army.

Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia

Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia
Author: Harvey H. Jackson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820325422

Lachlan McIntosh (1728-1806) was a prominent Georgia planter, patriarch of his Highland Scots clan in America, and the ranking general from Georgia in the Continental army. Often, however, he is known simply as the man who, in a duel, mortally wounded Button Gwinnett, one of Georgia's signers of the Declaration of Independence. This biography fleshes out McIntosh considerably and, just as important, uses his life as a springboard for discussing the rapidly shifting political, social, and economic forces at work during a crucial period of Georgia's history.