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Author | : Richard C. Wiggin |
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Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Lincoln (Mass.) |
ISBN | : 9780944856109 |
There was nothing extraordinary about these men; they were ordinary farmers, laborers, merchants, tradesmen, slaves, and former slaves, the cross-section of a typical eighteenth-century New England farming community. But when faced with the loss of their cherished liberties and long-standing tradition of self-government, they were swept up in an epic struggle against long odds. These are the forgotten men who fought the American Revolution. Meticulously researched, Embattled Farmers traces the footsteps of 252 individual men--all connected with the same community--who served as Patriot soldiers. Through repeated enlistments, they served at Lexington and Concord, at the Siege of Boston, and during the campaigns to Ticonderoga, Canada, New York, Saratoga, the Hudson Valley, The Jerseys, Valley Forge, and Yorktown. Despite family and community ties, four others remained loyal to the King, and fought against their neighbors and kinfolk. They lost everything they had, and lived the remainder of their lives in exile. Individual stories tell of under-age service, skirmishes and battles, guard duty, fatigue duty, capture by the enemy, smallpox, desertion, and hardships, as well as service by slaves, economic dislocation, and the practice of substitution. Collectively, their stories present a fascinating mosaic of a community at war. Told mostly from the perspective--and in some cases the actual words--of the men themselves, Embattled Farmers places the reader shoulder to shoulder with the men-at-arms. As minute men, militia, privateers, Continental soldiers--and Loyalist militia--as officers and foot-soldiers, the stories of these Lincoln men bring to life the human drama of the War for American Independence. The book's many hidden pearls will delight any armchair historian.
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 1228 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Campaign speeches |
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Divided into 2 volumes Part I and Part II.
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Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor |
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Total Pages | : 2010 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 1436 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Agricultural laws and legislation |
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Author | : Helen R. Haddad |
Publisher | : Levellers Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
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Genre | : Fiction |
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A window into the 1920s, this novel opens when young Josiah loses his parents and has to leave the city of Boston, moving to rural western Massachusetts. There, he struggles to adapt to life on his aunt and uncle’s farm and to adjust to a one-room school, where he meets Addy, who becomes a friend, and Alvin, the school bully. As his sense of belonging slowly grows, so does his realization that the Swift RiverValley, where he now lives, may be destroyed to create an enormous reservoir to supply water to Boston. The largely untold story of life in the towns flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir is presented as a backdrop to Josiah’s story, as is a picture of traditional New England farming through the seasons.
Author | : Douglas Cazaux Sackman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2005-02-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520238869 |
This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export--the orange. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry.
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Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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