An exciting trip back in time to the American Revolution, "a reminder of what history can be when written by a master."--Publishers Weekly
Stone , " Brodhead's Raid on the Senecas , " 89 ; Clark , All Cloudless Glory , 37-40 ; John C. Fitzpatrick , ed . ... 11 ; Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley , Dr. John Mitchell : The Man Who Made the Map of North America ...
To implement the decree, Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie dispatched a diplomatic mission ordering the French to abandon the forts and leave Ohio. The man Dinwiddie picked to lead the mission was twenty- one- year- old George Washington.
“Mr. Clary delivers vivid and gritty accounts of the pivotal moments in Washington's military apprenticeship. . . . He shows how these episodes constituted crucial training for the ambitious but callow Washington, allowing him to test ...
Robert Dinwiddie to GW, May 15, 1754, GWP Founders Online. GW to Robert Dinwiddie, May 18, 1757, GWP Founders Online. Lengel, General George Washington, 34. GW to Robert Dinwiddie, May 29, 1754, GWP Founders Online.
Based largely on Washington’s personal papers, this engrossing book paints a vivid, factual portrait of a man to whom lore and legend so tenaciously cling. To Lengel, Washington was the imperfect commander.
Garly is really Patrick Garvey and Lewis is Lewis (or Louis) Lewis. Parke said he made acquaintance with a post rider for Congress, a young man who was a Loyalist and who only took the job to keep from being conscripted into military ...
A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focuses on his use of spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war. Reprint.
Viewing the political and military aspects of the campaign as inextricably entwined, this book offers a fresh perspective on Washington’s role in it.
The Washington portrayed here is not the gray-haired figure so familiar to many Americans but a vital, athletic man at the height of his powers.
James MacKay ( d . 1785 ) , believed to be a native of South Carolina , was commissioned ensign in the Independent Company of Foot of that province in 1737 and served in the War of Jenkins's Ear . On or about June 14 , 1754 , Captain ...