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Forgotten Patriots

2008 History
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Release : 2008
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Book Synopsis Forgotten Patriots by : Eric Grundset

Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Eric Grundset. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By offering a documented listing of names of African Americans and Native Americans who supported the cause of the American Revolution, we hope to inspire the interest of descendents in the efforts of their ancestors and in the work of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Forgotten Patriots

2008-11-11 History
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Release : 2008-11-11
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Book Synopsis Forgotten Patriots by : Edwin G. Burrows

Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Edwin G. Burrows. This book was released on 2008-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons -- more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed -- those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence -- and how much we have forgotten.

Black Patriots and Loyalists

2012-04-20 History
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Release : 2012-04-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Black Patriots and Loyalists by : Alan Gilbert

Download or read book Black Patriots and Loyalists written by Alan Gilbert. This book was released on 2012-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking history, Gilbert illuminates how the fight for abolition and equality - not just for the independence of the few but for the freedom and self-government of the many - has been central to the American story from its inception."--Pub. desc.

I Was a Teenager in the American Revolution

2006-04-13 History
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Release : 2006-04-13
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis I Was a Teenager in the American Revolution by : Elizabeth Ryan Metz

Download or read book I Was a Teenager in the American Revolution written by Elizabeth Ryan Metz. This book was released on 2006-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenagers were critical to the American victory in the Revolutionary War. Over half of the colonial population was under the age of 16. A draft of all boys between the ages of 16 and 19 was enacted to fill the ranks of the Continental Army, leaving their sisters to fill their places at home. These circumstances meant that teenagers played an essential role not only in combat but also on the home front. Israel Trask joined the militia at the age of 10; by the time he turned 12 he was serving at sea. Abigail Foote, a 15-year-old from Connecticut, wove cloth, sewed clothes, weeded the garden and made cheese, providing much needed clothing and food. Henry Yeager, 13, barely escaped hanging for his army role as drummer. Dicey Langston, 16 when the war began, risked her life to pass loyalist information to the Patriots. Future president Andrew Jackson was only 14 when he was captured and sent to jail at Camden. This book relates the Revolutionary War experiences of 23 teenagers. Drawing on firsthand accounts of young Americans from Massachusetts to South Carolina and from many different backgrounds--wealthy and poor, slave and free, Tory and Patriot--it provides a fascinating, varied look at America's fight for independence and teenagers' role in this struggle for liberty. Excerpts from journals and memoirs make up the body of the text. Appendices provide a chronology of events and a glossary of sailing terms.

Profiles of Patriots: a Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and Their Descendants

2013-08-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2013-08-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Profiles of Patriots: a Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and Their Descendants by : Moira Ann Jacobs

Download or read book Profiles of Patriots: a Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and Their Descendants written by Moira Ann Jacobs. This book was released on 2013-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants is a compilation of 39 biographies of American Revolutionary War patriots and includes an introduction and brief history of the El Palo Alto Chapter of the DAR and its founders. This book is a commemorative work celebrating the Chapters 100th Anniversary of its founding. Each patriot biography summarizes the patriots service record in the War of Independence as well as key biographical information. In addition, each author of these biographies is a direct descendant of the patriot and provides a summary of their lineage. This book provides a unique look into the history of these rank and file soldiers, officers and other patriots who contributed to the formation of our country as well as insights into their descendants migrations over many generations.

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