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Author : Thomas Willing Balch
Release : 1904
Genre : Boston (Mass.)
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Book Synopsis The English Ancestors of the Shippen Family and Edward Shippen of Philadelphia by : Thomas Willing Balch
Download or read book The English Ancestors of the Shippen Family and Edward Shippen of Philadelphia written by Thomas Willing Balch. This book was released on 1904. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Case
Release : 2012-07-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Treacherous Beauty by : Stephen Case
Download or read book Treacherous Beauty written by Stephen Case. This book was released on 2012-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war’s most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging between England and its rebellious colonists, Peggy befriended a suave British officer and then married a crippled revolutionary general twice her age. She brought the two men together in a treasonous plot that nearly turned George Washington into a prisoner and changed the course of the war. Peggy Shippen was Mrs. Benedict Arnold. After the conspiracy was exposed, Peggy managed to convince powerful men like Washington and Alexander Hamilton of her innocence. The Founding Fathers were handicapped by the common view that women lacked the sophistication for politics or warfare, much less treason. And Peggy took full advantage. Peggy was to the American Revolution what the fictional Scarlett O’Hara was to the Civil War: a woman whose survival skills trumped all other values. Had she been a man, she might have been arrested, tried, and executed. And she might have become famous. Instead, her role was minimized and she was allowed to recede into the background—with a generous British pension in hand. In Treacherous Beauty, Mark Jacob and Stephen H. Case tell the true story of Peggy Shippen, a driving force in a conspiracy that came within an eyelash of dooming the American democracy.
Author : Thomas Willing BALCH
Release : 1904
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Book Synopsis The English Ancestors of the Shippen Family and Edward Shippen of Philadelphia ... Reprinted from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, October, 1904 by : Thomas Willing BALCH
Download or read book The English Ancestors of the Shippen Family and Edward Shippen of Philadelphia ... Reprinted from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, October, 1904 written by Thomas Willing BALCH. This book was released on 1904. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Release : 2014-03-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Defiant Brides by : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Download or read book Defiant Brides written by Nancy Rubin Stuart. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating true story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defied their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold—“an effortless read and a fresh perspective on the American Revolution” (Shelf Awareness). When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune, but financial debts and political intrigues prompted her to conspire with her treasonous husband against George Washington and the American Revolution. In spite of her commendable efforts to rehabilitate her husband’s name, Peggy Shippen continues to be remembered as a traitor bride. Peggy’s patriotic counterpart was Lucy Flucker, the spirited and voluptuous brunette, who in 1774 defied her wealthy Tory parents by marrying a poor Boston bookbinder simply for love. When her husband, Henry Knox, later became a famous general in the American Revolutionary War, Lucy faithfully followed him through Washington’s army camps where she birthed and lost babies, befriended Martha Washington, was praised for her social skills, and secured her legacy as an admired patriot wife. And yet, as esteemed biographer Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals, a closer look at the lives of both spirited women reveals that neither was simply a “traitor” or “patriot.” In Defiant Brides, the first dual biography of both Peggy Shippen Arnold and Lucy Flucker Knox, Stuart has crafted a rich portrait of two rebellious women who defied expectations and struggled—publicly and privately—in a volatile political moment in early America. Drawing from never-before-published correspondence, Stuart traces the evolution of these women from passionate teenage brides to mature matrons, bringing both women from the sidelines of history to its vital center. Readers will be enthralled by Stuart’s dramatic account of the epic lives of these defiant brides, which begin with romance, are complicated by politics, and involve spies, disappointments, heroic deeds, tragedies, and personal triumphs.
Author : Thomas Willing Balch
Release : 1904
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Book Synopsis The English ancestors of the Shippen family and Edward Shippen of Philadelphia by : Thomas Willing Balch
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