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Author : John W. Jackson
Release : 1979
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis With the British Army in Philadelphia, 1777-1778 by : John W. Jackson
Download or read book With the British Army in Philadelphia, 1777-1778 written by John W. Jackson. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen R. Taaffe
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778 by : Stephen R. Taaffe
Download or read book The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778 written by Stephen R. Taaffe. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagingly recounts how this often underestimated Revolutionary War campaign became a critical turning point in the war that led to the ultimate victory of the Continental Army over the British forces.
Author : Michael W. Tracy, Ph.D.
Release : 2015
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis 266 Days by : Michael W. Tracy, Ph.D.
Download or read book 266 Days written by Michael W. Tracy, Ph.D. . This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though mostly forgotten, for nearly nine months in 1777 and 1778, British forces held the city of Philadelphia. With 266 Days: Eye-Witness Accounts of the British Occupation of Philadelphia, author Michael W. Tracy, Ph.D., hopes to fill this gap in the story of the war which shaped the American nation. Tracy combines accounts from the Pennsylvania Evening Post with excerpts from journal entries and personal letters from well-known figures (such as George Washington and Thomas Paine), citizens living in and around Philadelphia, and soldiers on the front lines, to give readers a "diary-like" account of the occupation. Tracy brings to life voices from the past to present a vivid story of life--on both sides of the conflict--during the occupation. As we read accounts not only of war, but also of everyday life, the story of the occupation becomes more than just another war story--it becomes a historical treasure.
Author : Aaron Sullivan
Release : 2019-03-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Disaffected by : Aaron Sullivan
Download or read book The Disaffected written by Aaron Sullivan. This book was released on 2019-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In 1777, the war came to Philadelphia when the city was taken and occupied by the British army. Aaron Sullivan explores the British occupation of Philadelphia, chronicling the experiences of a group of people who were pursued, pressured, and at times persecuted, not because they chose the wrong side of the Revolution but because they tried not to choose a side at all. For these people, the war was neither a glorious cause to be won nor an unnatural rebellion to be suppressed, but a dangerous and costly calamity to be navigated with care. Both the Patriots and the British referred to this group as "the disaffected," perceiving correctly that their defining feature was less loyalty to than a lack of support for either side in the dispute, and denounced them as opportunistic, apathetic, or even treasonous. Sullivan shows how Revolutionary authorities embraced desperate measures in their quest to secure their own legitimacy, suppressing speech, controlling commerce, and mandating military service. In 1778, without the Patriots firing a shot, the king's army abandoned Philadelphia and the perceived threat from neutrals began to decline—as did the coercive and intolerant practices of the Revolutionary regime. By highlighting the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the conflict, The Disaffected reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.
Author : Gerald J. Kauffman
Release : 2011-01-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The British Invasion of Delaware, Aug-Sep 1777 by : Gerald J. Kauffman
Download or read book The British Invasion of Delaware, Aug-Sep 1777 written by Gerald J. Kauffman. This book was released on 2011-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American War for Independence in Augustand September, 1777, the British invaded Delaware aspart of an end-run campaign to defeat GeorgeWashington and the Americans and capture the capitalat Philadelphia. For a few short weeks the hills andstreams in and around Newark and Iron Hill and at Cooch's Bridge along the Christina River were the focus of worldhistory as the British marched through the Diamond State between the Chesapeake Bay and Brandywine Creek.This is the story of the British invasion of Delaware,one of the lesser known but critical watershedmoments in American history.
