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Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
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Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War? New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after the Crown's forces took New York City, much of...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
One of today's leading thinkers on military affairs recounts the tumultuous history of "The Great Warpath," the corridor between Albany and Montreal where the American way of battle was formed from the late 17th to the early 19th century.
Author
Publisher
International Marine/McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Covering one of history's great battles, Benedict Arnold's Navy recounts the courageousand exemplary campaign of Arnold and his cobbled-together fleet of ships against a much superior British force in the Battle of Valcour Island (Lake Champlain) in October 1776. This landmark book shows how Arnold's fearless leadership against staggering odds in a northern wilderness secured for America the independence that he would later try to betray.
Author
Publisher
Black Dome Press Corp
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"This ... narrative chronicles events instrumental in the painful birth of a new nation -- from the Bloody Morning Scout and the massacre at Fort William Henry to the disastrous siege of Quebec, the lopsided Battle of Valcour Island, the horrors of Oriskany, and the tragedies of the Pennsylvania Wyoming Valley massacre and the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition's destruction of the Iroquois homeland. Caught in the middle of it all was the Mohawk River Valley"--Page...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning g strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany. When British forces captured...
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