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Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book reveals how the lived experience of military occupation shaped the outcome of the Revolutionary War. Using accounts of those who lived under military rule in the six American cities occupied by the British Army, this book demonstrates how, over the course of the eight-year conflict, military occupations slowly frayed and eventually severed the bonds of imperial authority. Although the experience of occupation differed from place to place...
5) The men who lost America: British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xiv, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations, geneolgical table ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess." As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of the utmost diplomatic urgency, a last-ditch attempt to...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This book describes the events that led to the climax and eventual demise of the British campaign of the Revolutionary War, when relatively small armies of men waged a ferocious series of battles in the southern theater. The introductory chapter presents the British and Hessian employment of the 18th-century European method of warfare and the ways it contrasted with the colonial army's diverse and constantly changing fighting styles. The subsequent...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 296 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic untold 'people's history' of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution"--
"The story of the Boston Massacre--when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death--is familiar to generations. But the history of the event has always obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Historian Serena Zabin weaves colorful stories...
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