Author: Benjamin GLEASON
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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An oration pronounced at the Baptist Meeting House in Wrentham, Feb. 22, 1800, at the request of the Society, in memory of Gen. George Washington, etc
Author: Benjamin GLEASON
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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An Oration, Pronounced July 4, 1821, in the Baptist Meeting House in Southbridge, Mass. it Being the Forty-fifth Anniversary of American Independence
Author: John Bisbe
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell Bartlett
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Pages : 584
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell Smith
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Rhode Island Historical Magazine
Author: Henry Edward Turner
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Forgotten Patriots
Author: Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786727047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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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.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786727047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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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.
American Bibliography: 1799-1800. By C. K. Shipton
Author: Charles Evans
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Pages : 910
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Sale
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
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