Author: Essex Institute
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ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Historical Collections of the Essex Institute
Author: Essex Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Essex Institute Historical Collections
Author: Essex Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Historical Collections of the Essex Institute
Author: Essex Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Historical collections of the Essex institute
Author: Salem Mass, Essex inst
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The Genesis of America
Author: Jasper M. Trautsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842824X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Explores how foreign policy was used to promote American nationalism by creating external threats in the early republic.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842824X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Explores how foreign policy was used to promote American nationalism by creating external threats in the early republic.
Historical Collections
Author: Essex Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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The Genealogical Bulletin
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Surviving the Winters
Author: Steven Elliott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge form an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revolution. Such winter camps, Steven Elliott tells us in Surviving the Winters, were also a critical factor in the waging and winning of the War of Independence. Exploring the inner workings of the Continental Army through the prism of its encampments, this book is the first to show how camp construction and administration played a crucial role in Patriot strategy during the war. As Elliott reminds us, Washington’s troops spent only a few days a year in combat. The rest of the time, especially in the winter months, they were engaged in a different sort of battle—against the elements, unfriendly terrain, disease, and hunger. Victory in that more sustained struggle depended on a mastery of camp construction, logistics, and health and hygiene—the components that Elliott considers in his environmental, administrative, and operational investigation of the winter encampments at Middlebrook, Morristown, West Point, New Windsor, and Valley Forge. Beyond the encampments’ basic function of sheltering soldiers, his study reveals their importance as a key component of Washington’s Fabian strategy: stationed on secure, mountainous terrain close to New York, the camps allowed the Continental commander-in-chief to monitor the enemy but avoid direct engagement, thus neutralizing a numerically superior opponent while husbanding his own strength. Documenting the growth of Washington and his subordinates as military administrators, Surviving the Winters offers a telling new perspective on the commander’s generalship during the Revolutionary War. At the same time, the book demonstrates that these winter encampments stand alongside more famous battlefields as sites where American independence was won.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge form an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revolution. Such winter camps, Steven Elliott tells us in Surviving the Winters, were also a critical factor in the waging and winning of the War of Independence. Exploring the inner workings of the Continental Army through the prism of its encampments, this book is the first to show how camp construction and administration played a crucial role in Patriot strategy during the war. As Elliott reminds us, Washington’s troops spent only a few days a year in combat. The rest of the time, especially in the winter months, they were engaged in a different sort of battle—against the elements, unfriendly terrain, disease, and hunger. Victory in that more sustained struggle depended on a mastery of camp construction, logistics, and health and hygiene—the components that Elliott considers in his environmental, administrative, and operational investigation of the winter encampments at Middlebrook, Morristown, West Point, New Windsor, and Valley Forge. Beyond the encampments’ basic function of sheltering soldiers, his study reveals their importance as a key component of Washington’s Fabian strategy: stationed on secure, mountainous terrain close to New York, the camps allowed the Continental commander-in-chief to monitor the enemy but avoid direct engagement, thus neutralizing a numerically superior opponent while husbanding his own strength. Documenting the growth of Washington and his subordinates as military administrators, Surviving the Winters offers a telling new perspective on the commander’s generalship during the Revolutionary War. At the same time, the book demonstrates that these winter encampments stand alongside more famous battlefields as sites where American independence was won.
Index to the Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volumes I-XL, 1859-1904
Author: George Francis Dow
Publisher:
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Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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