Author: William Max Reid
Publisher: New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's sons
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Mendel, Mesick, Cohen
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: William Max Reid
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ISBN: 9781230362137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: W. Max Reid
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ISBN: 9780788408892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Old Fort Johnson was not really a fort; it was the home of the famous Sir William Johnson, Major General and Indian Commissioner during the French and Indian War, Pontiac's Rebellion and the beginning of the Revolution. This is not so much the story of Ol

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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 1132

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Author: Nelson Greene
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Category : Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 978

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Author: Mary Riggs Diefendorf
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons 1910.
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Category : Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Peter Gansevoort, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476616809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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In August 1777, Peter Gansevoort, Jr., defended Fort Schuyler (also known as Fort Stanwix) during a three-week siege by 1,700 British soldiers, Tories and Indians commanded by Colonel Barry St. Leger. Gansevoort won the distinction of successfully resisting a British siege in a period when every other continental post in New York was either evacuated or surrendered. His valiant effort led to the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga, a crucial point of the war. Born to an affluent Dutch family in Albany County, New York, Gansevoort was active in several theaters of Revolutionary War operations, including General Montgomery's Canadian campaign (1775), the Champlain-Hudson-Mohawk Valley defense against Burgoyne's northern invasion (1776-1777), the Sullivan-Clinton campaign (1779) and the New York-Vermont insurrection (1781). After the war, he was active in both military and civic arenas, rising to the position of brigadier general of the U.S. Army in 1809. Before his death, he presided over General James Wilkinson's court-martial in 1811. This documentary edition provides 279 pieces of correspondence to and from Gansevoort (and a few others) from 1775 to 1812.

Author: Codman Hislop
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Hislop writes living history. Father Jogues is there, as are Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant, Nicholas Herkimer, DeWitt Clinton, Eliphalet Nott, the Remingtons, Charles Steinmetz, and a host of others. Fur trading, land grabbing, Dutch, Palatines, Yankees, the Battle of Oriskany, the Erie Canal, the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, General Electric are all part of the story of The Mohawk. Hislop's presentation of this unique region is both informative and compelling.

Author: Rupert Furneaux
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000339327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The Grand Strategy, the imaginative plan to divide the rebellious American colonies, ended in disaster. On October 17, 1777, General Sir John Burgoyne, alone, unaided and stranded in the American wilderness, capitulated with his army at Saratoga in upper New York State. It was the ‘turning point’ of the Revolution, which culminated four years later in the British surrender at Yorktown. Creasy wrote of Saratoga: ‘Nor can any military event be said to have exercised more important influence upon the future fortunes of mankind...’ Who blundered? For nearly two centuries, Lord George Germain, the ‘maladroit’ minister, has been blamed, together with the Commander-in-Chief, Sir William Howe; but Burgoyne, ‘Gentleman Johnny’ as his affectionate troops called him, has largely escaped criticism. Only in the late 1960s had a full assessment become possible, by the publication of all the correspondence that passed between these men. Originally published in 1971, from his study of these letters, and by his visit to the campaign area, author Rupert Furneaux questions this long accepted view. The British disaster resulted, he says, not because anyone particularly blundered, or from any ‘pigeon-holed’ despatch, but rather because no one bargained that thousands of ordinary American citizens would rally to bar Burgoyne’s path. Experienced frontier-fighters and skilled marksmen, they mowed down the closely-ranked Redcoats and the German mercenaries, who had all been trained for European battles. Saratoga heralded a new age of warfare, which Europeans took another hundred years to learn. It was also far more than a British defeat; it was an American victory, the decisive battle whereby they won the right to run their own lives without interference from Europe – and with incalculable consequences.