Author: Mark Puls
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1403984271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A comprehensive biography of military tactician and later the nation's first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, that chronicles his childhood, military service with the Boston Grenadier Corps, and appointment to Washington's cabinet.
Henry Knox
Author: Mark Puls
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1403984271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A comprehensive biography of military tactician and later the nation's first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, that chronicles his childhood, military service with the Boston Grenadier Corps, and appointment to Washington's cabinet.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1403984271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A comprehensive biography of military tactician and later the nation's first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, that chronicles his childhood, military service with the Boston Grenadier Corps, and appointment to Washington's cabinet.
Army History
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Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April 1775, to December, 1783
Author: Francis Bernard Heitman
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Aachen - East Twinsey
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Quack - Zwolle
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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Index, the Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Leacraft, W.-Pyttis
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States
Author: John Howard Brown
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Avenging the People
Author: J. M. Opal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"With the passionate support of most voters and their families, Andrew Jackson broke through the protocols of the Founding generation, defying constitutional and international norms in the name of the "sovereign people." And yet Jackson's career was no less about limiting that sovereignty, imposing one kind of law over Americans so that they could inflict his sort of "justice" on non-Americans. Jackson made his name along the Carolina and Tennessee frontiers by representing merchants and creditors and serving governors and judges. At times that meant ejecting white squatters from native lands and returning blacks slaves to native planters. Jackson performed such duties in the name of federal authority and the "law of nations." Yet he also survived an undeclared war with Cherokee and Creek fighters between 1792 and 1794, raging at the Washington administration's failure to "avenge the blood" of white colonists who sometimes leaned towards the Spanish Empire rather than the United States. Even under the friendlier presidency of Thomas Jefferson, Jackson chafed at the terms of national loyalty. During the long war in the south and west from 1811 to 1818 he repeatedly brushed aside state and federal restraints on organized violence, citing his deeper obligations to the people's safety within a terrifying world of hostile empires, lurking warriors, and rebellious slaves. By 1819 white Americans knew him as their "great avenger." Drawing from recent literatures on Jackson and the early republic and also from new archival sources, Avenging the People portrays him as a peculiar kind of nationalist for a particular form of nation, a grim and principled man whose grim principles made Americans fearsome in some respects and helpless in others"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"With the passionate support of most voters and their families, Andrew Jackson broke through the protocols of the Founding generation, defying constitutional and international norms in the name of the "sovereign people." And yet Jackson's career was no less about limiting that sovereignty, imposing one kind of law over Americans so that they could inflict his sort of "justice" on non-Americans. Jackson made his name along the Carolina and Tennessee frontiers by representing merchants and creditors and serving governors and judges. At times that meant ejecting white squatters from native lands and returning blacks slaves to native planters. Jackson performed such duties in the name of federal authority and the "law of nations." Yet he also survived an undeclared war with Cherokee and Creek fighters between 1792 and 1794, raging at the Washington administration's failure to "avenge the blood" of white colonists who sometimes leaned towards the Spanish Empire rather than the United States. Even under the friendlier presidency of Thomas Jefferson, Jackson chafed at the terms of national loyalty. During the long war in the south and west from 1811 to 1818 he repeatedly brushed aside state and federal restraints on organized violence, citing his deeper obligations to the people's safety within a terrifying world of hostile empires, lurking warriors, and rebellious slaves. By 1819 white Americans knew him as their "great avenger." Drawing from recent literatures on Jackson and the early republic and also from new archival sources, Avenging the People portrays him as a peculiar kind of nationalist for a particular form of nation, a grim and principled man whose grim principles made Americans fearsome in some respects and helpless in others"--