Author: Kenneth P. Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In 1750 and 1751 Christopher Gist, an agent of the Ohio Company of Virginia, explored the greater portion of the region now included within the boundaries of Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, along with portions of western Maryland and southwestern Pennsylvania. These explorations were the earliest made so far west for the sole object of examining the country, and the first of which a regular journal was kept. It was on these two journeys that he made his greatest contribution to history.
Christopher Gist
Author: Kenneth P. Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In 1750 and 1751 Christopher Gist, an agent of the Ohio Company of Virginia, explored the greater portion of the region now included within the boundaries of Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, along with portions of western Maryland and southwestern Pennsylvania. These explorations were the earliest made so far west for the sole object of examining the country, and the first of which a regular journal was kept. It was on these two journeys that he made his greatest contribution to history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In 1750 and 1751 Christopher Gist, an agent of the Ohio Company of Virginia, explored the greater portion of the region now included within the boundaries of Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, along with portions of western Maryland and southwestern Pennsylvania. These explorations were the earliest made so far west for the sole object of examining the country, and the first of which a regular journal was kept. It was on these two journeys that he made his greatest contribution to history.
The Journals of George Washington and His Guide, Christopher Gist
Author: George Washington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258938482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258938482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the society.
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the society.
A Narrative History of Wise County, Virginia
Author: Charles A. Johnson
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9780932807298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This history is enriched with personal recollections and reminiscences. Its pages are filled with the names of those individuals who settled, or helped in some way to establish the County, as well as those who are remembered for various other reasons. The fifty-four illustrations include Wise County’s commonwealth attorneys, from the first (1856) to the twenty-first (1935).
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9780932807298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This history is enriched with personal recollections and reminiscences. Its pages are filled with the names of those individuals who settled, or helped in some way to establish the County, as well as those who are remembered for various other reasons. The fifty-four illustrations include Wise County’s commonwealth attorneys, from the first (1856) to the twenty-first (1935).
Fifty Stories from Ohio History
Author: Clement Luther Martzolff
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Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
First Explorations of Kentucky
Author: Josiah Stoddard Johnston
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Christopher Gist of Maryland
Author: Jean Muir Dorsey
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Crucible of War
Author: Fred Anderson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of North America. Anderson skillfully reveals the clash of inherited perceptions the war created when it gave thousands of American colonists their first experience of real Englishmen and introduced them to the British cultural and class system. We see colonists who assumed that they were partners in the empire encountering British officers who regarded them as subordinates and who treated them accordingly. This laid the groundwork in shared experience for a common view of the world, of the empire, and of the men who had once been their masters. Thus, Anderson shows, the war taught George Washington and other provincials profound emotional lessons, as well as giving them practical instruction in how to be soldiers. Depicting the subsequent British efforts to reform the empire and American resistance — the riots of the Stamp Act crisis and the nearly simultaneous pan-Indian insurrection called Pontiac's Rebellion — as postwar developments rather than as an anticipation of the national independence that no one knew lay ahead (or even desired), Anderson re-creates the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold while they tried to preserve imperial relationships. Interweaving stories of kings and imperial officers with those of Indians, traders, and the diverse colonial peoples, Anderson brings alive a chapter of our history that was shaped as much by individual choices and actions as by social, economic, and political forces.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of North America. Anderson skillfully reveals the clash of inherited perceptions the war created when it gave thousands of American colonists their first experience of real Englishmen and introduced them to the British cultural and class system. We see colonists who assumed that they were partners in the empire encountering British officers who regarded them as subordinates and who treated them accordingly. This laid the groundwork in shared experience for a common view of the world, of the empire, and of the men who had once been their masters. Thus, Anderson shows, the war taught George Washington and other provincials profound emotional lessons, as well as giving them practical instruction in how to be soldiers. Depicting the subsequent British efforts to reform the empire and American resistance — the riots of the Stamp Act crisis and the nearly simultaneous pan-Indian insurrection called Pontiac's Rebellion — as postwar developments rather than as an anticipation of the national independence that no one knew lay ahead (or even desired), Anderson re-creates the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold while they tried to preserve imperial relationships. Interweaving stories of kings and imperial officers with those of Indians, traders, and the diverse colonial peoples, Anderson brings alive a chapter of our history that was shaped as much by individual choices and actions as by social, economic, and political forces.
Old Kent
Author: George Adolphus Hanson
Publisher:
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Category : Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Start Writing Your Book Today
Author: Morgan Gist MacDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996933117
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In this book, the author walks you through every step of how to write a book. After you read it, you'll be ready to start writing today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996933117
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In this book, the author walks you through every step of how to write a book. After you read it, you'll be ready to start writing today.