Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898

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Author: Michael S. McGurty
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476650837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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The Revolutionary War was nearing its end in early 1783. In his Hudson Highlands stronghold, General Washington kept a wary eye on the British force in New York City, 60 miles away. His army, owed months of back pay, and his officers frustrated by the negotiations over their promised pension, chafed under martial authority. A nationalist faction in Congress seized upon this discontent to instigate the Newburgh Conspiracy, a plot by Continental Army officers to menace civil officials who opposed the Impost, a 5% tax on imports to be collected by the central government, to satisfy the nation's debts. The army--by this time a formidable force of seasoned veterans--was provoked into threatening the very liberties it had fought to defend. This book examines this last major crisis of the Revolution, when Washington stood between his men and the American people.

Author: Bernard A. Drew
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786489650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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During the winter of 1776, in one of the most amazing logistical feats of the Revolutionary War, Henry Knox and his teamsters transported cannons from Fort Ticonderoga through the sparsely populated Berkshires to Boston to help drive British forces from the city. This history documents Knox's precise route--dubbed the Henry Knox Trail--and chronicles the evolution of an ordinary Indian path into a fur corridor, a settlement trail, and eventually a war road. By recounting the growth of this important but under appreciated thoroughfare, this study offers critical insight into a vital Revolutionary supply route.

Author: Francis Bernard Heitman
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494

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Author: Bruce W. Stewart
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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