Download or read book So Obstinately Loyal written by Susan Burgess Shenstone and published by MQUP. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once called "that villain Moody" by George Washington himself, and "the best Partizan we had," by William Franklin, the Loyalist governor of New Jersey, Moody risked his life recruiting, gathering intelligence, and freeing prisoners behind American lines. Next came dispossession and exile in London, where he strove to obtain British recognition of his losses, and wrote the objective, exciting account of his fateful choice, and the exploits that inspired this book. So Obstinately Loyal culminates in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, where, along with almost 40,000 other Loyalists, Moody had to remake a life among the Acadians and earlier Yankee settlers. His complex career encompassed ship-building, efforts to found an Anglican parish, military service as an officer in a regiment formed to defend against invasion from revolutionary France, and building on his American experience to work for constitutional reform. Moody's life was shaped by the growing pains of fledgling nationhood on both sides of the border. Yet he and people like him also helped to shape the destinies of nations. This complex weave of precarious existence and nation-building, of adaptation and "staking one's all," emerges clearly from Susan Shenstones's meticulous research and vivid writing.

Download or read book So Obstinately Loyal written by Susan Burgess Shenstone and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-06-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of James Moody, a once-famous, even infamous, partisan of Britain during the American Revolutionary War.

Download or read book Abductions in the American Revolution written by Christian McBurney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tactic of kidnapping enemy leaders, used in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, dates to the American Revolution. George Washington called such efforts "honorable" and supported attempts to kidnap the British commander-in-chief (twice), Benedict Arnold (after he turned traitor) and Prince William Henry (a future king of Great Britain). Washington in turn was targeted at his Morristown winter headquarters by British dragoons who crossed the frozen Hudson River. New Jersey Governor William Livingston performed a patriotic service by going to considerable lengths to avoid being abducted by the Loyalist raider James Moody. Sometimes these operations succeeded, as with the spectacular captures of Major General Charles Lee, Major General Richard Prescott, Brigadier General Gold Selleck Silliman, and North Carolina's governor Thomas Burke. Sometimes they barely failed, as with the violent attempt by British secret service operatives against Major General Philip Schuyler and the mission by British dragoons against Thomas Jefferson. Some of the abducted, such as signer of the Declaration of Independence Richard Stockton and Delaware's governor John McKinly, suffered damage to their reputations. The kidnapper risked all--if caught, he could be hanged. This book covers more than thirty major attempted and successful abductions of military and civilian leaders from 1775 to 1783, from Maine to Georgia, and including two in Great Britain.

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Download or read book The Plays of William Shakespeare With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators Revised and Augmented by Isaac Reed Etc written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The plays of William Shakspeare with the corrections and illustr of various commentators to which are added notes by S Johnson and G Steevens revised and augmented by I Reed with a glossarial index written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare The tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra 1907 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Beauties of Shakespeare Cb written by William Dodd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. This is Volume I of Two of a series on Eighteenth Century writings on Shakespeare. This text looks at the 'beauties of Shakepsear' (first edition 1752) and includes a general index and explanatory notes and passages from ancient and modern authors. This volume includes the Comedies, plus four of the Tragedies.