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Book St  Augustine  Florida s Colonial Capital

Download or read book St Augustine Florida s Colonial Capital written by J. T. Van Campen and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book St  Augustine  Florida s Colonial Capital

Download or read book St Augustine Florida s Colonial Capital written by J. T. Van Campen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "St. Augustine, Florida's Colonial Capital" by J. T. Van Campen. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Governor s Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America  1607 1783

Download or read book Governor s Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America 1607 1783 written by Hoke P. Kimball and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.

Book Shaping North America  3 volumes

Download or read book Shaping North America 3 volumes written by James E. Seelye Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 1167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating multivolume set provides a unique resource for learning about early American history, including thematic essays, topical entries, and an invaluable collection of primary source documents. In 1783, just months after the United States achieved independence from Great Britain, General George Washington was compelled to convince his officers not to undertake a military coup of the Congress of Confederation. Had the planned mutinous coup of the Newburgh Conspiracy gone forward, the American experiment may have ended before it even began. The pre-colonial and colonial periods of early American history are filled with accounts of key events that established the course of our nation's development. This expansive three-volume set provides entries on a wide variety of topics and themes in early American history to elucidate how the United States came to be. Written in straightforward language, the encyclopedic entries on social, political, cultural, and military subjects from the pre-Columbian period through the creation of the Constitution (roughly 1400–1790) will be useful for anyone wishing to deeply investigate the who, what, where, when, and why of early America. Additionally, the breadth of primary documents—including personal diaries, letters, poems, images, treaties, and other legal documents—provides readers with firsthand sources written by the men and women who shaped American history, both the famous and the less well known. Each of the three volumes also presents thematic essays on highlighted topics to fully place the individual entries within their proper historical context and heighten readers' comprehension.

Book St  Augustine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shane Mountjoy
  • Publisher : Infobase Publishing
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1438101228
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book St Augustine written by Shane Mountjoy and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by the Spanish admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles in 1565, St. Augustine remained in Spanish hands until the 1763 Treaty of Paris awarded Florida to Great Britain. This book explores the rich history of the longest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States, and its captivating text and vibrant images are sure to draw readers into this volume of the new Colonial Settlements in America set.

Book The Other War of 1812

    Book Details:
  • Author : James G. Cusick
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2007-04-01
  • ISBN : 0820329215
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book The Other War of 1812 written by James G. Cusick and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurrecting a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history, James G. Cusick tells how, just before the United States went to war against Great Britain in 1812, an ill-advised invasion of a Spanish colony became a stage on which the young republic clumsily acted out its imperial ambitions and racial fears. With the halfhearted backing of President James Madison and Secretary of State James Monroe, a party of Georgians invaded East Florida, confident that partisans there would help them swiftly wrest the colony away from Spain. The raid was a strategic and political disaster. Few sympathizers materialized, official U.S. support dissolved, and an extended guerrilla war ensued. This was the "other war of 1812," or the Patriot War. Cusick, a lively storyteller as well as a meticulous scholar, conveys the savagery of the borderlands conflict that pitted American adventurers and anti-Spanish partisans against Spanish loyalists and their allies, who included Seminole Indians and escaped slaves. At the same time, Cusick looks at the American motivations behind the invasion, including apprehensions about Florida's growing population of unregulated blacks and geopolitical intrigues involving Spain, Britain, and France.

Book Colonial America and the American Revolution

Download or read book Colonial America and the American Revolution written by Clint Johnson and published by ASDavis Media Group. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the casual traveler or dedicated history enthusiast, this definitive guide gives an illuminating glimpse into the nation's early days and struggle for independence. Relive the colonial days through a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. Explore Washington Crossing State Park, where one of George Washington's pivotal victories took place on Christmas night in 1776.

Book St  Augustine and the Civil War

Download or read book St Augustine and the Civil War written by Robert Redd and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Florida seceded from the Union in 1861, St. Augustine followed much of the South and widely supported the Confederacy. Many residents rushed to join the Confederate army. Union forces, however, quickly seized the lightly protected town and used it as a rest area for battle-weary troops. Seven Union regiments called the city home during the war. While no major engagement took place in St. Augustine, the city is filled with Civil War history, from supporting the Confederacy to accepting Union generals as respected residents. Join author Robert Redd as he details St. Augustines rich history during the Civil War and in the postwar years.

Book The History of Saint Augustine  Florida

Download or read book The History of Saint Augustine Florida written by William Whitwell Dewhurst and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book St Augustine in History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rodney Carlisle
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2014-03-01
  • ISBN : 1561647314
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book St Augustine in History written by Rodney Carlisle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Augustine, America's oldest continuously occupied city, is a unique and enchanting travel destination. This book presents more than 70 sites in their historical context. From the famed Fountain of Youth to the Castillo de San Marcos, from the Old City Jail to Henry Flagler's three beautiful hotels, from the Oldest House to Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, St. Augustine has 500 years of history waiting to be explored. Arranged in chronological order, this book offers a digestible description of each of the city's main time periods, from 1513 to the present, and then describes associated attractions you can visit today. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Book Building the Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Conn
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2016-01-18
  • ISBN : 081229310X
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Building the Nation written by Steven Conn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it. Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, and across more than two centuries of history, this anthology shows that the struggle to imagine what kinds of buildings and land use would best suit the nation pervaded all classes of Americans and was not the purview only of architects and designers. Some of the nation's finest writers, including Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Lewis Mumford, E. B. White, and John McPhee, are here, contemplating the American way of building. Equally important are those eloquent but little-known voices found in American newspapers and magazines which insistently wondered what American architecture and environmental planning should look like. Building the Nation also insists that American architecture can be understood only as both a result of and a force in shaping American social, cultural, and political developments. In so doing, this anthology demonstrates how central the built environment has been to our definition of what it is to be American and reveals seven central themes that have repeatedly animated American writers over the course of the past two centuries: the relationship of American architecture to European architecture, the nation's diverse regions, the place and shape of nature in American life, the design of cities, the explosion of the suburbs, the power of architecture to reform individuals, and the role of tradition in a nation dedicated to being perennially young.

Book Religion  Power  and Politics in Colonial St  Augustine

Download or read book Religion Power and Politics in Colonial St Augustine written by Robert L. Kapitzke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work fills an important gap in Spanish American history by presenting, in vivid detail, the dynamic religious life of the principal settlement and capital of Florida."--BOOK JACKET.

Book East Florida in the Revolutionary Era  1763   1785

Download or read book East Florida in the Revolutionary Era 1763 1785 written by George Kotlik and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1763 Great Britain organized the colony of East Florida, which formed the entirety of what is now the state of Florida east of the Apalachicola River. Today, the history of East Florida is seldom studied, relegated to the outskirts of Colonial and Revolutionary Era literature, if the colony is mentioned at all. Such relegation leads many to assume that nothing significant must have happened there, but nothing is further from the truth. In 1775, a violent border war erupted between East Florida and the state of Georgia; two noteworthy Revolutionary War battles were fought on East Florida soil; and three American invasions failed to bring East Florida into the rebellion. In East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785, George Kotlik provides the first comprehensive and detailed history of British East Florida, drawing attention to the colony's early development and connection to the American Revolution.

Book Spain  Britain and the American Revolution in Florida  1763 1783

Download or read book Spain Britain and the American Revolution in Florida 1763 1783 written by James W. Raab and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, Spain relinquished Florida, a land it had possessed for over 200 years, to the British. With revolution imminent, Britain set about populating its two new colonies of East and West Florida with loyal British Tories, ultimately turning St. Augustine into a southern American headquarters for British interests. This volume details the British occupation of colonial Florida immediately before and during the American Revolution with emphasis on the effect this possession had on the course of the war. Beginning with a brief summary of Spanish history, it takes a look at the relative colonial positions of Spain and Britain with regard to the Americas during the pre-revolutionary period. The Georgia-Florida border dispute, the invasion of East Florida and the eventual return of the Spaniards are also discussed. Finally, an appendix details St. Augustine buildings from the revolutionary period which are still standing today.

Book Historic South Carolina

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lee Davis Perry
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-12-30
  • ISBN : 1493054759
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Historic South Carolina written by Lee Davis Perry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic South Carolina: A Tour of the State's Top National Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the state's nationally recognized historic landmarks. This guide provides interesting anecdotes and color photography of famous manors and plantation houses, centuries-old churches and chapels, and beautiful marshlands of the Low Country. Tour the Palmetto State and travel back in time with Historic South Carolina.