Download or read book The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution written by Jonathan R. Dull and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the effect of the American Revolution on European relations, relates American diplomatic efforts to others of the time, and explains why England could not find allies against the colonists
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Union League of Philadelphia written by Union League of Philadelphia. Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naval Documents of the American Revolution written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavery s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution written by Timothy Messer-Kruse and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. While historians have generally acknowledged that patriot leaders assembled in response to postwar economic chaos, the threat of popular insurgencies, and the inability of the states to agree on how to fund the national government, Timothy Messer-Kruse suggests that scholars have discounted Americans’ desire to compel Britain to return fugitives from slavery as a driving force behind the convention. During the Revolutionary War, British governors offered freedom to enslaved Americans who joined the king’s army. Thousands responded by fleeing to English camps. After the British defeat at Yorktown, American diplomats demanded the surrender of fugitive slaves. When British generals refused, several states confiscated Loyalist estates and blocked payment of English creditors, hoping to apply enough pressure on the Crown to hand over the runaways. State laws conflicting with the 1783 Treaty of Paris violated the Articles of Confederation—the young nation’s first constitution—but Congress, lacking an executive branch or a federal judiciary, had no means to obligate states to comply. The standoff over the escaped slaves quickly escalated following the Revolution as Britain failed to abandon the western forts it occupied and took steps to curtail American commerce. More than any other single matter, the impasse over the return of enslaved Americans threatened to hamper the nation’s ability to expand westward, develop its commercial economy, and establish itself as a power among the courts of Europe. Messer-Kruse argues that the issue encouraged the founders to consider the prospect of scrapping the Articles of Confederation and drafting a superseding document that would dramatically increase federal authority—the Constitution.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the United States Senate written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebels at Sea Privateering in the American Revolution written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award A Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must-Read" Finalist for the New England Society Book Award Finalist for the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Book Award The bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation’s character—above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. In Rebels at Sea, best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission, and contends that privateers, as they were called, were in fact critical to the American victory. Privateers were privately owned vessels, mostly refitted merchant ships, that were granted permission by the new government to seize British merchantmen and men of war. As Dolin stirringly demonstrates, at a time when the young Continental Navy numbered no more than about sixty vessels all told, privateers rushed to fill the gaps. Nearly 2,000 set sail over the course of the war, with tens of thousands of Americans serving on them and capturing some 1,800 British ships. Privateers came in all shapes and sizes, from twenty-five foot long whaleboats to full-rigged ships more than 100 feet long. Bristling with cannons, swivel guns, muskets, and pikes, they tormented their foes on the broad Atlantic and in bays and harbors on both sides of the ocean. The men who owned the ships, as well as their captains and crew, would divide the profits of a successful cruise—and suffer all the more if their ship was captured or sunk, with privateersmen facing hellish conditions on British prison hulks, where they were treated not as enemy combatants but as pirates. Some Americans viewed them similarly, as cynical opportunists whose only aim was loot. Yet Dolin shows that privateersmen were as patriotic as their fellow Americans, and moreover that they greatly contributed to the war’s success: diverting critical British resources to protecting their shipping, playing a key role in bringing France into the war on the side of the United States, providing much-needed supplies at home, and bolstering the new nation’s confidence that it might actually defeat the most powerful military force in the world. Creating an entirely new pantheon of Revolutionary heroes, Dolin reclaims such forgotten privateersmen as Captain Jonathan Haraden and Offin Boardman, putting their exploits, and sacrifices, at the very center of the conflict. Abounding in tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters, Rebels at Sea presents this nation’s first war as we have rarely seen it before.
Download or read book Rochambeau written by De Benneville Randolph Keim and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diplomacy of the American Revolution written by Samuel Flagg Bemis and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the superficial observer there would seem never to have been an age less propitious for the birth of a new nation. The tendency of the times was altogether for the aggrandizement of big states and the consolidation of their territory at the expense of the little ones, for the extinction of the weaker nations and governments rather than for the creation of new ones. Nevertheless it was this bitter cut-throat international rivalry which was to make American independence possible." On April 15th, 1783, the Articles of Peace between the United States and Great Britain went into effect proclaiming that “His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the United States…to be free Sovereign and independent States.” That recognition, the origins of which began almost seven years earlier in Philadelphia, the fate of which was uncertain at Valley Forge and ultimately vindicated at Yorktown, represented a monumental achievement for the new American nation. It also, as Samuel Flagg Bemis shows us, marked the end of a world war. This book explains the ambitions and interests of European powers during the American Revolution. France’s search for revenge against Britain after the French and Indian War, Spain’s attempt to retake Gibraltar, the complicated trade interests of the Netherlands and Russia, Austria’s fears of a two-front war – each of these saw America’s struggle for independence as an event that affected their own strategies. And, as Bemis shows us, it is through that prism that we should consider the actions of those who supported America and Great Britain.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Jared Sparks written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Bowdoin College to which is Added an Index of Subjects Edited by W P Tucker written by Bowdoin College (BRUNSWICK, Me.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of State Librarian written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the State Librarian written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Download or read book Report of the State Librarian to the Legislature of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
