Download or read book The Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown 1781 written by Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown 1781 written by Howard Lee Landers and published by Scholars Book Shelf. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2005 Scholar's Bookshelf Reprint. An invaluable, highly detailed history of the closing campaign of the American Revolution, with extensive material on the French-American alliance and the roles played both in the diplomatic background and the military history of the campaign by Louis XVI, Franklin, Vergennes, DEstaing, Rochambeau, and Lafayette. The work includes special chapters on Clinton and Cornwallis, the sea battle off the capes of Virginia, and the siege and surrender of the British. Originally published in 1931 by the U.S. Government Printing Office to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the events. 2005:219 pages, illustrated. Softcover.
Download or read book Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown 1781 Including a Brief Narrative of the French Participation in the Revolution Prior to the Southern Campaign written by Army War College (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Catalog of the Military Art and Science Collection in the Library of the United States Military Academy written by United States Military Academy. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book War Photographs Taken on the Battlefields of the Civil War written by Mathew B. Brady and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought over the course of four years, the Civil War pitted countrymen against countrymen, North versus South, friend against friend, and brother against brother. The photographs within these pages document the war that united America as one. These rare shots were taken in the middle of the battlefield during the earliest days of photography. Selected from a collection of seven thousand original negatives, these historic photos capture nearly every aspect of Civil War life. Among these photos are images of camps sprawling across acres, soldiers at their battlements, firing of heavy artillery, the aftermath of battle, and the terror that these young men faced. See first-hand of Union and Confederate officers strategizing their next moves, and Abraham Lincoln addressing his Union commanders. Originally released from the private collection of Edward Bailey Eaton in 1907, this edition is a must have for any Civil War buff or historian. No collection can be considered complete without these photographs by Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner, as well as the meticulous passages that put the images in illuminating context.
Download or read book The History of Camden County New Jersey written by George Reeser Prowell and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Chautauqua County New York and Its People written by John Phillips Downs and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1921 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Henry Clinton written by Frederick Wyatt and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1959 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Farmington Franklin County Maine from the Earliest Explorations to the Present Time 1776 1885 written by Francis Gould Butler and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Guns of Independence written by Jerome A. Greene and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern, scholarly account of the most decisive campaign during the American Revolution examining the artillery, tactics and leadership involved. The siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781 was the single most decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The campaign has all the drama any historian or student could want: the war’s top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare; night bayonet attacks; and much more. Until now, however, no modern scholarly treatment of the entire campaign has been produced. By the summer of 1781, America had been at war with England for six years. No one believed in 1775 that the colonists would put up such a long and credible struggle. France sided with the colonies as early as 1778, but it was the dispatch of 5,500 infantry under Comte de Rochambeau in the summer of 1780 that shifted the tide of war against the British. In early 1781, after his victories in the Southern Colonies, Lord Cornwallis marched his army north into Virginia. Cornwallis believed the Americans could be decisively defeated in Virginia and the war brought to an end. George Washington believed Cornwallis’s move was a strategic blunder, and he moved vigorously to exploit it. Feinting against General Clinton and the British stronghold of New York, Washington marched his army quickly south. With the assistance of Rochambeau's infantry and a key French naval victory at the Battle off the Capes in September, Washington trapped Cornwallis on the tip of a narrow Virginia peninsula at a place called Yorktown. And so it began. Operating on the belief that Clinton was about to arrive with reinforcements, Cornwallis confidently remained within Yorktown’s inadequate defenses. Determined that nothing short of outright surrender would suffice, his opponent labored day and night to achieve that end. Washington’s brilliance was on display as he skillfully constricted Cornwallis’s position by digging entrenchments, erecting redoubts and artillery batteries, and launching well-timed attacks to capture key enemy positions. The nearly flawless Allied campaign sealed Cornwallis’s fate. Trapped inside crumbling defenses, he surrendered on October 19, 1781, effectively ending the war in North America. Penned by historian Jerome A. Greene, The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781 offers a complete and balanced examination of the siege and the participants involved. Greene’s study is based upon extensive archival research and firsthand archaeological investigation of the battlefield. This fresh and invigorating study will satisfy everyone interested in American Revolutionary history, artillery, siege tactics, and brilliant leadership.
Download or read book Diary of the American War written by Johann von Ewald and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a translation of the diary written by Hessian mercenary Captain Johann Ewald during his service in the American Revolutionary war. Written with humanity, sensitivity, and humor, Ewald's diary discloses many previously unknown facts. His opinions of the British generals and his discussions of their operations, tactics and mistakes are both revealing and entertaining.
Download or read book History of Jones County Georgia written by Carolyn White Williams and published by Southern Historical Press. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By: Carolyn White Williams Pub. 1957, Reprint 2020, 1128 pages, Index, Hard Cover, 0-89308-872-2. Jones County was created in 1807 from Baldwin County. It is located in the center of the state. Originally know for its farm lands before the Civil War, it suffered destruction during the Civil War as Sherman's march to the sea passing through the county due to it cotton gin factor being retrofitted to produce pistols for the Confederate Army. This book is similar to other history books of the era with such topics being discussed: preformation of the county, formation of the county, Indians, early settlers, involvement in the War of 1812, education, religion/churches, towns, roads/trails, and considerable amout of discussion of its involvement in the Civil War. The author has included inscriptions from 40 cemeteries from around the county. She has also included the history of 22 ante-bellum homes located in Jones County and often times giving a biographical sketch of its owner: Clinton, Gordon-Bowen-Blount, Comer, Small, Newton, Peyton, Pitts, Cabaniss, Day-Barron, Barron, Glawson, Lancaster, Greene, White, Roberts, Moughon, Tomotavia, Johnson, and Lowther. But more importantly are the 80 plus genealogies of persons from the county. The reader will also discover an appendix filled with genealogical data: 1811 Tax Digest, 1820 Census, 1826 Land Lottery Draws, Marriage Bonds 1811-1890, Slave Deed Records 1791-1865, Index of Wills 1808-1890, Abstracts of Wills 1808-1810, List of Revolutionary Soldiers and Widows of Soldiers, Roster of Confederate Soldiers, WWI and WWII, Index to 1850 Census, and List of Garnd Jurors 1808-1810.
Download or read book Mills Atlas written by Robert Mills and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reprint edition of MILLS' ATLAS has an especially prepared history and introduction to these maps as well as considerable history about Robert Mills, the man and architect, prepared be Mr. Gene Waddell, formerly Director of the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston. These maps, originally 23 29 in size, have been conveniently reduced in size to 11 17 and folded to fit into an exquisitely gold-stamped simulated leather cover for book shelf or coffee table. The Districts for which maps are included are: Abbeville, Barnwell, Beaufort, Charleston, Chesterfield, Chester, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenville, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Marion, Marlborough, Newberry, Orangeburg, Pendleton, Richland, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, Williamsburg and York.
Download or read book Third Alabama written by Cullen Andrews Battle and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Battle brings his training as a journalist and lawyer to this account of his regiment's wartime experiences. In addition to providing soldiers' accounts of some of the war's bloodiest fights, Battle assesses Confederate mistakes - particularly at Seven Pines - and sheds light on the Third Battle of Winchester, the only decisive defeat in which he was involved."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians written by John Hill Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
