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Book Synopsis American Turtle Submarine, The by : Arthur Lefkowitz
Download or read book American Turtle Submarine, The written by Arthur Lefkowitz and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An effort of genius. -George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 1785 The world's first submarine was used during the American Revolution. While other men his age supported the country with muskets, Yale graduate David Bushnell sought the answer to one important question: how to defend America against the British Royal Navy. His answer was the American Turtle. Focusing on the vessel's most important mission, sinking Britain's flagship in New York harbor, this concise history follows the development of the invention from drawing table to open water and onwards.
Book Synopsis David Bushnell and His American Turtle by : David Bushnell
Download or read book David Bushnell and His American Turtle written by David Bushnell and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bushnell's 1776 invention, the American Turtle, the first submarine ever to be used in combat, was actually constructed as an afterthought. Bushnell and fellow Yale University intellectual, Phineas Pratt, had conceived of the underwater bomb with a time delayed flintlock detonator. The one-man, hand-propelled sub was designed simply to transport the bomb to the enemy vessel. The American Turtle was successfully launched in the dark of night on September 6/7, 1776 against the British flagship, HMS Eagle, a 64 gun frigate moored in New York harbor off of the island now occupied by the Statue of Liberty. The Turtle had undergone extensive test trials in the safe colonial waters of the Connecticut River off Old Saybrook, Connecticut, piloted by the inventor's brother, Ezra Bushnell. Unfortunately, on the eve of the submarine's first combat mission, Ezra Bushnell died. With a freshly recruited, but less practiced pilot, Ezra Lee of Old Lyme, Connecticut, the American Turtle made its way underwater to the rudder of the Eagle's hull. Unfortunately, Lee first struck metal rather than wood with the screw intended to attach the bomb to the enemy's hull. After a second failed attempt, Lee propelled the American Turtle away, only to be observed and chased. The bomb was released into the water and resulted in a frightening explosion. While the American Turtle failed to destroy its target, the British recognized the threat and moved the fleet. Weather problems, and other operating difficulties prevented a successful attack by the submarine before it was scuttled by the British while being transported.Bushnell is a man of great mechanical powers, fertile in invention and a master of execution-- General George Washington, September 26, 1785
Book Synopsis Attack of the Turtle by : Drew Carlson
Download or read book Attack of the Turtle written by Drew Carlson and published by Eerdmans Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.
Book Synopsis Bushnell's Submarine by : Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Download or read book Bushnell's Submarine written by Arthur S. Lefkowitz and published by Scholastic Reference. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story about David Bushnell, the inventor of the world's first submarine.
Download or read book Submarine written by Tom Clancy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy's magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world...the weapons, the procedures, the people themselves...the startling facts behind the fiction that made Tom Clancy a #1 bestselling author.
Download or read book Turtle written by Roy R. Manstan and published by Westholme Pub Llc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the onset of the American Revolution, David Bushnell created the first submarine vessel designed specifically for the destruction of vessels of war. The authors provide new insight into Bushnell's invention and trace the history of undersea warfare before Bushnell. Illustrations. Maps.
Book Synopsis Sergeant Ezra Lee and His "American Turtle" by : Louis Israel Newman
Download or read book Sergeant Ezra Lee and His "American Turtle" written by Louis Israel Newman and published by . This book was released on with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic description of Ezra Lee's attempt to torpedo a British ship during the American Revolution with David Bushnell's Submarine, the American Turtle.
Book Synopsis My American Revolution by : Robert Sullivan
Download or read book My American Revolution written by Robert Sullivan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of Pennsylvania that on a clear day you can almost see from the Empire State Building. In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan delves into this first Middle America, digging for a glorious, heroic part of the past in the urban, suburban, and sometimes even rural landscape of today. And there are great adventures along the way: Sullivan investigates the true history of the crossing of the Delaware, its down-home reenactment each year for the past half a century, and—toward the end of a personal odyssey that involves camping in New Jersey backyards, hiking through lost "mountains," and eventually some physical therapy—he evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan by handmade boat. He recounts a Brooklyn historian's failed attempt to memorialize a colonial Maryland regiment; a tattoo artist's more successful use of a colonial submarine, which resulted in his 2007 arrest by the New York City police and the FBI; and the life of Philip Freneau, the first (and not great) poet of American independence, who died in a swamp in the snow. Last but not least, along New York harbor, Sullivan re-creates an ancient signal beacon. Like an almanac, My American Revolution moves through the calendar of American independence, considering the weather and the tides, the harbor and the estuary and the yearly return of the stars as salient factors in the war for independence. In this fiercely individual and often hilarious journey to make our revolution his, he shows us how alive our own history is, right under our noses.
Book Synopsis David Bushnell and His Turtle by : June Swanson
Download or read book David Bushnell and His Turtle written by June Swanson and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the eithteenth-century Connecticut farmer who invented the submarine first used in naval warfare during the American Revolution.
Book Synopsis Benedict Arnold's Army by : Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Download or read book Benedict Arnold's Army written by Arthur S. Lefkowitz and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “brilliant” account of Benedict Arnold’s military campaign to bring Canada into the Revolutionary War is “hard to put down”—includes maps (Mag Web). In 1775, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand men through the Maine wilderness in order to reach Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada. His goal was to reach the fortress city and bring Canada into the Revolutionary War as the fourteenth colony. When George Washington learned of a route to Quebec that followed a chain of rivers and lakes through the Maine wilderness, he picked Col. Benedict Arnold to command the surprise assault. The route to Canada was 270 miles of rapids, waterfalls, and dense forests that took months to traverse. Arnold led his famished corps through early winter snow and waist-high freezing water, up and over the Appalachian Mountains, and finally, to Quebec. In Benedict Arnold’s Army, award-winning author Arthur S. Lefkowitz traces the troops’ grueling journey, examining Arnold’s character at the time and how this campaign influenced him later in the Revolutionary War. After multiple trips to the route Arnold’s army took, Lefkowitz also includes detailed information and maps for readers to follow the expedition’s route from the coast of Main to Quebec City.
Book Synopsis Ships and Seamen of the American Revolution by : Jack Coggins
Download or read book Ships and Seamen of the American Revolution written by Jack Coggins and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully researched account of a lesser-known but vital aspect of the American war for independence chronicles exciting ship-to-ship battles, Benedict Arnold's efforts to build a fleet in Lake Champlain, the harassment of British ships by privateers, David Bushnell's "sub-marine" vessel and floating mines, uniforms, and much more. More than 150 black-and-white illustrations.
Book Synopsis US Submarines 1941–45 by : Jim Christley
Download or read book US Submarines 1941–45 written by Jim Christley and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval warfare in the Pacific changed completely with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The strategic emphasis shifted from battleships to much more lethal, far-ranging weapons systems; one of these was the submarine. This book details the design and development, classes, weapons and equipment, tactics and operational history of the US submarine in World War II. Detailed tables, photographs, and superb color plates depict the force that had an effect far beyond its size - the submarine accounted for 55% of all Japanese shipping losses, despite suffering the highest percentage loss of any unit of the United State Armed Forces in World War II.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Submarine by : Farnham Bishop
Download or read book The Story of the Submarine written by Farnham Bishop and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Story of the Submarine by Farnham Bishop
Book Synopsis Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr by : Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Download or read book Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr written by Arthur S. Lefkowitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final meeting of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr took place in in 1804. It ended with Burr mortally wounding Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton and Burr first met in 1776, during the American Revolution. Their wartime experiences would shape their lives as Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr recounts. They were both young American officers at the time working to defend New York City against a British attack. Burr was a tough Revolutionary War combat veteran, having fought in the 1775 campaign to seize Canada from the British. In Canada, Burr battled alongside then Colonel Benedict Arnold and attacked the walled city of Quebec with General Richard Montgomery. Burr next accepted an invitation to join Washington’s headquarters staff. This book includes an account of Captain Burr’s brief tenure on the job that led to a lifelong animosity between him and Washington. In 1776, Hamilton was a captain and commander of a New York State artillery company. He leveled his cannons at the British at New York City, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton before joining Washington’s headquarters staff. Both Hamilton and Burr wintered at Valley Forge and fought in the day-long Battle of Monmouth. After recounting the Revolutionary War exploits of Hamilton and Burr, this book then describes their postwar lives and political rivalry and why Washington told then President John Adams in 1798 that Hamilton was his principal aide de camp. Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr is a fresh approach to the American Revolution from the standpoint of two of its most interesting participants.
Book Synopsis David Bushnell and His American Turtle by :
Download or read book David Bushnell and His American Turtle written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chaining the Hudson by : Lincoln Diamant
Download or read book Chaining the Hudson written by Lincoln Diamant and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the Revolutionary War took was fought along the Hudson River-which for five years was successfully blockaded by American forces by means of a massive chain across the river at West Point. Here is this important story, vividly and dramatically told, from logs, diaries, letters, and with many rare illustrations. "In an almost magical sense the reader is drawn back to the time when the country drew its first breath."-The New York Times "Brings to life an extraordinary chapter of the Revolution."-Washington Post "[The] best account to date of the Revolutionary War activity in the Valley."-Hudson Valley Regional Review "Meticulously researched. Reads like good historical fiction."-American History
Book Synopsis Submarine Fighter of the American Revolution: the Story of David Bushnell by : Frederick Wagner
Download or read book Submarine Fighter of the American Revolution: the Story of David Bushnell written by Frederick Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-length portrait of the father of submarine warfare takes Bushnell from Connecticut farm, through Yale, to the building of the Turtle and her perilous missions. It tells how his underwater mines touched off the Battle of the Kegs, of his capture by the British, and how Washington, Franklin, Nathan Hale, Benedict Arnold figured prominently in his activities. Based on original research, it also sheds new light on Bushnell's mysterious disappearance at the end of the war.
