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Book Synopsis Braddock's Road by : Norman L. Baker
Download or read book Braddock's Road written by Norman L. Baker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1755, Major General Edward Braddock and two army regiments set out from Alexandria with the objective of capturing Fort Duquesne, near present-day Pittsburgh. To transport their sizable train of artillery and wagons, they first had to build a road across the rugged Appalachian Mountains. It was almost 289 treacherous miles from Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Fort Cumberland in Maryland and on to the French fort; the road they built was one of the most impressive military engineering accomplishments of the eighteenth century. Historian Norman L. Baker chronicles the construction of the road and creates the definitive mapping of those sections once thought lost. Join Baker as he charts the history of Braddock's Road until the ultimate catastrophic collision with the combined French and Indian forces.
Book Synopsis Braddock's Defeat by : David Lee Preston
Download or read book Braddock's Defeat written by David Lee Preston and published by Pivotal Moments in American Hi. This book was released on 2015 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio Country. Known as the Battle of the Monongahela, the loss altered the trajectory of the Seven Years' War in America, escalating the fighting and shifting the balance of power. An unprecedented rout of a modern and powerful British army by a predominantly Indian force, Monongahela shocked the colonial world--and also planted the first seeds of an independent American consciousness. The culmination of a failed attempt to capture Fort Duquesne from the French, Braddock's Defeat was a pivotal moment in American and world history. While the defeat is often blamed on blundering and arrogance on the part of General Braddock--who was wounded in battle and died the next day--David Preston's gripping new work argues that such a claim diminishes the victory that Indian and French forces won by their superior discipline and leadership. In fact, the French Canadian officer Captain Beaujeu had greater tactical skill, reconnaissance, and execution, and his Indian allies were the most effective and disciplined troops on the field. Preston also explores the long shadow cast by Braddock's Defeat over the 18th century and the American Revolution two decades later. The campaign had been an awakening to empire for many British Americans, spawning ideas of American identity and anticipating many of the political and social divisions that would erupt with the outbreak of the Revolution. Braddock's Defeat was the defining generational experience for many British and American officers, including Thomas Gage, Horatio Gates, and perhaps most significantly, George Washington. A rich battle history driven by a gripping narrative and an abundance of new evidence,Braddock's Defeat presents the fullest account yet of this defining moment in early American history.
Book Synopsis Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers by : Archer Butler Hulbert
Download or read book Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers written by Archer Butler Hulbert and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 1903 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Braddock Road Chronicles, 1755 by : Andrew J. Wahll
Download or read book Braddock Road Chronicles, 1755 written by Andrew J. Wahll and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1755 Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock was put in charge of constructing a road from the Potomac River at Wills Creek (Cumberland, MD), to Fort Duquesne (present-day Pittsburgh) at the forks of the Ohio River. His object was to take the fort and thereby launch
Book Synopsis Braddock Road by : John Kennedy Lacock
Download or read book Braddock Road written by John Kennedy Lacock and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Book Synopsis Reconsidering Braddock's Road to Martin's by : Lannie Dietle
Download or read book Reconsidering Braddock's Road to Martin's written by Lannie Dietle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few events in America's colonial history have spurred as much interest as English General Edward Braddock's ill-fated expedition from Fort Cumberland in Western Maryland to Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian war in 1755. Famously accompanied by Virginia militia Colonel George Washington, Braddock's forces struggled over a harried and difficult route that has been mapped and studied many times in the centuries since. Early maps exist in the British Archives and major interpretations comparing these maps to features on the ground were written in 1847 and 1908.Despite this intense and continuous study, some questions still remain - including a question raised in this book by history author Lannie Dietle. As in his other works about colonial roads along the Allegheny Front, Mr. Dietle conducted an exhaustive study, not only of Braddock's route, but extensive history of Nemacolin's Trail and the Ohio Company Road through this same region.The fascinating alternative theory presented here involves the route between Braddock's first and second camps, ending with his arrival at a mysterious, now lost, location called Martin's Plantation.This book presents significant and harmonious evidence that Braddock did not turn southwest at the confluence of Porter Run and Braddock Run, but instead followed the existing Ohio Company Road through an area later known as Eckhart Mines. This theory continues, drawn from the same sources, that Martin's Plantation was located west of George's Creek, not to the east of the drainage as previous authors have surmised. The evidence thoughtfully presented here is already stimulating new efforts by other Braddock scholars and hobbyists to begin a new search for evidence on the ground of a more northerly route to Martin's - which could lead to a major revision in this historic narrative of George Washington's only military service with a regular British army unit.
Book Synopsis Historic Highways of America: Braddock's road and three relative papers. 1903 by : Archer Butler Hulbert
Download or read book Historic Highways of America: Braddock's road and three relative papers. 1903 written by Archer Butler Hulbert and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers by : Archer Butler Hulbert
Download or read book Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers written by Archer Butler Hulbert and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Braddock's March by : Thomas E. Crocker
Download or read book Braddock's March written by Thomas E. Crocker and published by Westholme Pub Llc. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crocker tells the riveting story of one of the most important events in colonial America. Braddock's expedition had a profound impact on American political and military developments, laid the foundation for the road for westward expansion, and sowed the seeds of dissent between England and colonies.
Book Synopsis Historic Highways of America ...: Braddock's Road and three relative papers by : Archer Butler Hulbert
Download or read book Historic Highways of America ...: Braddock's Road and three relative papers written by Archer Butler Hulbert and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock by : Winthrop Sargent
Download or read book The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock written by Winthrop Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a history of Braddock's Campaign in 1755 against Fort Duquesne.
Book Synopsis Historic Highways of America: Braddock's road and three relative papers. 1903 by : Archer Butler Hulbert
Download or read book Historic Highways of America: Braddock's road and three relative papers. 1903 written by Archer Butler Hulbert and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers - Historic Highways of America - by : Archer Butler Hulbert
Download or read book Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers - Historic Highways of America - written by Archer Butler Hulbert and published by Lundberg Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...
Book Synopsis Braddock's Defeat by : David L. Preston
Download or read book Braddock's Defeat written by David L. Preston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native American forces shortly after crossing the Monongahela River and while making their way to besiege Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Valley, a few miles from what is now Pittsburgh. The long line of red-coated troops struggled to maintain cohesion and discipline as Indian warriors quickly outflanked them and used the dense cover of the woods to masterful and lethal effect. Within hours, a powerful British army was routed, its commander mortally wounded, and two-thirds of its forces casualties in one the worst disasters in military history. David Preston's gripping and immersive account of Braddock's Defeat, also known as the Battle of the Monongahela, is the most authoritative ever written. Using untapped sources and collections, Preston offers a reinterpretation of Braddock's Expedition in 1754 and 1755, one that does full justice to its remarkable achievements. Braddock had rapidly advanced his army to the cusp of victory, overcoming uncooperative colonial governments and seemingly insurmountable logistical challenges, while managing to carve a road through the formidable Appalachian Mountains. That road would play a major role in America's expansion westward in the years ahead and stand as one of the expedition's most significant legacies. The causes of Braddock's Defeat are debated to this day. Preston's work challenges the stale portrait of an arrogant European officer who refused to adapt to military and political conditions in the New World and the first to show fully how the French and Indian coalition achieved victory through effective diplomacy, tactics, and leadership. New documents reveal that the French Canadian commander, a seasoned veteran named Captain Beaujeu, planned the attack on the British column with great skill, and that his Native allies were more disciplined than the British regulars on the field. Braddock's Defeat establishes beyond question its profoundly pivotal nature for Indian, French Canadian, and British peoples in the eighteenth century. The disaster altered the balance of power in America, and escalated the fighting into a global conflict known as the Seven Years' War. Those who were there, including George Washington, Thomas Gage, Horatio Gates, Charles Lee, and Daniel Morgan, never forgot its lessons, and brought them to bear when they fought again-whether as enemies or allies-two decades hence. The campaign had awakened many British Americans to their provincial status in the empire, spawning ideas of American identity and anticipating the social and political divisions that would erupt in the American Revolution.
Book Synopsis Travels in America Performed in 1806 by : Thomas Ashe
Download or read book Travels in America Performed in 1806 written by Thomas Ashe and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers by : Hulbert Archer Butler
Download or read book Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers written by Hulbert Archer Butler and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis Country Music's Greatest Lines by : Bobby Braddock
Download or read book Country Music's Greatest Lines written by Bobby Braddock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of country music’s greatest songwriters has given us his own private tour of the collective genius of his profession.” —Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and host of the Revisionist History podcast Bobby Braddock, the only living songwriter to have written number-one country songs in five consecutive decades, celebrates standout lines in more than eighty country masterpieces. Unique stories give the reader a behind-the-scenes look at classics from Hank Williams, Bill Anderson, Roger Miller and Merle Haggard, as well as twenty-first-century icons like Alan Jackson, Taylor Swift and Eric Church. Artist Carmen Beecher brings these tales to vivid life with strikingly realistic illustrations of seldom-seen songwriters, easily recognizable superstars and unforgettable song characters. From late 1940s jukebox hits to present-day chart toppers, Braddock and Beecher offer a magical journey from the songwriter’s pen to the singer’s lips to the listener’s ear. “Country Music’s Greatest Lines works as an insider’s take on the business of country, and it also sent me to a dozen records I wanted to hear immediately. Braddock and Beecher evoke the mythology of country without sentimentalizing the music or its creators. It’s a remarkable achievement.” —Nashville Scene “We see how stand-alone powerful and effective a few well-crafted lines can be, even when removed from the context of the entire song.” —Sounds Like Nashville “Country songs, from Hank Williams till today, remain faithful to their tradition of reminding their listeners about the life they live. Braddock, a 60-year creator of songs, remembered that when he decided to write this book.” —American Songwriter
