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Book Synopsis Revolutionaries, Rebels and Rogues of Rhode Island by : M.E. Reilly-McGreen
Download or read book Revolutionaries, Rebels and Rogues of Rhode Island written by M.E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but it has the tallest tales. It's home to many larger-than-life men with exciting stories of mutiny, revolt and daring. Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft tries to escape the grasp of the demonic "Night-Gaunts" that haunt him. Captain William Kidd, convicted of piracy and murder, is hung and left to rot as a warning for others pursuing a similar career path. And Samuel Slater, Father of the Industrial Revolution, may be a revolutionary in our eyes, but he is considered a treasonous rogue by the English. Travel with M.E. Reilly-McGreen as she follows up her book Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of Rhode Island with tales of the best and worst men The Ocean State has to offer.
Book Synopsis Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island by : M. E. Reilly-McGreen
Download or read book Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island written by M. E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the most fearsome and fascinating women to ever live in the Ocean State in this collection of wild historical profiles. In Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island, local historian M.E. Reilly-McGreen reveals true tales of women who caused scandals in their day. It’s a compendium of rebellious deeds, outlandish gossip, and superstition run amok. Mercy Brown was a nineteen-year-old consumption victim thought to be a vampire. Locals were so afraid of Mercy that her body was exhumed to perform a ritual banishment of the undead. Goody Seager was accused of infesting her neighbor’s cheese with maggots by using witchcraft. According to legend, Tall “Dutch” Kattern was an opium-eating fortuneteller whose curse set a ship aflame after its crew cast her ashore. Along with these tales, you’ll read of revolutionaries, like Julia Ward Howe, who invented Mother’s Day; and religious reformers like Anne Hutchinson, said to be the inspiration for Hawthorne's heroine in The Scarlet Letter; and many others.
Book Synopsis Rhode Island in the Rebellion by : Edwin Winchester Stone
Download or read book Rhode Island in the Rebellion written by Edwin Winchester Stone and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis RHODE ISLAND IN THE REBELLION by : Edwin Winchester Stone
Download or read book RHODE ISLAND IN THE REBELLION written by Edwin Winchester Stone and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Personal Narratives of Events in the War of the Rebellion by : Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society
Download or read book Personal Narratives of Events in the War of the Rebellion written by Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rhode Island Legends by : M. E. Reilly-McGreen
Download or read book Rhode Island Legends written by M. E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical tour of the Ocean State’s spookiest sites, with photos included! Rhode Island’s ghostly heritage is as deep and profound as the history of the state itself. From the ghastly moaning bones of Mount Tom to the stately haunt of Judge Potter in a local library, Rhode Island’s apparitions have been causing fear for centuries. Follow M.E. Reilly-McGreen as she reveals the ghoulish stories of the state’s most haunted places. The author delves deep to unearth both little-known tales and those that have helped define the state’s supernatural history. From ghosts to monsters, this book is your guide to all things spooky in Rhode Island.
Book Synopsis Spies in Revolutionary Rhode Island by : Christian M McBurney
Download or read book Spies in Revolutionary Rhode Island written by Christian M McBurney and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of espionage in Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War. Espionage played a vital role during the American Revolution in Rhode Island. The British and Americans each employed spies to discover the secrets, plans and positions of their enemy. Continental navy lieutenant John Trevett dressed as an ordinary sailor, grew out his beard and went from tavern to tavern in Newport gathering intelligence. Metcalf Bowler became a traitor on the order of Benedict Arnold, as he spied for the British while serving as a Patriot leader in Providence. Disguised as a peddler, Ann Bates spied for the British during the Rhode Island Campaign. When caught, one spy paid with his life, while others suffered in jail. Author Christian M. McBurney, for the first time, unravels the world of spies and covert operations in Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War. “McBurney tells a series of fascinating stories about the spies and their families, many of them prominent Newporters, in his book.” —The Newport Daily News “According to . . . McBurney, New York and Pennsylvania may have witnessed more spy activity in the Revolutionary War, but Rhode Island was not that far behind...”no theater of war produced such rich stories of spies and spying as Rhode Island.” That’s a pretty big brag for a state as small as ours, but McBurney does make his case very well. The fact that Newport was a major North American port at the time had a lot to do with that, but there are a few towns around the edges that turned up some surprising tales of intrigue and treason.” —Cranston Herald
Book Synopsis Rhode Island in the Rebellion by : Edwin Winchester Stone
Download or read book Rhode Island in the Rebellion written by Edwin Winchester Stone and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rhode Island in the Rebellion by : Edwin W. Stone
Download or read book Rhode Island in the Rebellion written by Edwin W. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhode Island in the Rebellion
Book Synopsis Rhode Island in the Rebellion (Classic Reprint) by : Edwin Winchester Stone
Download or read book Rhode Island in the Rebellion (Classic Reprint) written by Edwin Winchester Stone and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rhode Island in the Rebellion A long preface is seldom read, and this shall be brief. It is right that the reader should know how the following letters came to be in print. The responsibility of the deed is less with the author than with many partial friends. They were written amid camp scenes and on the march, under circumstances unfavorable to literary composition, and were intended for private perusal alone. Portions of them appeared in the Providence Journal, and were received with a favor alike unexpected and gratifying. Numerous requests having been made that they should be gathered up as a Rhode Island contribution to the history of the War of the Rebellion, the author, with unaffected distrust of himself, has yielded to the judgment of others. At first, he designed to recast his correspondence, and give it the graver form of historic narrative, but time forbidding, he has exscinded unessential portions, added to it from parts "contraband" to the public at their date, and in notes drawn from official and other reliable sources, has given particulars of movements of which he was not an eye-witness. In the introduction is noted some points of great importance, viewed in their relations to subsequent events. In the Appendix will be found sketches of the Rhode Island infantry and cavalry regiments and batteries, besides other information that may hereafter be convenient for reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Path written by Lars D. H. Hedbor and published by Brief Candle Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Came to Fight For Liberty For All Yves de Bourganes just wanted to make some money to support his widowed mother as she tried to keep the family farm afloat. He wouldn't have minded some adventure, too. He didn't expect to be sent to fight in a war between France's constant nemesis Great Britain and her boisterous American colonies across the treacherous sea. When he arrives, he meets Amalie, a slave girl with a difficult past, and his fate changes entirely, as he learns that some paths lead to unexpected destinations. The Path is Hedbor’s Rhode-Island novel from his Tales From a Revolution series, in which each standalone novel examines the American War of Independence as it unfolded in a different colony. If you like stirring stories of the people who didn't quite make it into the pages of history, you'll love The Path. Buy The Path today and see how the American Revolution’s road to freedom was sometimes far from smooth!
Download or read book The Dorr War written by Rory Raven and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the bloody conflict that erupted in 1841 Rhode Island over allowing non-property owners to vote. The portly Rhode Island aristocrat was hardly the image of the people’s champion—but in 1841, Thomas Dorr became just that. At a time when only white male landowners could vote, the idealistic Dorr envisioned a more democratic state. In October of that year, the People’s Convention ratified a new constitution that extended voting rights to those without land, and Dorr was named governor. That act would spark a small civil war, and violence erupted as the people of the state stood sharply divided in a conflict that reached the president and United States Supreme Court. Author Rory Raven charts the tumultuous and ultimately tragic history of a man and a movement that were too far ahead of their time.
Book Synopsis The Banisters of Rhode Island in the American Revolution by : Marian Mathison Desrosiers
Download or read book The Banisters of Rhode Island in the American Revolution written by Marian Mathison Desrosiers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Thomas Banister fought for the British during the American Revolution, his farm and business were confiscated. He was exiled in far-off Nova Scotia, before he returned to a secluded life on Long Island. His older brother, John Banister married with a child, swore allegiance to the United Colonies, then witnessed the destruction of his Newport lands by the British Army. Convinced British laws supported remuneration, John left for England, where he sought justice for four years. His wife, Christian Stelle Banister, managed the family property and raised their son while the state threatened confiscation and the French Army lived in Newport. Tracing the lives of three young Americans during the Revolution, this study of the Banister family of Rhode Island contributes to an understanding of the war's effects on the lives of ordinary people.
Book Synopsis Redcoats and Rebels by : Christopher Hibbert
Download or read book Redcoats and Rebels written by Christopher Hibbert and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-scale popular history of the American War of Independence.
Book Synopsis The Rogue Republic by : William C. Davis
Download or read book The Rogue Republic written by William C. Davis and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of the West Florida Revolt: “One rollicking good book.” —Jay Winik When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida—what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe’s endless territorial contests. So it was left to the settlers, bristling at Spanish misrule, to establish a foothold in the area. Enter the Kemper brothers, whose vigilante justice culminated in a small band of American residents drafting a constitution and establishing a new government. By the time President Madison sent troops to occupy the territory, assert US authority under the Louisiana Purchase, and restore order, West Florida’s settlers had already announced their independence, becoming our country’s shortest-lived rogue “republic.” Meticulously researched and populated with some of American history’s most colorful and little-known characters, this is the story of a young country testing its power on the global stage, as well as an examination of how the frontier spirit came to define the nation’s character. The Rogue Republic shows how hardscrabble frontiersmen and gentleman farmers planted the seeds of civil war, marked the dawn of Manifest Destiny, and laid the groundwork for the American empire. “A significant study of an obscure but highly revealing moment in American history . . . Not only does Davis cast a bright light into these murky corners of our national past, he does so with a grace and clarity equal to the best historical writing today.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A well-documented account of ‘America’s second and smallest rebellion,’ led by a simple storekeeper named Reuben Kemper . . . Davis tells this story with nuance and panache.” —Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis "With Their Usual Ardor" by : Robert Grandchamp
Download or read book "With Their Usual Ardor" written by Robert Grandchamp and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scituate Militia saved Providence from capture in December 1775; helped drive the British out of Narragansett Bay in 1776, and faced the enemy in their own state in 1778. Scituate also contributed over one hundred men to the Continental Army. G4091HB - $18.00
Book Synopsis Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island by : Edward Field
Download or read book Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island written by Edward Field and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
