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The Last Patriot The Life And Times Of A Reluctant Hero Mistakenly Viewed As A Traitor
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Book Synopsis The Last Patriot: The Life and Times of a Reluctant Hero Mistakenly Viewed as a Traitor by : Tom Scanlon
Download or read book The Last Patriot: The Life and Times of a Reluctant Hero Mistakenly Viewed as a Traitor written by Tom Scanlon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Benedict Arnold by : Dr. Walter L. Powell
Download or read book Benedict Arnold written by Dr. Walter L. Powell and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Revolutionary War patriot that turned traitor and fought for the British against the colonists.
Book Synopsis Benedict Arnold by : Willard Sterne Randall
Download or read book Benedict Arnold written by Willard Sterne Randall and published by New York : Morrow. This book was released on 1990 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the career of Benedict Arnold as patriot and soldier and his treasonous decision and betrayal during the Revolutionary War.
Download or read book Benedict Arnold written by Pamela Dell and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life of the man who betrayed his country and became known as a traitor.
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Book Synopsis The Patriot Traitor: the Life and Legacy of Benedict Arnold by : Charles River Charles River Editors
Download or read book The Patriot Traitor: the Life and Legacy of Benedict Arnold written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Explains Arnold's achievements for the Americans, his treason, and how he has been remembered. *Includes pictures of Arnold and important people, places, and events in his life. "Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them." - Benedict Arnold On October 7, 1777, Benedict Arnold rode out against orders and led an American assault against British forces led by General John Burgoyne in one of the climactic battles of the Revolution at Saratoga, the ultimate turning point of the war. Near the end of the most important American victory of the Revolution, Arnold's leg was shattered by a volley that also hit his horse, which fell on the leg as well. Arnold would later remark that he wish the shot had hit him in the chest. If it had, Benedict Arnold would be remembered as one of America's greatest war heroes, and probably second only to George Washington among the generals of the Revolution. In fact, when Arnold was injured at the height of his success in October 1777, he had been the most successful leader of American forces during the war. Arnold had been instrumental in the seizure of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775, he constructed the first makeshift American navy to defend Lake Champlain and delay British campaigning in 1776, and he was the principal leader at Saratoga in 1777. Even his unsuccessful campaign to Quebec in the winter of 1775 is remembered primarily for the amazing logistical feats undertaken by Arnold and his men to even reach the target. History has accorded Arnold his fair share of credit for the fighting he participated in from 1775-1777. The problem is his contemporaries did not. Arnold was better on the field than any other American general in those years, but his mercurial personality rubbed some the wrong way, and other self-promoting generals, from Ethan Allen to Horatio Gates, credited themselves with success at Arnold's expense. Meanwhile, the Second Continental Congress frequently if inadvertently slighted Arnold, failing to duly promote him in a timely fashion and failing to pay him four years of back pay even as he spent his own private fortune training, equipping, and feeding his army and navy. Historian William Sterne Randall estimates Congress shorted Arnold out of the equivalent of $275,000. Today, of course, all of that has been overshadowed by Arnold's treacherous plot to turn over West Point to the British in 1780. The infamous plot came about while Arnold convalesced as the military governor in Philadelphia, where he met and married the Tory-affiliated Peggy Shippen. Arnold grew more concerned about the patriot cause, and combined with the perceived insults, exposure to Loyalist leanings, and another Congressional rebuke for living extravagantly in Philadelphia, Arnold decided to secretly offer his services to the British. As every American knows, Arnold's plot was uncovered, and he barely escaped to the British side, where he was just as distrusted and nearly as despised. Though he would serve as a brigadier-general for the British through the end of the war, his personal fortune and reputation were permanently tarnished. The man who could have been one of his country's greatest heroes became its most despised traitor. The Patriot Traitor: The Life and Legacy of Benedict Arnold chronicles Arnold's life and military career, but it also humanizes the man and offers an objective look at Arnold's treachery and plot in an effort to separate fact from legend. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events in his life, you will learn about Arnold like you never have before, in no time at all.
Book Synopsis Forgotten Patriot by : Lee P. Anderson
Download or read book Forgotten Patriot written by Lee P. Anderson and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Biography of one of Americas first hero's. Nathanael Greene was a Quaker from Rhode Island who abandoned his religious upbringing and strived to learn more than only what he found in his own backyard. Educated by some of the greatest minds of the late eighteenth century, as well as be self-taught, Nathanael Greene became a master of human nature, politics and military tactics. As a young man he served in the Rhode Island Assembly prior to the Revolutionary War and with a fever pitched love of freedom, soon joined the members of the Sons of Liberty in their quest for independence from their oppressor, England. With the onset of the Revolutionary War, Greene joined the militia as a private and rocketed to the rank of Brigadier General in less than a year. He soon would be George Washington's most trusted general and the most dreaded foe the British would face in the war. Contrary to what is in most history books, the war did not end in 1781, and Greene was alone in the American struggle to oust the British from our shores. For two years, Greene fought a bitterly contested war in the Southern States and ultimately emerged victorious. Denouncing the call of his fellow countrymen to enter politics, Nathanael Greene chose instead to settle down with his family and live the life of a gentleman farmer on his plantation in Georgia. The service and devotion Greene gave to his country has never been recognized and is long overdue. This author intends to rectify that situation.
Book Synopsis Benedict Arnold, Patriot and Traitor by : Oscar Sherwin
Download or read book Benedict Arnold, Patriot and Traitor written by Oscar Sherwin and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Congressional Globe by : United States. Congress
Download or read book The Congressional Globe written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Patriot Witch written by C. C. Finlay and published by Random House LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proctor Brown uses his witch abilities to aid the rebel cause as the American Revolution begins, struggling to hide his supernatural skills from those who would kill him because of them as he uses them against opposing witches.
Book Synopsis Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by : Frederick Douglass
Download or read book Life and Times of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
Download or read book Driven Patriot written by Townsend Hoopes and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the mid-twentieth century, this biography takes a penetrating look at James Forrestal's life and work. Brilliant, ambitious, glamorous, yet a perpetual outsider, Forrestal forged a career that took him from his working-class origins to the social and financial stratosphere of Wall Street, and from there to policy making in Washington. As secretary of the navy during World War II, he was the principal architect in transforming an obsolescent navy into the largest, most formidable naval force in history. After the war, as the nation's first secretary of defense, he played a major role in shaping the anti-Communist consensus that sustained the U.S. policy of containment during the Cold War. Despite his many achievements, Forrestal's life ended in tragedy with his suicide in 1949. This absorbing study not only takes an understanding look at the many-sided man but presents an authoritative history of the great but troubled years of America's rise to world primacy. Winner of the 1992 Roosevelt Naval History Prize, the book enjoyed wide acclaim when first published and is now considered a definitive work.
Download or read book The Chartist Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal by :
Download or read book The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chartist circular, ed. by W. Thomson by : Universal suffrage central committee for Scotland
Download or read book The Chartist circular, ed. by W. Thomson written by Universal suffrage central committee for Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero by : James K. Martin
Download or read book Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero written by James K. Martin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict Arnold stands as one of the most vilified figures in American history. Stories of his treason have so come to define him that his name, like that of Judas, is virtually synonymous with treason. Yet Arnold was one of the most heroic and remarkable men of his time, indeed in all of American history. A brilliant military leader of uncommon bravery, Arnold dedicated himself to the Revolutionary cause, sacrificing family life, health, and financial well-being for a conflict that left him physically crippled, sullied by false accusations, and profoundly alienated from the American cause of liberty. By viewing Arnold's life backward through the prism of his treason, we invariably succumb to the demonizations that arose only after his abandonment of the rebel forces. We thereby overlook his critical role as one of the influential actors in the American Revolution. Distinguished historian James Kirby Martin's landmark biography, the result of a decade's labor, stands as an invaluable antidote to this historical distortion. Careful not to endow the Revolutionary generation with mythical proportions of virtue, Martin shows how self-serving, venal behavior was just as common in the Revolutionary era as in our own time. Arnold, a deeply committed patriot, suffered acutely because of his lack of political savvy in dealing with those who attacked his honor and reputation. Tracing Arnold's life, from his difficult childhood through his grueling winter trek across the howling Maine wilderness, his valiant defense of Lake Champlain, and his crucial role in the Quebec and Saratoga campaigns, Martin has given us an entirely new perspective on this dramatic and exceptional life, set against the tumultuous background of the American Revolution.
Book Synopsis Permanent Record by : Edward Snowden
Download or read book Permanent Record written by Edward Snowden and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
Book Synopsis A Patriot's History of the United States by : Larry Schweikart
Download or read book A Patriot's History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
