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Author : Juliet Cox Coleman
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book John Laurens, Envoy to Paris written by Juliet Cox Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429907991
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book A Great Improvisation written by Stacy Schiff and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a streaming series ● In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin--seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French--convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. When Franklin stepped onto French soil, he well understood he was embarking on the greatest gamble of his career. By virtue of fame, charisma, and ingenuity, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies, French informers, and hostile colleagues; engineered the Franco-American alliance of 1778; and helped to negotiate the peace of 1783. The eight-year French mission stands not only as Franklin's most vital service to his country but as the most revealing of the man. In A Great Improvisation, Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. From these pages emerge a particularly human and yet fiercely determined Founding Father, as well as a profound sense of how fragile, improvisational, and international was our country's bid for independence.
Author : United States. Department of State
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Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of State
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 788 pages
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Download or read book Harper's Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Wharton
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Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the U. S. written by Francis Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence from the records of the Department of State, from family archives and from published memoirs. Designed to correct, complete and enlarge the Diplomatic correspondence of the American Revolution, Boston, 1829-1830, published by Jared Sparks under the direction of Congress.
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Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1596980303
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written as a guide for his son, Benjamin Franklin discusses his life, accomplishments, and ideas.
Author : American Philosophical Society
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Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Record of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin written by American Philosophical Society and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Laurens
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book John Laurens Papers written by John Laurens and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters, 1774-1828, re his activities during the Revolutionary War, with letters to Gen, Mordecai Gist, Peter Manigault, Henry Laurens, and Benjamin Lincoln, and biographical sketch from "The souvenir."
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Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book State written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Laurens
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Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Letter of John Laurens, November, 1777 written by John Laurens and published by . This book was released on 1941* with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Skousen
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0895260336
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (952 download)
Download or read book The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Mark Skousen and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lifelong scholar of Benjamin Franklin's life completes the unfinished "Autobiography" with information on Franklin's attitudes about such topics as the Constitutional Convention, slavery, and Thomas Jefferson.
Author : Simon P. Newman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081393477X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions written by Simon P. Newman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent service with the Continental Army, his publication of The American Crisis (1776–83), and his work with Pennsylvania’s revolutionary government consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost radicals of the Revolution. Thereafter, Paine spent almost fifteen years in Europe, where he was actively involved in the French Revolution, articulating his radical social, economic, and political vision in major publications such as The Rights of Man (1791), The Age of Reason (1793-1807), and Agrarian Justice (1797). Such radicalism was deemed a danger to the state in his native Britain, where Paine was found guilty of sedition, and even in the United States some of Paine’s later publications lost him a great deal of his early popularity. Yet despite this legacy, historians have paid less attention to Paine than to other leading Patriots such as Thomas Jefferson. In Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions, editors Simon Newman and Peter Onuf present a collection of essays that examine how the reputations of two figures whose outlooks were so similar have had such different trajectories.
Author : Tom Shachtman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250080878
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book How the French Saved America written by Tom Shachtman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America. To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even before the Declaration of Independence was issued, King Louis XVI and French foreign minister Vergennes were aiding the rebels. After the Declaration, that assistance broadened to include wages for our troops; guns, cannon, and ammunition; engineering expertise that enabled victories and prevented defeats; diplomatic recognition; safe havens for privateers; battlefield leadership by veteran officers; and the army and fleet that made possible the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. Nearly ten percent of those who fought and died for the American cause were French. Those who fought and survived, in addition to the well-known Lafayette and Rochambeau, include François de Fleury, who won a Congressional Medal for valor, Louis Duportail, who founded the Army Corps of Engineers, and Admiral de Grasse, whose sea victory sealed the fate of Yorktown. This illuminating narrative history vividly captures the outsize characters of our European brothers, their battlefield and diplomatic bonds and clashes with Americans, and the monumental role they played in America’s fight for independence and democracy.
Author : John Ferling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635572770
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Winning Independence written by John Ferling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-Winner of the 2022 Harry M. Ward Book Prize From celebrated historian John Ferling, the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of fighting, American independence often seemed beyond reach. It was 1778, and the recent American victory at Saratoga had netted the U.S a powerful ally in France. Many, including General George Washington, presumed France's entrance into the war meant independence was just around the corner. Meanwhile, having lost an entire army at Saratoga, Great Britain pivoted to a “southern strategy.” The army would henceforth seek to regain its southern colonies, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, a highly profitable segment of its pre-war American empire. Deep into 1780 Britain's new approach seemed headed for success as the U.S. economy collapsed and morale on the home front waned. By early 1781, Washington, and others, feared that France would drop out of the war if the Allies failed to score a decisive victory that year. Sir Henry Clinton, commander of Britain's army, thought “the rebellion is near its end.” Washington, who had been so optimistic in 1778, despaired: “I have almost ceased to hope.” Winning Independence is the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain-so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation ultimately failed to win the war. The book explores the choices and decisions made by Clinton and Washington, and others, that ultimately led the French and American allies to clinch the pivotal victory at Yorktown that at long last secured American independence.
Author : United States. Department of State
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Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
