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The Chevalier Anne Cesar De La Luzerne French Minister To The United States 1779 1784
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Book Synopsis The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784: February 7-July 31, 1781 by : Robert Morris
Download or read book The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784: February 7-July 31, 1781 written by Robert Morris and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.
Book Synopsis The Chevalier de La Luzerne by : William Emmett O'Donnell
Download or read book The Chevalier de La Luzerne written by William Emmett O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Emerging Nation: Recognition of independence, 1780-1784 by : Mary A. Giunta
Download or read book The Emerging Nation: Recognition of independence, 1780-1784 written by Mary A. Giunta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of diplomatic dispatches, treaties, private letters, and other documents providing insight into the beginnings of United States foreign policy.
Book Synopsis John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784-1826 (LOA #276) by : John Adams
Download or read book John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784-1826 (LOA #276) written by John Adams and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 1257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon S. Wood presents the final chapter in his definitive three-volume edition of the writings of a great American Founder and president A powerful polemicist, insightful political theorist, and tireless diplomat, John Adams (1735–1826) was a vital and controversial figure during the early years of the American republic. Once overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson, Adams has become the subject of renewed interest, with a best-selling biography and acclaimed television series reintroducing him to millions. Now, this final volume of a comprehensive three-volume edition makes his important writings from the early national period broadly available to general readers. Bringing together letters, diary excerpts, political essays, speeches, and presidential messages, Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826 illuminates Adams's service as a diplomat in the Netherlands and England; his eight years as vice president under Washington; and his tumultuous single term as president. The first person to win a contested presidential election and then to be defeated for reelection, Adams faced bitter criticism from both Jeffersonian Republicans and Hamiltonian Federalists while striving to prevent an undeclared naval conflict with Revolutionary France from escalating into full-scale war. Selections from A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787–88) and Discourses on Davila (1790–91) demonstrate his insights into the strengths and weaknesses of ancient and modern political systems, while letters to his wife and children illuminate the passionate and mercurial personality of one of our most fascinating Founders. This volume is published simultaneously with Abigail Adams: Letters, the first comprehensive collection of the extraordinary correspondence of Adams's wife and key advisor. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis Adams Family Correspondence by : Lyman Henry Butterfield
Download or read book Adams Family Correspondence written by Lyman Henry Butterfield and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters exchanged by members of the Adams family through three full generations and part of a fourth beginning with the courtship of John Adams and Abigail Smith and ending with the death of Abigail Brooks Adams, wife of the first Charles Francis Adams, United States minister to London during the American Civil War.
Book Synopsis The Emerging Nation: Toward federal diplomacy, 1780-1789 by : Mary A. Giunta
Download or read book The Emerging Nation: Toward federal diplomacy, 1780-1789 written by Mary A. Giunta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Documents of the Emerging Nation by : Mary A. Giunta
Download or read book Documents of the Emerging Nation written by Mary A. Giunta and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents of the Emerging Nation traces the efforts of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and others to establish a credible international presence of the country as a new nation. Diplomatic despatches, private letters, and other documents from archives, libraries, and historical societies-including the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and French and British sources-reveal events in the formative years of U.S. diplomacy.
Book Synopsis Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6 by : Adams Family
Download or read book Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6 written by Adams Family and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I cannot O! I cannot be reconciled to living as I have done for 3 years past... Will you let me try to soften, if I cannot wholy) releave you, from your Burden of Cares and perplexities?'' So begins Abigail Adams' correspondence to her husband in these volumes: a plea to end their long separation, as John Adams represented the United States in Europe while Abigail tended to family and farm in Massachusetts, and passed on to John Crucial political information from Congress. In October 1782, the Adams family was as widely scattered as it would ever be, with young John Quincy Adams in St. Petersburg, John at The Hague, and Abigail in Braintree with her daughter and younger sons. With the summer of 1784, however, Abigail would have her fondest wish, as most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. As the Adams family traveled, and as the children came of age, so their correspondence expanded to include an ever larger and more fascinating range of Cultural topics and international figures. The record of this remarkable expansion, these volumes document John Adams' diplomatic triumphs, his wife and daughter's participation in the cosmopolitan scenes of Paris and London, and his son John Quincy's travels in Europe and America. These pages also welcome Thomas Jefferson, who soon became one of Abigail's closest friends, into the family correspondence. From the intimacies 0f the children's education, sentimental and worldly, to the details of the 'arm friendship between Abigail and Madame Lafayette, to the grand drama of Edmund Burke and William Pitt the Younger debating in Parliament, the contents of these letters draw an incredibly rich picture of international life in the 17805 and an incomparable portrait of America's first family of politics and letters.
Book Synopsis A Great Improvisation by : Stacy Schiff
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.
Book Synopsis The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Major General William Heath by : William Heath
Download or read book The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Major General William Heath written by William Heath and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1798, this Revolutionary War memoir is one of the few ever written by a senior Continental Army commander. It provides a unique glimpse into the administrative operations and inner workings of the army during the American Revolution. Major General William Heath offers rare insights on the war's major military personalities on both the American and British sides. Of particular interest are his wartime interactions with British generals John Burgoyne and William Phillips, as well as Continental Army generals such as George Washington and Charles Lee. Heath's memoir also gives readers a detailed look at the constant struggles faced by the army, including food, supply, personnel and funding shortages, and presents an almost daily chronicle of the tribulations and successes experienced by patriot forces during the war.
Book Synopsis John Paul Jones' Memoir of the American Revolution by : John Paul Jones
Download or read book John Paul Jones' Memoir of the American Revolution written by John Paul Jones and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolutionary career of John Paul Jones, which is the subject of this memoir, needs no elaboration here. His voyages, first on the Alfred under Capt. Dudley Saltonstall, and later at the helm of the sloops Providence, Ranger and Ariel, the old East Indiaman Duras (renamed the Bonhomme Richard), and the American-built frigate Alliance are thoroughly recounted here. What is generally not known, however, is the commodore's post-revolutionary war career. Having made numerous inveterate enemies during the course of the war, both in and out of Congress, Jones had little chance of gaining flag rank in the American navy. Realizing this, he decided in the spring of 1788 to pursue fame in other waters, first in the service of Louis XVI of France and later under Catherine the Great of Russia. France, unfortunately, was in no position to expand its naval staff, but Catherine, who was in need of good officers to fight in the second Russo-Turkish war, offered him an admiral's commission in the Russian navy, and on May 26, 1788, Rear Admiral Jones raised his flag on the Black Sea. Anyone familiar with the life of John Paul Jones, one of America's most popular naval heroes, would agree that in fighting spirit the commodore was perhaps equal to any officer in the history of the United States Navy. Unquestionably, he was deserving of the belated tribute paid to him by President Theodore Roosevelt on April 24, 1906, at the formal reception at Annapolis of the body of Capt. Paul Jones, as the hero was known at the height of his career. President Roosevelt admonished an audience of naval officers and cadets, statesmen and visiting dignitaries: "Every officer in our Navy should know by heart the deeds of John Paul Jones. Every officer in our Navy should feel in each fiber of his being an eager desire to emulate the energy, the professional capacity, the indomitable determination and dauntless scorn of death which marked John Paul Jones above all his fellows."
Book Synopsis The Order of the Cincinnati in France by : Asa Bird Gardiner
Download or read book The Order of the Cincinnati in France written by Asa Bird Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rochambeau, Washington's Ideal Lieutenant by : Jini Jones Vail
Download or read book Rochambeau, Washington's Ideal Lieutenant written by Jini Jones Vail and published by Word Association Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time and travel with Rochambeau as he rides through the night to the Palace of Versailles, answering a summons from King Louis XVI. Sail with Rochambeau as he and his 42-ship convoy cross the Atlantic on an exhausting 70-day voyage to America. Sit by his side as his carriage travels to meet with George Washington for their first face-to-face conference in Hartford, Connecticut. Enjoy the tension between the two generals as their strategy emerges. Stand beside Rochambeau as he proudly watches his handsome French troops depart from Newport, Rhode Island, to begin their two hundred mile march to join forces with Washington's army above the Hudson. Stand near him in Chester, Pennsylvania, as he watches an overjoyed Washington twirl his hat in the air on hearing that the long-awaited French navy under Admiral De Grasse had arrived in the Chesapeake. Ride at his side in the sweltering sun during the grueling trek from New York to William
Download or read book The Adams papers written by and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Emerging Nation by : Mary A. Giunta
Download or read book The Emerging Nation written by Mary A. Giunta and published by Us Independent Agencies and Commissions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of diplomatic dispatches, treaties, private letters, and other documents providing insight into the beginnings of United States foreign policy.
Book Synopsis The Triumph of Militia Diplomacy by : Mary Briant Foley
Download or read book The Triumph of Militia Diplomacy written by Mary Briant Foley and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Emerging Nation: Trials and tribulations, 1780-1785 by : Mary A. Giunta
Download or read book The Emerging Nation: Trials and tribulations, 1780-1785 written by Mary A. Giunta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
