George Washington, Frontiersman
Author: Zane Grey
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-02-18
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780812579239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story from Washington's birth to the time he takes command of the Continental Army.
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Author: Zane Grey
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-02-18
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780812579239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story from Washington's birth to the time he takes command of the Continental Army.
Author: Sterling North
Publisher: Young Voyageur
Published: 2016-10-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1627889779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe early life of George Washington in a new, illustrated edition of the classic biography by Sterling North. Before he became the first president of the United States, George Washington was a frontiersman. North fully captures the spirit of the man as he examines Washington's childhood in colonial Virginia, his work as a teenage surveyor, his early experiences as a member of the Virginia militia, and his many adventures before the American Revolution. The fully rounded man who emerges from this captivating portrait is uncomfortable with words, shy around women, completely at home in the outdoors, and deeply in love with the country he helped found.
Author: Phyllis J. Ford
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Florence Eilau Bamberger
Publisher:
Published: 1931
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Washington
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780742533721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"George Washington Remembers makes this very personal and little-known document available for the first time and offers a glimpse of Washington in a self-reflective mood - a side of the man seldom seen in his other writings.
Author: S. North
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Published: 1964-10-01
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ISBN-13: 9780394903712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joel Achenbach
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2005-06-02
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780743263009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Grand Idea follows George Washington in the critical period immediately after the War of Independence. The general had great hopes for his young nation, but also grave fears. He worried that the United States was so fragmented politically and culturally that it would fall apart, and that the "West," beyond the Appalachian mountains, would become a breakaway republic. So he came up with an ambitious scheme: He would transform the Potomac River into the nation's premier commercial artery, binding East and West, bolstering domestic trade, and staving off disunion. This was no armchair notion. Washington saddled up and rode west on a 680-mile trek to the raucous frontier of America. Achenbach captures a Washington rarely seen: rugged frontiersman, real estate speculator, shrewd businessman. Even after his death, Washington's grand ambition inspired heroic engineering feats, including an audacious attempt to build a canal across the mountains to the Ohio River. But the country needed more than commercial arteries to hold together, and in the Civil War, the general's beloved river became a battlefield between North and South. Like such classics as Undaunted Courage and Founding Brothers, Achenbach's riveting portrait of a great man and his grand plan captures the imagination of the new country, the passions of an ambitious people, and the seemingly endless beauty of the American landscape.
Author: Paul R. Misencik
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2022-03-16
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1476645876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Gist is a great American hero who has often gone unnoticed. Recognized for giving colonists the first detailed description of the Ohio Country, Gist was a close friend of George Washington, whom he met through their affiliation with the Ohio Company. In 1753, the two went on an arduous trek through the western Pennsylvania wilderness in the dead of winter to deliver a message to the French commander on the upper Allegheny River. Gist had a profound impact on Washington and saved the future president's life on at least two occasions during their mission. Despite Gist's impressive achievements, historians have largely overlooked him. This book extensively details his remarkable accomplishments in frontier exploration and military service.
Author: Edward G. Lengel
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2007-01-09
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0812969502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The most comprehensive and authoritative study of Washington’s military career ever written.” –Joseph J. Ellis, author of His Excellency: George Washington Based largely on George Washington’s personal papers, this engrossing book paints a vivid, factual portrait of Washington the soldier. An expert in military history, Edward Lengel demonstrates that the “secret” to Washington’s excellence lay in his completeness, in how he united the military, political, and personal skills necessary to lead a nation in war and peace. Despite being an “imperfect commander”–and at times even a tactically suspect one–Washington nevertheless possessed the requisite combination of vision, integrity, talents, and good fortune to lead America to victory in its war for independence. At once informative and engaging, and filled with some eye-opening revelations about Washington, the American Revolution, and the very nature of military command, General George Washington is a book that reintroduces readers to a figure many think they already know. “The book’s balanced assessment of Washington is satisfying and thought-provoking. Lengel gives us a believable Washington . . . the most admired man of his generation by far.” –The Washington Post Book World “A compelling picture of a man who was ‘the archetypal American soldier’ . . . The sum of his parts was the greatness of Washington.” –The Boston Globe “[An] excellent book . . . fresh insights . . . If you have room on your bookshelf for only one book on the Revolution, this may be it.” –The Washington Times
Author: Edwin Legrand Sabin
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 324
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