Silver for General Washington
Author: Enid La Monte Meadowcroft
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA twelve year old boy participates in the battle of Valley Forge in the Revolutionary War.
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Author: Enid La Monte Meadowcroft
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA twelve year old boy participates in the battle of Valley Forge in the Revolutionary War.
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: Seymour Reit
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780152164355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeymour Reit re-creates the true story of Will Knox, a nineteen-year-old boy who undertook the daring and dangerous task of transporting 183 cannons from New York's Fort Ticonderoga to Boston--in the dead of winter--to help George Washington win an important battle.
Author: Enid La Monte Meadowcroft
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan Heilbroner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2001-01-02
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 0375803971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Washington grew up in the English colony of Virginia. He was tall and strong, fair in judgment, and respected by his friends as a good leader. As he grew older, George saw how England took advantage of the American colonies—and he didn't like it. When the colonies declared their independence, George was chosen to lead their army as its general. And when the colonies won their freedom, George was elected to lead the new nation as its first president.
Author: John Marshall
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Published: 1805
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Washington
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 754
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased almost entirely on materials reproduced from: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 / John C. Fitzpatrick, editor. Includes indexes.
Author: Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft
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Total Pages: 247
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Erik Goldstein
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Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781931464710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert L. O'Connell
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 081299700X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, defined the American character How did George Washington become an American icon? Robert L. O’Connell, the New York Times bestselling author of Fierce Patriot and The Ghosts of Cannae, introduces us to Washington before he was Washington: a young soldier champing at the bit for a commission in the British army, frustrated by his position as a minor Virginia aristocrat. Fueled by ego, Washington led a disastrous expedition in the Seven Years’ War, but then the commander grew up. We witness George Washington take up politics and join Virginia’s colonial governing body, the House of Burgesses, where he became ever more attuned to the injustices of life under the British Empire and the paranoid, revolutionary atmosphere of the colonies. When war seemed inevitable, he was the right man—the only man—to lead the nascent American army. We would not be here without George Washington, and O’Connell proves that Washington the general was at least as significant to the founding of the United States as Washington the president. He emerges here as cunning and manipulative, a subtle puppeteer among intimates, and a master cajoler—but all in the cause of rectitude and moderation. Washington became the embodiment of the Revolution itself. He draped himself over the revolutionary process and tamped down its fires. As O’Connell writes, the war was decisive because Washington managed to stop a cycle of violence with the force of personality and personal restraint. In his trademark conversational, witty style, Robert L. O’Connell has written a compelling reexamination of General Washington and his revolutionary world. He cuts through the enigma surrounding Washington to show how the general made all the difference and became a new archetype of revolutionary leader in the process. Revolutionary is a masterful character study of America’s founding conflict filled with lessons about conspiracy, resistance, and leadership that resonate today. Advance praise for Revolutionary “Given the amount of ink spilled over the years, it is not easy to offer a fresh look at George Washington’s leadership role during the war for American independence. But Robert L. O’Connell has done it in Revolutionary. The title announces the insight, which is the otherwise uncontrollable political and military energies released by the war that Washington was able to orchestrate.”—Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogues: The Founders and Us