(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
A brilliant re-creation of the American Revolution- exclusively from the British point of view- that gives a dramatically different picture of the birth of a nation. Using firsthand journals, letters from British officers in the field, reports from colonial governors in the colonies and documents in the Public Record Office in London, Michael Pearson provides a "contemporary" report of the Revolution. Seen from this perspective, some of the major...
Author
Description
"General John Burgoyne (24 February 1722 4 August 1792) was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762. Burgoyne is best known for his role in the American War of Independence. During the Saratoga campaign he surrendered his army of 5,000 men to the American troops on October 17, 1777. Appointed to command...
Author
Description
"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
Author
Description
Essays. Includes bibliographies. Thomas Gage, by J. Shy.--William Howe, by M.A. Jones.--Henry Clinton, by W.B. Willcox.--Guy Carleton, by P.H. Smith.--John Burgoyne, by G.A. Billias.--Charles Lord Cornwallis, by H.F. Rankin.--Richard Lord Howe, by I.D. Gruber.--Arbuthnot, Gambier, and Graves, by W.B. Willcox.--Samuel Hood, by D.A. Baugh.--George Rodney, by C. Lloyd.
Author
Description
""The fact is that their army is broken all to pieces, and the spirits of their leaders and their abettors is also broken ... one may venture to pronounce that it is well nigh over with them."--Lord Rawdon." "In the late fall of 1776, few people on either side would have disagreed with this young British officer's assessment of the Continental Army - least of all, the commander of that army, George Washington."
"After four months of disastrous defeats,...
Author
Description
"A dramatic untold 'people's history' of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution"--
"The story of the Boston Massacre--when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death--is familiar to generations. But the history of the event has always obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Historian Serena Zabin weaves colorful stories...
In ILL
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by San Antonio College Library can be requested from other ILL libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request