Landmarks of the American Revolution:
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Main Author: Nash, Gary B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press c2003
Series:American landmarks (Oxford University Press)
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index
Lexington Green -- Independence Hall, Independence National -- Valley Forge National Historic Park -- Marblehead Historic District -- Faneuil Hall -- Peyton Randolph House -- John and Abigail Adams House, Adams -- Johnson Hall -- Old Saint Mary's Episcopal Church -- Old South Meeting House -- Francis Hopkinson House -- Yorktown Battlefield, Colonial National Historic Park
In 1775, on the green of Lexington, Massachusetts, 2,200 British minutemen fired upon the local militia -- seventy colonial farmers and village artisans in total. The British suffered staggering losses: half of their troops died. And so began the American Revolution. In Landmarks of the American Revolution, fourteen key sites and numerous secondary locales show with rich detail and fascinating anecdotes where the War of Independence took place. In addition to the Lexington-Concord Battle Site, historian Gary Nash features Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed; John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the out-of-work, 28-year-old immigrant who went on to become one of the new nation's naval heroes lived; Peyton Randolph House in Williamsburg, Virginia, a place emblematic of African Americans' role in the war; and many other significant places of the American Revolution. A dynamic journey through history that reveals all sides in the war -- loyalists, patriots, African American, Native American, women, British -- Landmarks of the American Revolution brings to life how a new nation came to be
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (158 p.)
ISBN:1429440406
9781429440400

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