The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn

2005 Scholar's Bookshelf Reprint Edition of this work, from which all other military historians of the American Revolution have drawn, presents an exhaustive account of the American Revolution battles of Brooklyn, Long Island, Kip's Bay, Harlem Heights, and on to Trenton and Princeton and the closing of the 1776 campaign. The work is supplemented by more than 60 letters and reports describing the events by participants. Reprint of the original 1878 publication of the Long Island Historical Society. Includes the original 36" x 15 3/4" foldout map. 2005: softcover.

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Henry P. Johnston

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Excerpt from The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Vol. 4: First Chief-Justice of the United States, Member and President of the Continental Congress, Minister to Spain, Member of Commission to Negotiate Treaty of Independence, Envoy to Great Britain, Governor of New York, Etc;; 1794-1826 Accept my thanks for the ingenious work which you were so Obliging as to send me by Mr. Childs. I have read it with pleasure and improvement; it casts new light on several interesting questions, and I observe in it a degree of perspicuity not always to be found in dissertations on such subjects. The connection between mind and body, and the operations of the former on and through the latter, continue involved in great Obscurity. Persevering attention and inquiry will probably produce further information. The spiritual and material worlds, if I may use the expression, appear to me to be so widely different and Opposite, that I am Often inclined to suspect the existence of others, intermediate, but of a nature distinct from either. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Vol. 4: First Chief-Justice of the United States, Member and President of the Continental Congress, Minister to Spain, Member of Commission to Negotiate Treaty of Independence, Envoy to Great Britain, Gove

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First published in 1881, this book, by one of the first  professional historians of the American Revolution, remains a foundation  stone for the history of the last campaign of the American Revolution,  presenting the first complete account of the background, the generalship  of Cornwallis, the participation of Lafayette and the French, and the  ultimate siege and surrender. Includes the original documentary appendix  and 27 illustrations and maps. Index. 2006: 206 pages, softcover.  (Scholar's Bookshelf)

The Yorktown Campaign And The Surrender Of Cornwallis, 1781

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The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn

The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Vol. 4: First Chief-Justice of the United States, Member and President of the Continental Congress, Minister to Spain, Member of Commission to Negotiate Treaty of Independence, Envoy to Great Britain, Gove

The Yorktown Campaign And The Surrender Of Cornwallis, 1781