Still in many ways the most comprehensive work of its kind, this massive study presented highly detailed accounts of battles at Lake Champlain, off Boston and Maine, Charleston, Delaware Bay, and year-by-year histories of all other significant engagements both along the American coast and at sea. The work also presents extensive coverage of the ships of the revolutionary navy, its commanders, foreign alliances, diplomacy, prisoners, and naval conditions during this era. Reprint of the original 1913 edition. 2005: 752 pages, softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf) Set of 2 Volumes.

A Naval History Of The American Revolution

History

Gardner W. Allen

Americas

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A classic study which offers essential perspectives on nearly every aspect of the American Revolution during the first two years, with a great deal of valuable material on the British estimate of the crisis, preparations, and the battles at Boston, Long Island, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, all focused on the roles of Richard and William Howe. "In no book has Sir William Howe been more fairly treated and, by consequence, in none has his inadequacy been more completely laid are." American Historical Review. Reprint of the original 1936 Oxford University Press edition. 2005: 368 pages. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)

The Command Of The Howe Brothers During The American Revolution

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Science Awakening I

Science & Math

B.L. van der Waerden

Mathematics

Science Awakening I: Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek Mathematics

A fully detailed study of the British Army focused on its operations in the American Revolution, with separate chapters on its administrative machinery, recruiting, provisioning, and transportation. The book remains unique for its gathering of contemporary documents illuminating aspects of these topics. Reprint of the original 1926 Yale University Press edition. 2005: 223 pages. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)

The Organization Of The British Army In The American Revolution

Edward E. Curtis

Reprint edition of this 1932 work by the most important  historian of the events of April, 1775, the first work to draw on the Gage  MSS. The work showed how Gage kept informed about American sentiments and  plans, and gathered sixteen basic documents and accounts detailing the  events of the day as well as a chapter on the story of Benjamin Thompson,  later Count Rumford. The author also presented evidence that the Americans  fired first at Lexington. 2005: 207 pages, illustrated. Softcover.  (Scholar's Bookshelf)

General Gage's Informers; New Material Upon Lexington And Concord: Benjamin Thompson As Loyalist And The Treachery Of Benjamin Church, Jr.

Allen French

The author used several first-hand accounts by British officers and soldiers to provide an excellent chronological history of British planning and operations in the Hudson Valley campaigns and also established in this book for the first time the roles of Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen in the American defense. Reprint of the original 1928 Harvard University Press edition. 2005: 89 pages, softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)

The Taking Of Ticonderoga In 1775; The British Story

The full title reads as follows: History of the siege of boston, and of the battles of Lexingto, Concord, and Bunker Hill; also, an account of the Bunker Hill Monument, with illustrative documents. This classic text traces the history of the 1775-76 military operations in the vicinity of Boston that started the American Revolution. Frothingham pays particular attention to the siege of Boston that followed the Battle of Bunker Hill and provides a detailed account of the British rule of that city, their later evacuation, and the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument. This reprint of the 4th (1873) edition is accompanied by two oversize foldout maps from the original work. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

History Of The Siege Of Boston And The Battles Of Lexington, Concord, And Bunker Hill

Richard Frothingham

A remarkably comprehensive and well informed study originally published in 1926 and written by a Royal Navy captain who focused on the challenge presented to British seapower by the American Revolution with its issues of international maritime warfare, challenges to the Admiralty which had let the Royal Navy fall behind its rivals, neutrality, commerce, and other questions. The author presents a narrative history of British naval operations around the world during this time, the military and civilian leaders, strategies, and overall results. Extensive documentary material includes lists of commissioned ships. Many illustrations and maps. Reprint edition. 2005: 459 pages, softcover.

Greek Science in Antiquity

W.M. James

The basic source for the New England Indian Wars of the late 1600s, gathering annotated texts documenting the wars of 1675, the captivity of Mary Rowlandson, and the "Decennium Luctuosum" of Cotton Mather (1699), an account of the ten-year struggle with the Indians in the last decade of the seventeenth century. Much of the material reflects the international aspects of these struggles in the light of events in Europe and Canada. Reprint of the 1913 Scribner's edition, including a reproduction of the rare 12 3/4" x 9 3/4" map. 2005: 334 pages. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)

Narratives Of The Indian Wars, 1675-1699

Charles H. Lincoln, Editor

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