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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated account of bookseller Henry Knox's heroic contributions during the Revolutionary War, describing how he dragged fifty-nine cannons to Boston across 225 miles filled with danger and hardship.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, that truly revealed the new nation's character-above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. In Rebels at Sea, Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission, and contends that privateers, though...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tom Fleming examines the women who were at the center of the lives of the founding fathers. From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel Lavien Hamilton, the founding fathers' mothers powerfully shaped their sons' visions of domestic life. But lovers and wives played more critical roles as friends and, often, partners in fame. Fleming nimbly takes us through a great deal of early American history, as the founding fathers strove to...
28) Women heroes of the American Revolution: 20 stories of espionage, sabotage, defiance, and rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Susan Casey gives 20 remarkable girls and women the spotlight they deserve in this lively collection of biographical profiles. These women took action in many ways: as spies, soldiers, nurses, water carriers, fundraisers, writers, couriers, and more. Women Heroes of the American Revolution brings a fresh new perspective to their stories resulting from interviews with historians and with descendants of participants of the Revolution and features ample...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating and enlightening work, military historian Michael Lee Lanning reveals the little-known, critical, and heroic role African Americans played in the American Revolution, serving in integrated units, a situation that wouldn't exist again until the Korean War, more than 150 years later.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army. With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what it meant to face brutal winters, starvation, terrible homesickness and to go into battle against the...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this title, readers will examine the pivotal commanders of the American Revolution. Engaging text introduces readers to the lives of important leaders including George Washington, King George III, Samuel Adams, Lord Frederick North, Paul Revere, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene, Baron Friedrich Von Steuben, and Patrick Henry.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Abdo & Daughters is an...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The differences between the Federalists and Antifederalists revolved around the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. It was an argument that started in the late 1780s and in some ways, it's a debate that's still being had today; the power of the federal government versus states' rights, the interpretation of individual liberties, and urban versus rural areas. This book examines the issues from both sides, profiles the key Founding Fathers who were...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Why did colonists dump tea into the Boston harbor? Why did the British government cling to the 13 colonies with such force? Why did the French and Spanish lend a helping hand to the colonies? From local rebellions to full-scale battles, The Revolutionary War: Why They Fought reveals the motivations behind the Revolutionary War from all sides. Go beyond names and dates and ask: what were they fighting for?
36) Redcoat
Author
Language
English
Description
It is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun.
37) The rifleman
Author
Publisher
Fidelis Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This is a war story. It's about real people and events before and during the American Revolution. The central characters in this work, Daniel Morgan, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Charles Mynn Thruston, and Generals Arnold, Knox, Greene, Lee, Gates, and a host of others, actually did the deeds at the places and times described herein. So too did their accurately identified foreign and native adversaries. Though this is a work of fiction, readers...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this major new history of the Continental Army's Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo A. Herrera uncovers what daily life was like for soldiers during the darkest and coldest days of the American Revolution: the Valley Forge winter. Here, the army launched its largest and riskiest operation-not a bloody battle against British forces but a campaign to feed itself and prevent starvation or dispersal during the long encampment....
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this title, readers will examine the weapons--large and small--used by both the Continental and British armies. The three types of cannon--guns, mortars, and howitzers--are covered, as are smaller guns such as land pattern muskets, rifles and pistols. Swords, bayonets, and knives are also examined. Continental and British naval warships are introduced.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Abdo & Daughters is an...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The American Revolution was won not on the battlefields, but in the mind of George Washington. A compulsively readable narrative and extensive history, George Washington's War illuminates how during the war's winter months the young general created a new model of leadership that became the model for the American presidency.