Colonial Military Organization in Delaware, 1638-1776
Author | : Leon De Valinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Delaware |
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Author | : Leon De Valinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Delaware |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Delaware Tercentenary Commission (WILMINGTON, Del.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1938 |
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Author | : Robert K. Wright |
Publisher | : Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.
Author | : Edward Rodolphus Lambert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Branford (Conn. : Town) |
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Author | : Mary C. Gillett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Appendices include laws and legislation concerning the Army Medical Department. Maps include those of territories and frontiers and Continental Army hospital locations. Illustrations are chiefly portraits.
Author | : Kim Rogers Burdick |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439658595 |
In 1776, Delaware declared independence from both England and Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Three Lower Counties of Pennsylvania, the First State was instrumental in the fight to form a new republic. The Marquis de Lafayette, Nathanael Greene and George Washington all made trips to the state. Caesar Rodney's ride and the Battle of Cooch's Bridge are legendary, but the state has many unsung heroes. Citizens from every village, town, crossroads and marsh risked their lives to support their beliefs. Author Kim Burdick offers the carefully documented story of ordinary people coping with extraordinary circumstances.
Author | : Gerald J. Kauffman |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2011-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1304287165 |
During the American War for Independence in Augustand September, 1777, the British invaded Delaware aspart of an end-run campaign to defeat GeorgeWashington and the Americans and capture the capitalat Philadelphia. For a few short weeks the hills andstreams in and around Newark and Iron Hill and at Cooch's Bridge along the Christina River were the focus of worldhistory as the British marched through the Diamond State between the Chesapeake Bay and Brandywine Creek.This is the story of the British invasion of Delaware,one of the lesser known but critical watershedmoments in American history.
Author | : Army Center of Military History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2016-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781944961404 |
American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Author | : John B. Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199756678 |
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.