Product Description: Our nation has produced comparatively few statesmen since the eighteenth century--only Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt seem to clearly qualify--whereas the American Revolution elevated several of its key players to a status of the first political order...read more

Product Description: George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vernon, and first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the founding generation, with historians and the public at large still arguing over the strengths of his character and the nature of his intellectual and political contributions to the early republic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: It is an examination of the military side of the American Revolution. Great preparation for a course on the American Revolution conflict, and is organized thematically with a lot of endnotes after each chapter an an excellent bibliography...read more

The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789 (The Macmillan Wars of the United States)xvi, 509 pp. 8vo. Bibliographical essay and index follow text. A history of the quarter century before, during, and after the American Revolution, examining military policy and the general attitudes of citizens towards war.Keywords: MILITARY HISTORY AMERICAN REVOLUTION REVOLUTIONARY WAR AMERICA