Almost a miracle [[electronic resource] ] : the American victory in the War of Independence / / John Ferling |
Autore | Ferling John E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (694 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Generals - United States
Soldiers - United States - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-16246-9
9786611162467 0-19-804005-9 1-4294-9168-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Preface; Introduction: "My Country, My Honor, My Life": Bravery and Death in War; PART ONE: GOING TO WAR, 1775-1776; PART TWO: THE WAR IN THE NORTH, 1776-1779; PART THREE: THE WAR IN THE SOUTH, 1780-1781; PART FOUR: AMERICAN VICTORY, 1781-1783; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451864703321 |
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Almost a miracle [[electronic resource] ] : the American victory in the War of Independence / / John Ferling |
Autore | Ferling John E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (694 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Generals - United States
Soldiers - United States - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
0-19-771115-4
1-281-16246-9 9786611162467 0-19-804005-9 1-4294-9168-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Preface; Introduction: "My Country, My Honor, My Life": Bravery and Death in War; PART ONE: GOING TO WAR, 1775-1776; PART TWO: THE WAR IN THE NORTH, 1776-1779; PART THREE: THE WAR IN THE SOUTH, 1780-1781; PART FOUR: AMERICAN VICTORY, 1781-1783; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778128403321 |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Almost a miracle [[electronic resource] ] : the American victory in the War of Independence / / John Ferling |
Autore | Ferling John E |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (694 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Generals - United States
Soldiers - United States - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
0-19-771115-4
1-281-16246-9 9786611162467 0-19-804005-9 1-4294-9168-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Preface; Introduction: "My Country, My Honor, My Life": Bravery and Death in War; PART ONE: GOING TO WAR, 1775-1776; PART TWO: THE WAR IN THE NORTH, 1776-1779; PART THREE: THE WAR IN THE SOUTH, 1780-1781; PART FOUR: AMERICAN VICTORY, 1781-1783; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808442403321 |
Ferling John E
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | ||
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A people numerous and armed : reflections on the military struggle for American independence / / John Shy |
Autore | Shy John W |
Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, Mich., : University of Michigan Press, c1990 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 356 p. ) |
Disciplina | 973.3/3 |
ISBN | 1-59740-531-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction to the Original Edition -- 1. The American Revolution Today -- 2. A New Look at the Colonial Militia -- 3. The Spectrum of Imperial Possibilities: Henry Ellis and Thomas Pownall, 1763-1775 -- 4. The Empire Militant: Thomas Gage and the Coming of War -- 5. American Society and Its War for Independence -- 6. American Strategy: Charles Lee and the Radical Alternative -- 7. Hearts and Minds in the American Revolution: The Case of "Long Bill" Scott and Peterborough, New Hampshire -- 8. Armed Loyalism: The Case of the Lower Hudson Valley -- 9. British Strategy for Pacifying the Southern Colonies, 1778-1781 -- 10. The Military Conflict Considered as a Revolutionary War -- 11. The Legacy of the American Revolutionary War -- 12. The American Military Experience: History and Learning -- Further Reflections |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248088303316 |
Shy John W
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Ann Arbor, Mich., : University of Michigan Press, c1990 | ||
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"A respectable army" : the military origins of the republic, 1763-1789 / / James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender |
Autore | Martin James Kirby <1943-> |
Edizione | [Third edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/3 |
Collana | The American History Series |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-118-92390-1
1-118-92389-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Of Lexington and Concord, and the Myths of the War, 1763-1775; Lexington and Concord; Of Standing Armies (Power) and Militia (Liberty); Ideological Transmission; The Provincial Militia Tradition; The Tyranny of Standing Armies; Notes; Chapter 2 The Republican War, 1775-1776; A Republican Order as the Goal; Regulars Versus Republicans: The British at Bay; The Adoption of a Continental Army; The British Military Counterthrust; The New York Campaign; Success and Failure; Notes
Chapter 3 Toward an American Standing Army, 1776-1777The Nature of the Continental Army; A New Model Rebel Army; William Howe's Campaign of 1777; The Saratoga Campaign; The American Search for Manpower; The Old Myth and the New Soldiery; Notes; Chapter 4 On and Off the Road of Despair, 1777-1779; Valley Forge; Mounting Anger in the Officer Corps; Tables Turned: New Life for the Cause; The British Dispersal of 1778; Growing Internal Division: Army and Society; Notes; Chapter 5 Moral Defeat and Military Turnabout, 1779-1781; Dispersed Warfare; Patriot Naval Exploits Financial Morass on the Home FrontThe War in the Southern States; Treason, Pensions, and Mutinies; Sudden Turnabout: The Road to Yorktown; Notes; Chapter 6 Of War, National Legitimacy, and the Republican Order, 1781-1789; The Yorktown Campaign; Formulating a Peace Settlement; The Newburgh Conspiracy; Transition to a Postwar World; Myth and Tradition: A Political/Military Settlement; Notes; A Note on Revolutionary War History and Historiography; Index; EULA |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460579603321 |
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"A respectable army" : the military origins of the republic, 1763-1789 / / James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender |
Autore | Martin James Kirby <1943-> |
Edizione | [Third edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/3 |
Collana | The American History Series |
ISBN |
1-118-92390-1
1-118-92389-8 |
Classificazione |
253.04
973.33 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Of Lexington and Concord, and the Myths of the War, 1763-1775; Lexington and Concord; Of Standing Armies (Power) and Militia (Liberty); Ideological Transmission; The Provincial Militia Tradition; The Tyranny of Standing Armies; Notes; Chapter 2 The Republican War, 1775-1776; A Republican Order as the Goal; Regulars Versus Republicans: The British at Bay; The Adoption of a Continental Army; The British Military Counterthrust; The New York Campaign; Success and Failure; Notes
Chapter 3 Toward an American Standing Army, 1776-1777The Nature of the Continental Army; A New Model Rebel Army; William Howe's Campaign of 1777; The Saratoga Campaign; The American Search for Manpower; The Old Myth and the New Soldiery; Notes; Chapter 4 On and Off the Road of Despair, 1777-1779; Valley Forge; Mounting Anger in the Officer Corps; Tables Turned: New Life for the Cause; The British Dispersal of 1778; Growing Internal Division: Army and Society; Notes; Chapter 5 Moral Defeat and Military Turnabout, 1779-1781; Dispersed Warfare; Patriot Naval Exploits Financial Morass on the Home FrontThe War in the Southern States; Treason, Pensions, and Mutinies; Sudden Turnabout: The Road to Yorktown; Notes; Chapter 6 Of War, National Legitimacy, and the Republican Order, 1781-1789; The Yorktown Campaign; Formulating a Peace Settlement; The Newburgh Conspiracy; Transition to a Postwar World; Myth and Tradition: A Political/Military Settlement; Notes; A Note on Revolutionary War History and Historiography; Index; EULA |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797294503321 |
Martin James Kirby <1943->
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"A respectable army" : the military origins of the republic, 1763-1789 / / James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender |
Autore | Martin James Kirby <1943-> |
Edizione | [Third edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.3/3 |
Collana | The American History Series |
ISBN |
1-118-92390-1
1-118-92389-8 |
Classificazione |
253.04
973.33 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Of Lexington and Concord, and the Myths of the War, 1763-1775; Lexington and Concord; Of Standing Armies (Power) and Militia (Liberty); Ideological Transmission; The Provincial Militia Tradition; The Tyranny of Standing Armies; Notes; Chapter 2 The Republican War, 1775-1776; A Republican Order as the Goal; Regulars Versus Republicans: The British at Bay; The Adoption of a Continental Army; The British Military Counterthrust; The New York Campaign; Success and Failure; Notes
Chapter 3 Toward an American Standing Army, 1776-1777The Nature of the Continental Army; A New Model Rebel Army; William Howe's Campaign of 1777; The Saratoga Campaign; The American Search for Manpower; The Old Myth and the New Soldiery; Notes; Chapter 4 On and Off the Road of Despair, 1777-1779; Valley Forge; Mounting Anger in the Officer Corps; Tables Turned: New Life for the Cause; The British Dispersal of 1778; Growing Internal Division: Army and Society; Notes; Chapter 5 Moral Defeat and Military Turnabout, 1779-1781; Dispersed Warfare; Patriot Naval Exploits Financial Morass on the Home FrontThe War in the Southern States; Treason, Pensions, and Mutinies; Sudden Turnabout: The Road to Yorktown; Notes; Chapter 6 Of War, National Legitimacy, and the Republican Order, 1781-1789; The Yorktown Campaign; Formulating a Peace Settlement; The Newburgh Conspiracy; Transition to a Postwar World; Myth and Tradition: A Political/Military Settlement; Notes; A Note on Revolutionary War History and Historiography; Index; EULA |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812297203321 |
Martin James Kirby <1943->
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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