America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental ArmyNYU Press, 1 nov 1995 - 270 pagina's A unique and revealing analysis of the diverse body that made up the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum-beating, fire-eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence-minded farmer or hard-working artisan-turned-soldier is deeply ingrained in the national psyche. Charles Neimeyer here separates fact from fiction, revealing for the first time who really served in the army during the Revolution and why. His conclusions are startling. Because the army relied primarily on those not connected to the new American aristocracy, the African Americans, Irish, Germans, Native Americans, laborers-for-hire, and “free white men on the move” who served in the army were only rarely altruistic patriots driven by a vision of liberty and national unity. Bringing to light the true composition of the enlisted ranks, the relationships of African-Americans and of Native Americans to the army, and numerous acts of mutiny, desertion, and resistance against officers and government, Charles Patrick Neimeyer here provides the first comprehensive and historically accurate portrait of the Continental soldier. |
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... March to the Sea and Beyond : Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR 2. Childbearing in American Society : 1650-1850 CATHERINE M. SCHOLTEN 3. The Origins of Behaviorism : American Psychology , 1870 ...
... March to the Sea and Beyond : Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR 2. Childbearing in American Society : 1650-1850 CATHERINE M. SCHOLTEN 3. The Origins of Behaviorism : American Psychology , 1870 ...
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... March 1781. The veteran First Maryland regiment about to repulse a British attack with bayonets. 2. Surprise attack on the Hessians at Trenton on the day after Christmas, 1776. 3. The Battle of Yorktown, by Howard Pyle. 4. Battle of ...
... March 1781. The veteran First Maryland regiment about to repulse a British attack with bayonets. 2. Surprise attack on the Hessians at Trenton on the day after Christmas, 1776. 3. The Battle of Yorktown, by Howard Pyle. 4. Battle of ...
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... march against the Cherokees in 1759 , they refused to move because it meant leaving the colony . Governor Arthur Dobbs informed William Pitt that 420 out of the 500 men recruited to fight the Cherokees eventually deserted.9 Over time ...
... march against the Cherokees in 1759 , they refused to move because it meant leaving the colony . Governor Arthur Dobbs informed William Pitt that 420 out of the 500 men recruited to fight the Cherokees eventually deserted.9 Over time ...
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... march . They were a class apart from their officers and were feared by them nearly as much as the British . They were , however , willing to work for pay as soldiers when others would not , taking their chances , frequently dying in the ...
... march . They were a class apart from their officers and were feared by them nearly as much as the British . They were , however , willing to work for pay as soldiers when others would not , taking their chances , frequently dying in the ...
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... March 1779. By 1780, the Irish American volunteers were back down to just 286 men and ended up at the end of the war with 398.66 Desertion, no doubt, was the chief cause of the fluctuation, although Clinton himself did not think so. The ...
... March 1779. By 1780, the Irish American volunteers were back down to just 286 men and ended up at the end of the war with 398.66 Desertion, no doubt, was the chief cause of the fluctuation, although Clinton himself did not think so. The ...
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America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army Charles Patrick Neimeyer Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1997 |
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