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Women in the American Revolution /
"Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handling a range of jobs usually performed by men. The author focuses on the many key roles women filled in the struggle for independence, from farming to m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg
- War in the north. Founding mothers in the first days of revolution
- Correspondence committees, the Tea Party and coercive acts
- Siege of Boston and the Canada campaign
- New York and New Jersey campaigns
- Saratoga campaign, Ben Franklin and French aid
- Valley Forge, Monmouth Battle and Sullivan's Raid
- War in the south. Regulators and Wataugans
- Pontiac's War, boundaries and treaties and Dunmore's War
- Transylvania, Great Bridge Battle and Kentucky County, Virginia
- Snow campaign, Moore's Creek, Sullivan's Island and the Cherokee War
- Northwest Territory, Chickamauga Expedition and mid-Tennessee
- Georgia invades Florida, and the Savannah and Augusta campaigns
- Charlestown campaign, Camden Battle and Fishing Creek
- Militiamen cross the Blue Ridge and face Ferguson in Tryon County
- Watauga, Kings Mountain and the journey home
- Cornwallis reverses course and confronts Greene in the south
- British and American strategy in the Virginia campaign
- The Virginia campaign and the American victory at Yorktown
- The last pockets of revolution and the Treaty of Paris.