The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens : Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder /
"Though best known as a Revolutionary War general, Andrew Pickens (1739-1817) was more than just an influential military figure in the early American republic, also serving as a church leader, justice of the peace, legislator, and congressman. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers the first compr...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Family pilgrimage
- Family, war, and order
- The backcountry militia
- Defending the new order, 1777-1779
- Liberty and virtue in a conquered land
- The "brave and valuable" Colonel Pickens : the Cowpens campaign
- The North Carolina campaign
- Fighting his way back home
- Ninety Six and Eutaw
- A state of alarm and confusion
- Rebuilding civil society
- General Pickens, Indian Treaty commissioner
- The struggle for peace
- The strong hand of government, 1789-1793
- War, peace, and corruption, 1793-1797
- Every thing that was possible for men of honor to do
- Retirement and looking back.