Most Illustrious Hereditary Prince: Letters to Their Prince from Members of Hesse-Hanau Military Contingent in the Service of England During the Ameri, Burgoyne Bruce E.
Автор: Burgoyne Bruce E. Название: These Were the Hessians ISBN: 0788441930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780788441936 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4828.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Burgoyne, Thomas H. Название: Light of egypt or the science of the soul and the stars ISBN: 1438508425 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781438508429 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3301.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This author enjoys a unique and pre-eminent position in the study of Hessian records of the American Revolution, having translated literally thousands of pages of the journals and writings of D hla, Prechtel, Waldeck, Pausch, Von Feilitsch, Bartholomai, Piel, Wiederhold, Rueffer, "J.R." Steuernagel, and many other Hessian soldiers. To this impressive list he now adds the writings of Lieutenant Friedrich Julius Von Papet, a young Brunswick officer whose journal spans the period from May of 1776 to October of 1783. "One of the most significant and important effects of the English employment of Hessians during the American Revolutionary War was the retention of English control of Canada. General John Burgoyne had taken most of the British] military strength from Canada for his command when he marched against the American colonists in 1777. However, even after France entered the war on the American side], the residents of that former French colony were not strong enough to openly resist the military control exercised by a small English and Hessian command. As a result, England retained Canada under the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1783." Troops from Hesse-Cassel, Waldeck and Ansbach-Bayreuth were sent to Howe's command, as well as some troops from Hesse-Hanau and Anhalt-Zerbst, while troops from Hesse-Hanau, Brunswick and Anhalt-Zerbst provided the forces sent to Canada, together with some troops from Hesse-Cassel which were sent from New York to Canada later in the war. The Brunswick troops, numbering 4,300 men, sailed for America in two divisions, one departing in late March 1776, and the other, including Von Papet, departing on 31 May 1776, two weeks after the start of this journal. Von Papet was one of the Hessians (only 600+ officers and non-commissioned officers) who remained behind in Canada when John Burgoyne began his march against the American colonists in 1777. Though only twenty-one years old, Von Papet was assigned the important position of brigade major. Because he kept a diary throughout his English service (all the way up to his return march to Brunswick), we have a picture of the military, social and cultural life in Canada at that time. As a very young man in a very demanding position, Von Papet records the inner reactions among his superiors with a noteworthy caution and understanding not to let his position cause him harm. As there is a scarcity of information concerning military affairs in Canada during the American Revolution, Von Papet's journal provides much-needed insight into why Canada never became a very large fourteenth American colony.
Автор: Burgoyne Thomas H. Название: The Light of Egypt or Science of the Soul and the Stars ISBN: 1169988024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781169988026 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8083.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Unhealthy Betrayal explores the reasons for the collapse of health, the prevalence of chronic health conditions in the Western economies, and failure of modern medicine with its reliance on the use of drugs, chemotherapy and surgery to deal with the consequences of the toxic environment, and the problems created by industrialisation of our food supply. We examine why it is the organisations seemingly set up to protect us from harm consistently fail to do this and why corporate pathological pursuit of profits, corrupt democracy, damage health and engulf society with both financial debt and a toxic burden for generations to come. We trace the connection between the current banking system, which allows private banks to create money out of nothing
Автор: Cubbison Douglas R. Название: Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign: His Papers ISBN: 0806144610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806144610 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5046.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award-Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York (Honorable Mention) Assesses how the British general's leadership contributed to the Revolutionary War's major turning point The American victory over the British at Saratoga in 1777 was arguably the pivotal event of the American Revolutionary War. The British defeat led France and Spain to declare war on Britain, transforming a colonial uprising into a world war and, by distracting the British with a European conflict, assuring the colonists' success. The British troops at Saratoga were led by Lieutenant General John Burgoyne, and two years after his defeat he faced a parliamentary investigation into his conduct of the campaign. In Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Douglas R. Cubbison presents the papers that Burgoyne gathered preparatory to his appearance before Parliament, together with Cubbison's own interpretive narrative of the campaign, based on these documents and other sources. The papers, most of them published here for the first time, comprise Burgoyne's correspondence with the governor general of Canada, the British secretary of state for America, and the commander of the British army during the Saratoga expedition. The letters and reports outline the campaign's political organization and planning, logistical preparations, and implementation. Burgoyne is one of the most colorful and fascinating figures of the American Revolution. A successful British commander in Portugal during the Seven Years' War, he was also a popular playwright, and those of his letters included and carefully annotated here reflect his literary gifts. At the outbreak of the revolution in 1775, Burgoyne was promoted to major general. Thanks largely to his political connections, he was dispatched in 1776 to lead the detachment of the British army sent to stop the rebels from seizing Canada. Cubbison concludes that the ultimate defeat of this expedition at Saratoga was due to lax planning in London and in the field. Burgoyne's cavalry career in Europe had not prepared him for warfare along the waterways and deep in the woods of Canada and New York. The general also seriously underestimated the capabilities of the American rebels. The documents Burgoyne assembled in 1779-and Cubbison's narrative and analysis of the challenges faced by Burgoyne and his associates-are crucial for understanding this turning point in the Revolutionary War. Douglas R. Cubbison, a former U.S. Army Field Artillery Officer and Command Historian, is President of Stone Fort Consulting, a historic preservation and interpretation consulting firm. He is author of four previous books, including The American Northern Theater Army in 1776: The Ruin and Reconstruction of the Continental Force.