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Atlas of Early American History
This magnificently designed and produced volume is in every way extraordinary. Large in format (13 x18 inches) and printed on specially made paper, it contains 286 newly-drawn, data-filled maps, 271 of them reproduced in as many as six colors. Threaded among the maps are narrative captions that amount to a running commentary; 60 additional pages provide interpretive background content. The stunningly beautiful maps
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Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?
Despite the disclaimers of dictionary, encyclopedia and historian, the notion that the Pilgrims of the Mayflower actually landed on Plymouth Rock has been difficult to dislodge from the American imagination. In this brief book, Mrs. Fritz demolishes this cherished belief with humor and authenticity. Her true history of that chunk of New England granite should go far toward dispelling forever from young minds the vision of Pilgrim footsteps upon it.
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The Bicentennial Guide to the American Revolution
The celebration of the nation's Bicentennial, one hopes, will enlarge and enrich the average American citizen's knowledge and understanding of his Revolutionary beginnings. There is no better place to begin than with the sites and scenes that survive. And one would be hard put to find more companionable, entertaining and useful guidebooks than these three attractive volumes, available in both hardcover and paperback editions.
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Winners And Losers
AUTHOR, a few years ago of a useful guide to the \"decisive battles of the American Revolution,\" Joseph B. Mitchell turns his attention here to 10 generals of that war: George Washington, John Burgoyne, Sir William Howe, Benedict Arnold, Anthony Wayne, Sir Henry Clinton, Horatio Gates, Daniel Morgan, Lord Charles Cornwallis and Nathanael Greene. They are selected as \"the most successful leaders on both sides\" because they were \"those who learned how to make the best use of their conglomerate forces.\"
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In the Field With the Rebels
AMERICAN battlefields of A both the Civil War and the Revolution are today being visited by more and more armchair strategists who leave their firesides and go to the actual site to see for themselves what happened there. For these enthusiasts Colonel Mitchell's handbook will be a useful tool Handbook it is: a reference work to be carried in the hand and studied at the scene of action. Similar in plan and content to the author's earlier \"Decisive Battles of the Civil War,\" it is
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'Deserter' Sets Out To Snare a Traitor
ON THE NIGHT of Oct. 20, 1780, the weathered tents of the Continental Army were pitched in the rolling cattle country around Totowa above the Great Falls of the Passaic in New Jersey. Rain was makeing, and the night was moonless and black.
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The Forgotten Victory
An infrequently mentioned and often misunderstood vic tory of the Revolution was the American repulse of a power ful British invasion of New Jer sey in June of 1780. The large. scale raid was conceived by in fluential loyalists who convinced the British command
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Friends of the Revolution, and an enemy
Written in Mr. Morris's characteristically facile and vivid style, this rich gallery of portraits provocatively sets up seven men -- Franklin, Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Jay, Madison and Hamilton--as those who at the founding of the nation played the central role in Shaping its destiny.
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Of wars, Boers And battles
For young readers the most distinguished brief account to date of the campaign that led to American victory at Yorktown is easily Burke Davis's YORKTOWN (Harper & Row, $3.95). It is a sound, graceful narrative of a complex and brilliant campaign.
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