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Autumn of the Black Snake

The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West

By: William Hogeland

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Autumn of the Black Snake

The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West

By: William Hogeland

William Hogeland's Autumn of the Black Snake presents forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian war. When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic soon found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands. In 1791, years of skirmishes, raids, and quagmire climaxed in the grisly defeat of American militiamen by a brilliantly organized confederation of Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware Indians. With nearly one thousand U.S. casualties, this was the worst defeat the nation would ever suffer at native hands. Americans were shocked, perhaps none more so than their commander in chief, George Washington, who saw in the debacle an urgent lesson: the United States needed an army. Autumn of the Black Snake tells the overlooked story of how Washington achieved his aim. In evocative and absorbing prose, William Hogeland conjures up the woodland battles and the hardball politics that formed the Legion of the United States, our first true standing army. His memorable portraits of leaders on both sides—from the daring war chiefs Blue Jacket and Little Turtle to the doomed commander Richard Butler and a steely, even ruthless Washington—drive a tale of horrific violence, brilliant strategizing, stupendous blunders, and valorous deeds. This sweeping account, at once exciting and dark, builds to a crescendo as Washington and Alexander Hamilton, at enormous risk, outmaneuver Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other skeptics of standing armies—and Washington appoints the seemingly disreputable Anthony Wayne, known as Mad Anthony, to lead the legion. Wayne marches into the forests of the Old Northwest, where the very Indians he is charged with defeating will bestow on him, with grudging admiration, a new name: the Black Snake. Autumn of the Black Snake is a dramatic work of military and political history, told in a colorful, sometimes startling blow-by-blow narrative. It is also an original interpretation of how greed, honor, political beliefs, and vivid personalities converged on the killing fields of the Ohio valley, where the United States Army would win its first victory, and in so doing destroy the coalition of Indians who came closer than any, before or since, to halting the nation’s westward expansion.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374711585

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9780374711580

The American National State and the Early West

By: William H. Bergmann

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The American National State and the Early West

By: William H. Bergmann

Challenges the myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic and provides a new narrative of American expansionism.

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299

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Cambridge University Press

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1107015286

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9781107015289

Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of New York

By: Joseph Sabin,William Menzies

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Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of New York

By: Joseph Sabin,William Menzies

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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498

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385378540

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9783385378544

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

By: William St Clair

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The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

By: William St Clair

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806

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Cambridge University Press

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052181006X

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9780521810067

British Buckeyes

The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900

By: William E. Van Vugt

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British Buckeyes

The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900

By: William E. Van Vugt

How early British immigrants shaped Ohio? Because of their so similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, the English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the invisible immigrants assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their ethnic identities. Yet, of all of Ohio's immigrants the British were the most influential in terms of shaping the state's politics and institutions. Also significant were their contributions of farming, mining, iron production, textiles, pottery, and engineering. Until British Buckeyes, historians have all but ignored and neglected these Industrious settlers. Author William E Van Vugt uses hundreds of biographies from county archives and histories, letters, Ohio and British census figures, and ship passenger lists to identify these immigrants; and draw a portrait of their occupations, settlement patterns, experiences and to underscore their role in Ohio history.

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324

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Kent State University Press

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0873388437

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9780873388436

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

By: William Heath

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William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

By: William Heath

Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. William Heath’s thoroughly researched book is the first biography of this man-in-the-middle. A servant of empire with deep sympathies for the people his country sought to dispossess, Wells married Chief Little Turtle’s daughter and distinguished himself as a Miami warrior, as an American spy, and as an Indian agent whose multilingual skills made him a valuable interpreter. Heath examines pioneer life in the Ohio Valley from both white and Indian perspectives, yielding rich insights into Wells’s career as well as broader events on the post-revolutionary American frontier, where Anglo-Americans pushing westward competed with the Indian nations of the Old Northwest for control of territory. Wells’s unusual career, Heath emphasizes, earned him a great deal of ill will. Because he warned the U.S. government against Tecumseh’s confederacy and the Tenskwatawa’s “religiously mad” followers, he was hated by those who supported the Shawnee leaders. Because he came to question treaties he had helped bring about, and cautioned the Indians about their harmful effects, he was distrusted by Americans. Wells is a complicated hero, and his conflicted position reflects the decline of coexistence and cooperation between two cultures.

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521

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080615148X

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9780806151489

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I Vol 4

By: William D Brewer,Daniel Robinson,Sharon M Setzer,Orianne Smith

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The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I Vol 4

By: William D Brewer,Daniel Robinson,Sharon M Setzer,Orianne Smith

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparisons with Charlotte Smith, make her a serious figure for scholarly research.

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455

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Routledge

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100074955X

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9781000749557

A Naval Biographical Dictionary - Volume 3

By: William R. O’Byrne

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A Naval Biographical Dictionary - Volume 3

By: William R. O’Byrne

Volume 3 of 3. Originally published in 1849, this work gives details of “the life and services of every living officer in ‘Her Majesty's Navy” who was serving or had retired by 1845 – nearly 5,000 officers in all. Generally acknowledged as the most comprehensive work of its kind, it was a considerable undertaking for one man to piece together such detailed biographies. This information was compiled from official records and from details supplied by the officers themselves. The service details found on every page reflect the centuries-old naval traditions of devotion to duty and great bravery in the face of danger. They also provide information on the many naval actions that were fought at the end of the eighteenth and first half of nineteenth centuries. Coincidentally, the original publication took place during the year of issue of what is now referred to as the Naval General Service Medal. In 1847 Queen Victoria authorised this award to be struck to record the services of naval officers and men who took part in various actions between 1793 and 1815, later extended to 1840. The award was limited to those who were alive at the time of the announcement. Over 200 Naval actions were commemorated on clasps to this medal; details of these and a considerable number of other engagements are to be found throughout this volume. Over the century and a half since its publication, this work has established itself as an essential reference work for naval historians and for a wider section of the public who are in search of their naval ancestry.

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492

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Andrews UK Limited

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1781502811

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9781781502815

The Scottish Nation; or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland

Vol. III.

By: William Anderson

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The Scottish Nation; or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland

Vol. III.

By: William Anderson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752524456

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9783752524451

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700

Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Other Historical Individuals

By: Frederick Lewis Weis,Walter Lee Sheppard,William Ryland Beall,Kaleen E. Beall

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Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700

Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Other Historical Individuals

By: Frederick Lewis Weis,Walter Lee Sheppard,William Ryland Beall,Kaleen E. Beall

This is the eighth edition of the classic work on the royal ancestry of certain colonists who came to America before the year 1700, and it is the first new edition to appear since 1992, reflecting the change in editorship from the late Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. to his appointed successors William and Kaleen Beall. Like the previous editions, it embodies the very latest research in the highly specialized field of royal genealogy. As a result, out of a total of 398 ancestral lines, 91 have been extensively revised and 60 have been added, while almost all lines have had at least some minor corrections, amounting altogether to a 30 percent increase in text. Previous discoveries have now been integrated into the text and recently discovered errors have been corrected. And for the first time, thanks to the efforts of the new editors, this edition contains an every-name index, replacing the cumbersome indexes of the past. In addition to Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, and Robert the Strong, descents in this work are traced from the following ancestral lines: Saxon and English monarchs, Gallic monarchs, early kings of Scotland and Ireland, kings and princes of Wales, Gallo-Romans and Alsatians, Norman and French barons, the Riparian branch of the Merovingian House, Merovingian kings of France, Isabel de Vermandois, and William de Warenne.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317523

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9780806317526

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I

By: William D Brewer

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The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I

By: William D Brewer

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Taylor & Francis

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1000743888

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Book's by William St Clair

Autumn of the Black Snake

Autumn of the Black Snake

The American National State and the Early West

The American National State and the Early West

Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of New York

Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of New York

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

British Buckeyes

British Buckeyes

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I Vol 4

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I Vol 4

A Naval Biographical Dictionary - Volume 3

A Naval Biographical Dictionary - Volume 3

The Scottish Nation; or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland

The Scottish Nation; or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I

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