Title Landmarks of the American Revolution / Gary B. Nash

Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps Series American landmarks American landmarks (Oxford University Press) Contents Lexington Green -- Independence Hall, Independence National -- Valley Forge National Historic Park -- Marblehead Historic District -- Faneuil Hall -- Peyton Randolph House -- John and Abigail Adams House, Adams -- Johnson Hall -- Old Saint Mary's Episcopal Church -- Old South Meeting House -- Francis Hopkinson House -- Yorktown Battlefield, Colonial National Historic Park Summary In 1775, on the green of Lexington, Massachusetts, 2,200 British minutemen fired upon the local militia -- seventy colonial farmers and village artisans in total. The British suffered staggering losses: half of their troops died. And so began the American Revolution. In Landmarks of the American Revolution, fourteen key sites and numerous secondary locales show with rich detail and fascinating anecdotes where the War of Independence took place. In addition to the Lexington-Concord Battle Site, historian Gary Nash features Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed; John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the out-of-work, 28-year-old immigrant who went on to become one of the new nation's naval heroes lived; Peyton Randolph House in Williamsburg, Virginia, a place emblematic of African Americans' role in the war; and many other significant places of the American Revolution. A dynamic journey through history that reveals all sides in the war -- loyalists, patriots, African American, Native American, women, British -- Landmarks of the American Revolution brings to life how a new nation came to be Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Historic sites -- United States. HISTORY. Battlefields. Historic sites. Monuments. Regions & Countries - Americas. History & Archaeology. United States - General. SUBJECT United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Battlefields. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140142 United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Monuments. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008001321 United States -- History, Local. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140336 Subject United States. Genre/Form History. Local history. Form Electronic book LC no. 2002014152 ISBN 9781429440400 1429440406 9786610603145 6610603146 9780195128499 0195128494 1280603143 9781280603143

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