The Revolutionary War

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ART REBELLION, part civil war, part world conflict, the American Revolution — more than seven years of blood and bitterness — gave birth to a nation and direction to a people. Beginning in a tiny New England town, with "the shot heard round the world," it ended with mighty armies and navies clashing in the far corners of the globe. This book captures it all.
Author Bart McDowell, of the National Geographic Senior Staff, lives in Virginia's historic Fairfax County. He and his family have made frequent trips to nearby Mount Vernon, to Philadelphia and Williamsburg, and to many other historical sites. From those trips this book has emerged.
Their travels — like the war itself — ranged from wintry Quebec to the humid swamps of the South; across the Delaware River on Christmas Eve and to Philadelphia's Independence Hall on a steaming Fourth of July. The McDowells tramped through snowdrifts to visit Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge and strolled through Charleston, South... Tovább

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ART REBELLION, part civil war, part world conflict, the American Revolution — more than seven years of blood and bitterness — gave birth to a nation and direction to a people. Beginning in a tiny New England town, with "the shot heard round the world," it ended with mighty armies and navies clashing in the far corners of the globe. This book captures it all.
Author Bart McDowell, of the National Geographic Senior Staff, lives in Virginia's historic Fairfax County. He and his family have made frequent trips to nearby Mount Vernon, to Philadelphia and Williamsburg, and to many other historical sites. From those trips this book has emerged.
Their travels — like the war itself — ranged from wintry Quebec to the humid swamps of the South; across the Delaware River on Christmas Eve and to Philadelphia's Independence Hall on a steaming Fourth of July. The McDowells tramped through snowdrifts to visit Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge and strolled through Charleston, South Carolina, on a beautiful spring day.
This book will take you, as it took the McDowell family, across the land of the colonists to relive their victories and defeats. You will meet the heroes and the villains of America's fight for freedom —Benjamin Franklin, Benedict Arnold, Thomas Jefferson, King George III, and Bloody Tarleton, and, of course, Gen. George Washington, towering above them all.
To tell the story of the Revolutionary War in pictures, researchers canvassed the museums and art galleries of the world and selected almost 200 paintings and photographs. More than a dozen maps and battle paintings commissioned for this book help make its pages exciting and memorable. Vissza