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  • The American Revolution in New Jersey

    Where the Battlefront Meets the Home Front

    by Michael Adelberg, Todd W. Braisted, Larry Kidder, Bruce Bendler, Eleanor H McConnell, Robert A Selig, Donald E Sherblom, Gregory F Walsh ...
    Series series Rivergate Regionals Collection
    Winner of the 2016 New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Authors Award for the Edited Works CategoryBattles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The American Revolution in Monmouth County: The Theatre of Spoil and Destruction

    by Michael S. Adelberg ...
    Series series Military
    Michael S. Adelberg brings to life the struggles within Monmouth County, a place that New Jersey governor William Livingston called "the theatre of spoil and destruction." Like much of New Jersey during the American Revolution, Monmouth County was contested territory in between the great armies. As the Battles of Trenton, Princeton and Bound Brook raged nearby, the people of Monmouth County fought ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Razing of Tinton Falls: Voices from the American Revolution

    by Michael S. Adelberg ...
    On June 10, 1779, a Loyalist raiding party landed on the shore of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and advanced unnoticed on the town of Tinton Falls. It captured five leading Patriots and plundered many others. Homes and barns were burned to the ground; stores were looted and livestock driven off. The local militia scattered. That afternoon, as the raiders loaded their barges, a reinforced militia ... Read more

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  • George Washington's Secret Six

    The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

    by Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger ...
    *Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring’s most secret member, Agent 355“This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here’s the action.” —BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of DecodedWhen George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Whiskey Rebellion

    George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Fro

    by William Hogeland ...
    A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority.In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania, local gangs of insurgents with blackened faces began to attack federal officials, beating and torturing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fatal Sunday

    George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle

    by Mark Edward Lender, Garry Wheeler Stone, Ph.D ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Fought on Sunday, June 28, 1778, Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington's critics might well have marshaled the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Bowery

    The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

    by Stephen Paul DeVillo ...
    From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it.It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well.The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • No Turning Point

    The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective

    by Theodore Corbett ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 ended with British general John Burgoyne’s troops surrendering to the American rebel army commanded by General Horatio Gates. Historians have long seen Burgoyne’s defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on the side of the colonies, thus ensuring American victory. But that traditional view of Saratoga overlooks ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Shadow Soldiers of the American Revolution

    Loyalist Tales from New York to Canada

    by Mark Jodoin ...
    The little-known true stories of ten British loyalists who fled to Canada during the American Revolution, then came back to try to reclaim their land.In 1778, New York State Patriots forced colonists loyal to the British government to flee north into what became Ontario and Quebec. Many of the defiant young British Americans soon returned south—as soldiers, spies, and scouts to fight for their ... Read more

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  • The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn

    by Henry P. Johnston ...
    The site now occupied by the city of New York is pre-eminently "Revolutionary soil." Very few of our historic places are more closely associated with the actual scenes of that struggle. As at Boston in 1775, so here in 1776, we had the war at our doors and all about us. In the present volume the record of what has occured is given as a single connected account, with many additional particulars ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary New Castle

    The Struggle for Independence

    by Theodore Corbett ...
    Though New Castle did not see any battles during the American Revolution, it was the Delaware's Colonial capital, and at it was at the center of the rebellion in the state. Its village green, still present today, served as a venue for early forums where colonists aired their grievances with the British government. Though it was considered more radical and inclined towards rebellion than the rest ... Read more

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  • New Jersey Hessians

    Truth and Lore in the American Revolution

    by Peter T. Lubrecht ...
    Series series American Legends
    During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still ... Read more

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