American War of Independence

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps early operations and illust...

In 1775 the British Empire was in crisis. While buried in debt from years of combat against the French, revolution was stirring in its wealthiest N...

Praise for Robert L. Tonsetics previous publications:takes an unflinching look at both the adventure and trauma of war while aiming to fill the gap...

Based on contemporary records and paintings, this book identifies each cavalry and infantry regiment and illustrates changes in uniforms, their fac...

The career of Guernsey-born Admiral James Saumarez reads like an early history of the Royal Navy. His first battle was against the American revolut...

General William Howe was the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the early campaigns of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). How...

When the Revolutionary War ended in victory in 1783, there remained the stupendous problem of how to establish a workable democratic government in ...

About sunset we made a stand, when I was wounded, having a Ball with the Wad shot through my left forearm & the fuse set my coat and shirt on f...

The American Revolutionary War, fought 250 years ago between Britain's North American colonies and the British colonial government, was a conflict ...

In The Letters of Mary Penry, Scott Paul Gordon provides unprecedented access to the intimate world of a Moravian single sister. This vast collecti...

The breathtaking latest installment in Bill OReilly and Martin Dugards mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era...

The first regiment of artillery in the American Continental Army was formed in 1775. During the American Civil War (1861-1865) artillery evolved fr...

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the James Bradford Best Biography Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicFinalist, Liter...

To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [Amer...

Edmund Burke (17301797) was a friend and advocate of America during the political crisis of the 1760s and the 1770s, and he spoke out eloquently an...

Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britains...

George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to c...

In late August 1776, a badly defeated Continental Army retreated from Long Island to Manhattan. By the end of September, George Washingtons inexper...

Before Washington, before Jefferson, before Franklin or John Adams, there was Lee--Richard Henry Lee, the First Founding Father.Richard Henry Lee w...

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

Identifying discrete geographical areas in order to better understand a conflict that moves across hundreds of thou- sands of square miles of land ...

The bitter and often bloody fight which accompanied the emergence of the United States of America as an independent force on the world stage has al...

The American Revolutionary War pitched the newly formed Continental Army against the professional British Redcoats a highly trained organization m...

Dr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot or ignored--an America of women, African-Americans, Jews...

With a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, The Struggle for Sea Power charts the greatest war in the age of sail.In 1775 thirteen isolated...

We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actua...

Russell Shortos work has been praised as first-rate intellectual history (Wall Street Journal), literary alchemy (Chicago Tribune) and simply aston...

George C. Daughan''s magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War ...

This is a blistering account of the battle of Cowpens, a short, sharp conflict which marked a crucial turning point in the American Revolution. Wit...

Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-...