Light Horse Harry: A Biography of Washington's great cavalryman, General Henry Lee by Noel Garson

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I started “Light Horse Harry” in hopes of learning about a Revolutionary figure of whom I had only a superficial familiarity.  I knew he was the failed father of Robert E. Lee to whom left little other than an historic name.  I found a much more si

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A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic by Henry Mayer

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As War History Network members know, war often originates in political realms and is fought by politicians as well as soldiers and sailors.  Patrick Henry is one politician inextricably entwined in the American Revolution.  His place in American hi

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Crisis At The Chesapeake: The Royal Navy and the Struggle for America 1775-1783 by Quintin Barry

 

To War History Network members familiar with George Washington and a few Revolutionary War battles, the introductory, theme setting statement: “There was in the end no way in which the Americans could have ultimately been denied their independence;

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Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth by Holger Hoock

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Histories of the American Revolution ordinarily feature wise Founding Fathers, military heroes and, in the end at least, glorious triumph.  “Scars of Independence” presents the image of a violent struggle, not between freedom-loving Americans and t

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John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger

Revolutions need organizers and nations need Founders before armies take to the fields.  For the United States one such organizer and founder was John Hancock.  Heir to the House of Hancock established by his childless uncle, he turned his inheritanc

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George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved The American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger

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War History Network members often look for the story behind the headlines and "George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution" takes the reader behind the shades into the world of espionage.

The heart of the story i

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A Very Fine Regiment: The 47th Foot during the American War of Independence, 1773-1783

American readers usually approach the Revolutionary War/War of Independence through American eyes. A Very Fine Regiment is an opportunity to read about it from the perspective of a British Regiment.  The 47^th Foot that was involved in many of the Re

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