Titres dans Révolution américaine

Francis Marion was probably the most romantic figure to emerge from the American Revolutionary War. Of Huguenot ancestry, Marion was descended from a French family fleeing the religious persecutions of Louis XIV. Listen to this great history as you learn how Marion used guerrilla tactics to defeat one British force after another. It is a thrilling tale of patriotism, determination, and sacrifice.

Wandeln Sie auf den Spuren des berühmten wie berüchtigten Apachen-Kriegers Geronimo und lassen Sie sich von seiner wechselvollen Lebensgeschichte voller Höhen und Tiefen, Siege und Niederlagen inmitten der Indianerkriege mitreißen! Am Ende seines Lebens angelangt, erinnert sich Geronimo an seine Zeit als junger Mann: Die Apachen müssen damals in den brutalen Indianerkriegen gleichzeitig gegen die US-Amerikaner und die Mexikaner kämpfen. Beide Nationen gehen mit äußerster Brutalität und Gnadenlosigkeit vor.

America’s first female soldier, Deborah Sampson tells the story of America’s birth. She was the descendant of those who sailed the Mayflower, Myles Standish and William Bradford. Growing up in a destitute family in Plympton, Massachusetts, Deborah was inspired by her maternal grandmother, Bathsheba Bradford, abandoned by her father, neglected by her morose mother, separated from her starving siblings, and finally sold into indentured servitude. Her rise from her disastrous childhood, her decision to masquerade as a man, her fervor to fight for her liberty, is the story of America.

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents. Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood finds...

Are you searching for true heroes your children can look up to—heroes who shaped a nation and modeled godly values? Step into the earliest days of America’s fight for freedom with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 1, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence.

Step into the pivotal years of America’s fight for freedom with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 3, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence.

Step into the final chapters of America’s fight for freedom and the birth of a nation with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 4, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence and the founding era. Learn American History While Building Godly Character From daring espionage to the halls of Congress, you’ll meet ten real heroes, each demonstrating a powerful character quality: Availability ~ Emily Geiger Cautiousness ~ James Armistead Courage ~ Jordan Freeman Decisiveness ~ Gen.

Are you searching for true heroes your children can look up to? Step into the turning point of America’s fight for freedom with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 2, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence.

Robert Rogers, commander of Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War, was the war's best-known colonial military hero and, in the ensuing peace, one of the best-known Americans of any description, rivaling Benjamin Franklin in popularity. Rogers is known today for his role in developing the mystique of the modern Ranger, but what explains his meteoric rise and his long, depressing fall? Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon by Martin Klotz is a fresh look at the life of this famous, yet highly flawed man.

What do George Whitefield, Elisabeth Elliot, and J. Gresham Machen have in common? They were all Evangelical Heroes. In the Evangelical Heroes series, Joel Beeke and Douglas Bond present thirty biographical sketches of faithful evangelical leaders from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth...

The Revolutionary War is raging, and 12-year-old Christopher Hawkins runs away to follow his dream of being a sailor and a patriot. During his first sea adventure, the British capture his ship. Quick-witted Christopher escapes at his first opportunity. At 17, Christopher joins another American privateer ship but is soon captured by the British. This time, he is delivered to the notorious British ship HMS Jersey, the war’s deadliest prison. Armed with only courage, cunning, and a sense of humor, Christopher Hawkins will face death unless he can escape from his British captors twice more.

Our American Revolution for Beginners audiobook is written in a style and structure that makes listening and immersing yourself in history as enjoyable and captivating as possible. You'll witness the daring strategies, meet the real revolutionaries, and finally understand what pushed colonists to fight for independence.

Buried in archives and forgotten for centuries, the voices of the Revolution are finally revealed in Lost Letters of the American Revolution. This extraordinary collection of more than 100 authentic letters pulls back the curtain on the untold human drama of America’s fight for independence. Here are the words they never meant for us to see: spies sending coded messages in lemon juice, desperate mothers begging Congress for food and shelter, soldiers marching to their deaths, and enslaved men pleading for the liberty they were promised but denied.

America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a...

It takes more than musket fire and patriotic slogans. It takes sustained sacrifice, political clarity, and the courage to fight when the odds say surrender. In Blood and Liberty: 10 Truths About the Fight for Freedom, former U.S. military strategist Korey Blathewick strips away the romantic haze of the American Revolution and reveals the raw truth of what it took to break an empire—and build a republic.

Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall.

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, Congress's Cryptographer brings to life the most important Revolutionary War figure you have never heard of — James Lovell, America's first de facto Secretary of Foreign Affairs, master cryptographer, and the man whose code-breaking helped seal victory at Yorktown.

Benjamin Franklin was more than just a Founding Father of the United States—he was a visionary, a scientist, a diplomat, and an intellectual giant whose legacy continues to shape the world today. In The Architect of a Nation: Unveiling the Legacy of Benjamin Franklin, Arley Ballenger provides a comprehensive and captivating biography of this extraordinary figure, exploring how Franklin's ideas, inventions, and diplomacy helped forge the United States into the nation it is today.

George Rogers Clark was an American general during the Revolutionary War—the epic conflict in which the newly formed United States of America broke free from British rule. A seasoned frontiersman, he became a leading figure in the expansion of the American frontier into what was then known as the Northwest Territory. Before states like Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky even existed, Clark was actively charting their course. When the Revolutionary War erupted, George Rogers Clark did not hesitate to answer the call to action.

James Thompson is a "forensic historian" who explains what once (really) happened in carefully documented causal sequences. In his American Revolutions Series, Thompson reconstructs how the amazing prophecy Alexis de Tocqueville made in 1840 came true. "The First Revolutions in the Minds of the People" is the first book in this four-book series.