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Lossing's Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution in Virginia & Maryland (Paperback)
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Lossing's Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution in Virginia & Maryland (Paperback)
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It was by the placid waters of the Chesapeake Bay that some of the
most dramatic scenes of the Revolutionary War were played out,
paving the way for the birth of a new nation. In Virginia and
Maryland, the struggle for independence from Great Britain was
finally won at battlefields and towns that stretch from Annapolis
to the Shenandoah Valley. In 1848, New Yorker Benson J. Lossing
embarked on a two-year trek that covered thousands of miles through
the original thirteen states and Canada. His mission was to collect
and preserve the stories of the men and women who had fought to
make the United States a reality. His original work was published
in 1850, consisting of two illustrated volumes comprising over
2,000 pages of first-hand history. In this edition, we have
excerpted the chapters that deal with the war in Virginia and
Maryland (including West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and the
Albemarle region of North Carolina). It was the scene of some of
the war's hardest fights.
Williamsburg...Richmond...Fredericksburg...Spencer's
Ordinary...Mount Pleasant...Blue Licks...the Battle of the
Capes...Yorktown...Norfolk...these are all places where the drama
of the American Revolution was played out. Benson J. Lossing tells
the stories of the heroes and villains of the war from the accounts
of the people who were there. The book includes illustrations of
the people and places that played such a big role in our nation's
founding, but that too often have been lost to the passing of time.
Lossing's account also tells the stories of Jamestown and the
English settlements at Roanoke. His descriptions of the trip he
took to gather the stories in this book are also a remarkable
portrait of what Americawas like in the decade before our nation's
second crucible by fire - the Civil War.
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