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(0)Walter R Borneman
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An account of the eighteenth-century war fought in the wildernesses between Nova Scotia and Ohio traces the campaigns to capture forts Ticonderoga, Duquesne, and Niagara, and chronicles the legendary battle of Quebec.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The first complete biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk's pledge to serve a single term, which many thought would make him a lame duck, enabled him to rise above electoral politics and to outflank his adversaries. Thus he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and most notably, brought Texas into the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks of the war were much more tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British Army.
