America Goes to War
A Social History of the Continental Army
One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum-beating, fire-eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence-minded farmer or hard-working artisan-turned-soldier is deeply ingrained in the national psyche. Charles Neimeyer here separates fact from fiction, revealing for the first time who really served in the army during the Revolution and why. His conclusions are startling. Because the army relied primarily on those not connected to the new American aristorcracy, the African Americans, Irish, Germans, Native Americans, laborer…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-5872-4
- EAN: 9780814758724
- Produktnummer: 21432191
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'160 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 26
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Charles Patrick Neimeyer
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