General de KalbUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1966 - 251 էջ Originally published in 1966, A. E. Zucker presented the first modern biography of General de Kalb, a German by birth who held the rank of major general in the Continental Army and died at the Battle of Camden during the American Revolutionary War. Through the use of previously unpublished materials, Zucker's biography challenged previous views of de Kalb and depicts his relationship with Lafayette. |
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Adolf Eduard Zucker. CHAPTER XII VALLEY FORGE Valley Forge , as every schoolboy knows , signifies the epitome of bitter suffering of Washington's army . The General himself summed it up in one vivid phrase : " You might have tracked the ...
Adolf Eduard Zucker. CHAPTER XII VALLEY FORGE Valley Forge , as every schoolboy knows , signifies the epitome of bitter suffering of Washington's army . The General himself summed it up in one vivid phrase : " You might have tracked the ...
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... Valley Forge . The decision was taken out of his hands by the Pennsylvania Executive Council , which sent a letter to Congress demanding that the army should be kept within twenty or thirty miles of Philadelphia ; in fact , it was laid ...
... Valley Forge . The decision was taken out of his hands by the Pennsylvania Executive Council , which sent a letter to Congress demanding that the army should be kept within twenty or thirty miles of Philadelphia ; in fact , it was laid ...
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... ) N.J. November 27 , 1778 ... It is unnecessary to add that the troops must again have recourse to the expedient of hutting as they did last year , but as they are now well clad , and we have 182 Worse than Valley Forge.
... ) N.J. November 27 , 1778 ... It is unnecessary to add that the troops must again have recourse to the expedient of hutting as they did last year , but as they are now well clad , and we have 182 Worse than Valley Forge.
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Preface | 1 |
Introduction | 7 |
Apprenticeship under Marshals Saxe and Lowendal | 30 |
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