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 Through the use of previously unpublished materials, Zucker's biography challenged previous views of de Kalb and depicts his relationship with Lafayette.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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... gave me his address , and in half an hour I had come to the end of my search . This fine French gentleman , also an octogenarian , told me it was his father who had permitted Doniol to use the letters . After an hour of conversation ...
... gave me his address , and in half an hour I had come to the end of my search . This fine French gentleman , also an octogenarian , told me it was his father who had permitted Doniol to use the letters . After an hour of conversation ...
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... gave a dinner in his honor . For personal reasons Gloucester disliked his brother cordially , and was quite frank in differing with him concerning his policy toward the American colonists . With evident satisfaction he told of American ...
... gave a dinner in his honor . For personal reasons Gloucester disliked his brother cordially , and was quite frank in differing with him concerning his policy toward the American colonists . With evident satisfaction he told of American ...
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... gave to his comportment a cast of amiability , extremely ingratiating , exciting confidence and esteem . Although nearer seventy than sixty years of age , such had been the temperance of his life that he not only enjoyed to the last day ...
... gave to his comportment a cast of amiability , extremely ingratiating , exciting confidence and esteem . Although nearer seventy than sixty years of age , such had been the temperance of his life that he not only enjoyed to the last day ...
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Preface | 1 |
Introduction | 7 |
Apprenticeship under Marshals Saxe and Lowendal | 30 |
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