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WHEN FATE SUMMONS: A Biography of General Richard Butler, 1743 - 1791
Harry Ward
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 247 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This monograph is the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the old Northwest. Butler, an Irish born merchant ,trader and soldier on the uneasy borderlands of European settlement and tribal territory, made his way to influence via a keen linguistic ability, strong sympathies for native peoples (prior to the revolution) and an instinctual military ability that brought him a colonel-ship in the Revolution and a major generalship in the tiny new federal army that confronted renewed hostilities during the Confederation and Federal ... Read more
This monograph is the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the old Northwest. Butler, an Irish born merchant ,trader and soldier on the uneasy borderlands of European settlement and tribal territory, made his way to influence via a keen linguistic ability, strong sympathies for native peoples (prior to the revolution) and an instinctual military ability that brought him a colonel-ship in the Revolution and a major generalship in the tiny new federal army that confronted renewed hostilities during the Confederation and Federal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academica Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Bethesda, United States
ISBN
9781936320844
SKU
V9781936320844
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99-1
About Harry Ward
Harry Ward is William Binford Vest Professor of History, University of Richmond, USA. He is the author of The American Revolution: Nationhood Achieved 1763 - 1788, St.Martins Press, 1995 (CHOICE Outstanding Book of the Year) and The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society, University of London Press/Routledge,1999 as well as ''Going Down Hill'': Legacies of the American ... Read more
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