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Metz, E: I Was a Teenager in the American Revolution
Autor: Elizabeth Ryan Metz
This book relates the Revolutionary War experiences of twenty-three teenagers. Drawing on firsthand accounts of young Americans from Massachusetts to South Carolina, it provides a fascinating, varied look at America's fight for independence and teenagers?... Viac o knihe
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This book relates the Revolutionary War experiences of twenty-three teenagers. Drawing on firsthand accounts of young Americans from Massachusetts to South Carolina, it provides a fascinating, varied look at America's fight for independence and teenagers? role in this struggle for liberty. Israel Trask joined the militia at the age of ten; by the time he turned twelve he was serving at sea. Abigail Foote, a fifteen-year-old from Connecticut, wove cloth, sewed clothes, weeded the garden and made cheese, providing much needed clothing and food. Thirteen-year-old Henry Yeager barely escaped hanging for his army role as drummer. Dicey Langston, only sixteen when the war began, risked her life to pass loyalist information to the patriots. Excerpts from their journals and memoirs make up the body of the text, with editorial apparatus to clarify time and place. Appendices provide a chronology of events and a glossary of sailing terms.
- Vydavateľstvo: McFarland
- Rok vydania: 2006
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780786425099
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