Boy soldiers of the American Revolution /

"Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy...

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Tác giả chính: Cox, Caroline, 1954-2014 (Tác giả)
Tác giả khác: Middlekauff, Robert (writer of foreword.)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1074907
Mục lục:
  • Introduction: As well as I can recollect
  • Answer the purpose
  • A strong desire to enlist
  • My father caused me to enlist
  • He took his father's place
  • Fellow citizens.