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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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2016]
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469627540_cox |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.