France In The American Revolution

Author : Norman Desmarais
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612007021

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America's First Ally by Norman Desmarais Pdf

The Revolutionary War historian provides “a comprehensive and accessible guide” to the vital influence France had on America’s path to independence (Publishers Weekly). French support for United States independence was both vital and varied, ranging from ideological inspiration to financial and military support. In this study, historian Norman Desmarais offers an in-depth analysis of this crucial relationship, exploring whether America could have won its independence without its first ally. Demarais begins with the contributions of French Enlightenment thinkers who provided the intellectual frameworks for the American and French revolutions. He then covers the many forms of aid provided by France during the Revolutionary War, including the contributions of individual French officers and troops, as well as covert aid provided before the war began. France also provided naval assistance, particularly to the American privateers who harassed British shipping. Detailed accounts drawn from ships’ logs, court and auction records, newspapers, letters, diaries, journals, and pension applications. In a more sweeping analysis, Desmarais explores the international nature of a war which some consider the first world war. When France and Spain entered the conflict, they fought the Crown forces in their respective areas of economic interest. In addition to the engagements in the Atlantic Ocean, along the American and European coasts and in the West Indies, there are accounts of action in India and the East Indies, South America and Africa.

Author : Thomas Balch
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 0839801858

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The French in America During the War of Independence of the United States, 1777-1783 by Thomas Balch Pdf

Author : James Breck Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UCM:5322195070

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France in the American Revolution by James Breck Perkins Pdf

Author : Tom Shachtman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250146144

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How the French Saved America by Tom Shachtman Pdf

Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America. To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even before the Declaration of Independence was issued, King Louis XVI and French foreign minister Vergennes were aiding the rebels. After the Declaration, that assistance broadened to include wages for our troops; guns, cannon, and ammunition; engineering expertise that enabled victories and prevented defeats; diplomatic recognition; safe havens for privateers; battlefield leadership by veteran officers; and the army and fleet that made possible the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. Nearly ten percent of those who fought and died for the American cause were French. Those who fought and survived, in addition to the well-known Lafayette and Rochambeau, include François de Fleury, who won a Congressional Medal for valor, Louis Duportail, who founded the Army Corps of Engineers, and Admiral de Grasse, whose sea victory sealed the fate of Yorktown. This illuminating narrative history vividly captures the outsize characters of our European brothers, their battlefield and diplomatic bonds and clashes with Americans, and the monumental role they played in America’s fight for independence and democracy.

Author : Friedrich von Gentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : France
ISBN : PRNC:32101064004300

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The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution by Friedrich von Gentz Pdf

Author : Valérie Bajou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 2353402461

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Versailles and the American Revolution by Valérie Bajou Pdf

- Published to accompany an outstanding exhibition at the Palace of Versailles, July 5 - October 17, 2016 This catalog is a collective work bringing together contributions from French, American, and British specialists in this field, to shed light on the importance of the relationship between France and America in the closing years of the Ancien Régime. During the reign of Louis XVI, the Palace of Versailles - the seat of power and government in France - played a crucial role in the history of America, in its struggle for independence, and in the recognition of the United States by the great European powers. In tracing this remarkable story, the catalog demonstrates the constant interest displayed in the fledgling United States by the French monarchy. Richly illustrated throughout, it documents the events of the War of Independence, before exploring the consequences of the entry of France into the war, the siege of Yorktown, and the peace treaty signed at Versailles in 1783. Finally, it analyzes the origins and development of the mythology of the 'American Revolution' in both France and the United States, a source of enduring inspiration for artists and history painters.

Author : Diana R. Hallman,César A. Leal
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783277001

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America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914 by Diana R. Hallman,César A. Leal Pdf

Following the American Revolution, French observers often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, in affinity with and divergence from France's own Revolutionary ideals and experiences. The volume examines French views through musical/theatrical portrayals of the American Revolution and Republic, soundscapes of the Statue of Liberty, and homages to the glorified figures of Washington, Franklin and Lafayette. Essays investigate paradoxical depictions of slavery in the United States and French Caribbean colonies of 'Amérique'. French critiques of American music and musicians, including the reception of Americanized or Creolized adaptations of European art traditions as well as American popular music and dance, are also presented. The subject of race features prominently in French interpretations of American music and identity. These interpretations see French constructions of the Indigenous American and African American "exotic" that intersect with tropes of noble, pastoral savagery, menacing barbarism, and the "civilizing" potency of French culture. The French reinterpretation of African American music and dance reveals both a revulsion of Black alterity and an attraction to the expressive freedom, and even subversiveness, of these "foreign" forms of music and dance. Contributions include essays by music, dance, theatre and opera scholars, and the volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of these disciplines.

Author : Charles Downer Hazen,John Fiske
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9788026899563

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The American Revolution & The French Revolution by Charles Downer Hazen,John Fiske Pdf

The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1774 to 1849 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas. The period is noted for the change in government from absolutist monarchies to constitutionalist states and republics. Two most significant events of the period were the American Revolution and the French Revolution. This edition will give you the complete insight into these events, explaining the causes, connections and consequences of these two major revolutions that changed the entire course of human history.

Author : James B. Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0879281294

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France in the American Revolution by James B. Perkins Pdf

Author : Laura Charlotte Sheldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015004024249

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France and the American Revolution, 1763-1778 by Laura Charlotte Sheldon Pdf

Author : Samuel Flagg Bemis
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641773768

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The Diplomacy of the American Revolution by Samuel Flagg Bemis Pdf

"To the superficial observer there would seem never to have been an age less propitious for the birth of a new nation. The tendency of the times was altogether for the aggrandizement of big states and the consolidation of their territory at the expense of the little ones, for the extinction of the weaker nations and governments rather than for the creation of new ones. Nevertheless it was this bitter cut-throat international rivalry which was to make American independence possible." On April 15th, 1783, the Articles of Peace between the United States and Great Britain went into effect proclaiming that “His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the United States…to be free Sovereign and independent States.” That recognition, the origins of which began almost seven years earlier in Philadelphia, the fate of which was uncertain at Valley Forge and ultimately vindicated at Yorktown, represented a monumental achievement for the new American nation. It also, as Samuel Flagg Bemis shows us, marked the end of a world war. This book explains the ambitions and interests of European powers during the American Revolution. France’s search for revenge against Britain after the French and Indian War, Spain’s attempt to retake Gibraltar, the complicated trade interests of the Netherlands and Russia, Austria’s fears of a two-front war – each of these saw America’s struggle for independence as an event that affected their own strategies. And, as Bemis shows us, it is through that prism that we should consider the actions of those who supported America and Great Britain.

Author : James Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537018183

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France in the American Revolution by James Perkins Pdf

James Breck Perkins was an American Congressman and historian. Perkins was a leading authority on parts of French history and his most famous work is the book France in the American Revolution.France in the American Revolution discusses in great detail the pivotal role France played in the Revolutionary War.

Author : Carine Lounissi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319752891

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Thomas Paine and the French Revolution by Carine Lounissi Pdf

This book explores Thomas Paine's French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802. It examines Paine's multifarious activities during this period as a thinker, writer, member of the French Convention, lobbyist, adviser to French governments, officious diplomat and propagandist. Using previously neglected sources and archival material, Carine Lounissi demonstrates both how his republicanism was challenged, bolstered and altered by this French experience, and how his positions at key moments of the history of the French experiment forced major participants in the Revolution to defend or question the kind of regime or of republic they wished to set up. As a member of the Lafayette circle when writing the manuscript of Rights of Man, of the Girondin constellation in the Convention, one of the few democrats who defended universal suffrage after Thermidor, and as a member of the Constitutional Circle which promoted a kind of republic which did not match his ideas, Paine baffled his contemporaries and still puzzles the present-day scholar. This book intends to offer a new perspective on Paine, and on how this major agent of revolutions contributed to the debate on the French Revolution both in France and outside France.

Author : Larrie D. Ferreiro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101910306

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Brothers at Arms by Larrie D. Ferreiro Pdf

Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award At the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the American colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts Larrie Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have succeeded. Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy.

Author : James Breck Perkins
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341655113

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France in the American Revolution by James Breck Perkins Pdf

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