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Major General Israel Putnam
Hero of the American Revolution
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Artikel-Nr:
9781476664538
Veröffentl:
2017
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.04.2017
Seiten:
258
Autor:
Robert Ernest Hubbard
Gewicht:
424 g
Format:
229x152x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Robert Ernest Hubbard is a retired professor from Albertus Magnus College and an adjunct faculty member in the college's Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program. Webmaster of websites on General Israel Putnam and on entertainer Phil Silvers, he lives in Connecticut.
A colorful figure of 18th-century America, Israel Putnam (1718-1790) played a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. In 1758 he barely escaped from being burned alive by Mohawk warriors. He later commanded a force of 500 men who were shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba. It was he who reportedly gave the command ""Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"" at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Detailing Putnam's close relationships with Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and John and Abigail Adams, this first full-length biography of Putnam in more than a century re-examines the life of a revolutionary whose seniority in the Continental Army was second only to that of George Washington.