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Author
Series
Nathan Hale's hazardous tales volume 8
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 400L
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Marquis de Lafayette: what happened before and during the American Revolution, including all the Frenchman's escapades across France and the colonies.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Few in history can match the breadth and depth of the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought as one with righteous revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic. As an idealistic and courageous teenager serving in the American Revolution, he used his considerable wealth and savvy to help the Americans defeat the British. Then he returned home, and was a principal...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.
Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon; that same night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions...
Author
Series
Williamsburg volume 1
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The young daughter of the town drunk sets her heart on Williamsburg's new schoolmaster, recently arrived from England on the eve of the Revolutionary War.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the French general and statesman who was instrumental in persuading France to aid the colonists in the American Revolution and then returned to participate in the political scene in his own country.
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