Forgotten Patriot

Author : J. Lee Thompson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838641217
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriot written by J. Lee Thompson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work covers the entire sweep of Milner's career, exploring fully in themselves overlooked areas, including Milner's place in the newspaper "information milieu," his attempts to bring working men into the Unionist fold (before, during, and after the Great War), his conspiratorial role in the 1914 Ulster Crisis, his key, but mostly forgotten, place in the First World War, the Peace of Paris and, throughout, his private life. The book reveals, as has no other, relationships with Margot Tennant (later Asquith), to whom Milner first proposed marriage, his mistress Cecile Duval, the novelist Elinor Glyn, and his two-decades-long liaison with Violet Cecil, who became his wife in 1921, only four years before Milner's death."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lee P. Anderson
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781581126358
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriot written by Lee P. Anderson and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Biography of one of Americas first hero's. Nathanael Greene was a Quaker from Rhode Island who abandoned his religious upbringing and strived to learn more than only what he found in his own backyard. Educated by some of the greatest minds of the late eighteenth century, as well as be self-taught, Nathanael Greene became a master of human nature, politics and military tactics. As a young man he served in the Rhode Island Assembly prior to the Revolutionary War and with a fever pitched love of freedom, soon joined the members of the Sons of Liberty in their quest for independence from their oppressor, England. With the onset of the Revolutionary War, Greene joined the militia as a private and rocketed to the rank of Brigadier General in less than a year. He soon would be George Washington's most trusted general and the most dreaded foe the British would face in the war. Contrary to what is in most history books, the war did not end in 1781, and Greene was alone in the American struggle to oust the British from our shores. For two years, Greene fought a bitterly contested war in the Southern States and ultimately emerged victorious. Denouncing the call of his fellow countrymen to enter politics, Nathanael Greene chose instead to settle down with his family and live the life of a gentleman farmer on his plantation in Georgia. The service and devotion Greene gave to his country has never been recognized and is long overdue. This author intends to rectify that situation.

Author : Brian Murphy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848895917
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriot written by Brian Murphy and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had been a busy few days for Adolf Hitler, but Douglas Hyde had not slipped his mind ... On 25 June 1938, Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland. His values stood in stark contrast to those of the continental dictator. As a Protestant nationalist and a leading figure in the language revival, he made the office an inclusive one and determined to be a president for all the people of Ireland. He also played a highly significant, but previously unheralded, role in the state's policy of neutrality during the Second World War. Hitler's fleeting fixation with Hyde was that the new presidency significantly diluted Ireland's bonds with the British Empire. The accepted wisdom is that Hyde's transition to the presidency was a seamless process, but new research shows it only came about on foot of a late political compromise. He may have been a compromise candidate, but with his non-partisan background, he was also an inspired choice. Forgotten Patriot shows Hyde's considerable impact on the development and perception of the office of President of Ireland.

Author : Eric Grundset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Eric Grundset and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By offering a documented listing of names of African Americans and Native Americans who supported the cause of the American Revolution, we hope to inspire the interest of descendents in the efforts of their ancestors and in the work of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786727047
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons -- more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed -- those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence -- and how much we have forgotten.

Author : Eleanor May Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriot: Robert Morris written by Eleanor May Young and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Stedman Nourse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forgotten Patriot written by Henry Stedman Nourse and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin Hickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785904738
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Shore written by Kevin Hickson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first academic biography of one of the leading thinkers of the Labour Party, Peter Shore.

Author : Eileen McGough
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781172102
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diarmuid Lynch written by Eileen McGough and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Saturday night 22 April 1916, a tense meeting in Dublin went on into the small hours to decide whether or not the Easter Rising would go ahead. Present at that meeting were Pádraig Pearse, Tomás MacDonagh, Joseph Plunkett and Seán MacDiarmada. The fifth man present at the all-night session, Diarmuid Lynch, was the only one still alive a month later. It is difficult to understand how Lynch, a member of the Supreme Council of the IRB, has been forgotten so completely. Lynch was at the heart of plans for the Rising and was aide-de-camp to James Connolly in the GPO. Initially sentenced to death, his sentence was commuted to ten years penal servitude because he was an American citizen. However, he was released on 16 June 1917. Immediately following his release, Lynch became active again, and along with Michael Collins and Thomas Ashe, participated in the reorganisation of the IRB. After the 1917 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, Lynch, like Collins, held three senior posts: in the IRB, Sinn Féin and in the Irish Volunteers. He was again arrested and deported to America in 1918. Lynch was elected, although still in the US, as a TD for the constituency of Cork South-East in the 1918 elections. In America he was working frenetically as the national secretary of the FOIF (Friends of Irish Freedom) organisation, but later sharp differences arose between De Valera and the FOIF about how funds raised in America should be spent. Lynch did not take part in the Civil War, but made several unsuccessful attempts to stop it.

Author : Francis London Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Neglected Incident and a Forgotten Patriot written by Francis London Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: