After embarking on an 8,000-mile journey through the 13 original colonies and Canada in 1848, Lossing published this travelogue, which chronicles virtually every fight and skirmish of the Revolutionary War, with the stories often gleaned from eyewitnesses or their children.
After embarking on an 8,000-mile journey through the 13 original colonies and Canada in 1848, Lossing published this travelogue, which chronicles virt...
Written in the mid 19th century for the popular press, Benson J Lossing's History of the Anglo-American war of 1812-1815, called the war of 1812 in America, details the clashes between the British, Native Americans and Americans during that bloody conflict. Lossing covers the war from the start of Hull's disastrous campaign to invade Canada to Jackson's brilliant defense of New Orleans against well seasoned British troops freed from the Napoleonic Wars, a battle that was fought and won by the Americans after the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war, was signed. Lossing's illustrations of the...
Written in the mid 19th century for the popular press, Benson J Lossing's History of the Anglo-American war of 1812-1815, called the war of 1812 in Am...
