For liberty and glory Washington, Lafayette, and their revolutions /
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 cou...
| Main Author: | Gaines, James R. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
[2007]
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 533 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The quest for glory
- Lexington and Versailles
- Endgames of the old regime
- La Victoire
- To Brandywine
- Another kind of crucible
- Enter France
- The beauty of a draw
- Showing their colors
- The ally and the traitor
- Into Virginia
- Yorktown
- The dark side of liberty
- Entr'acte
- Movements west and left
- Forms of bankruptcy
- Two conventions
- First blood
- Experiments in democracy
- Acts of defiance
- The spring of 1789
- Come the revolution
- Front lines
- Works of the guillotine
- Between Scylla and Charybdis
- Farewells
- Epilogue.