1st Edition
Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution
By Russell Lawson
Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 2011, this volume publishes the letters of Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard. The letters encompassed twenty years, from 1779 to 1798, during a time when the United States was warring against England, establishing new governments, building a national identity, exploring the hinterland, and refining an American identity in prose and verse. The letters of Hazard and Belknap... Read more
Prologue: Epistlers of the Revolution. 1 Commencement of a Civil War 2. Melted Majesty 3. Barren as a Pitch-Pine Plain 4. Life of a Cabbage 5. Hurried through Life on Horseback 6. Touch and Go is a Good Pilot 7. War and GREET Brittain 8. Keeping the Belly and Back from Grumbling, and the Kitchen-Fire from Going Out 9. The Mysteries of Lucina 10. Patience and Flannel Epilogue: Let Passion be Restrain’d within thy Soul
Biography
Russell M. Lawson is Adjunct Professor of History, Northeastern State University, USA.
