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James Levi Barton (1855–1936) was an American Protestant missionary and educator who devoted his life to establishing and administering schools and colleges in the Near East, and overseeing Near East relief efforts before and after World War I.
Soldiers and Sailors of France in the America War for Independence. 1920. Metzger, Charles H. The Prisoner in the American Revolution. 1971. Milsop, John. Continental Infantryman of the American Revolution. 2004. Neimeyer, Charles Patrick. America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army (1995) complete text online; Peterson, Harold L.
War Party (released in the Philippines as Toy Soldiers Too) is a 1988 film directed by Franc Roddam and starring Billy Wirth and Kevin Dillon. Set in present-day Montana , it explores the tension and mistrust that can characterize interactions between Native Americans and White Americans .
This book has as one of its main focuses Barton's capture of General Prescott and Barton's life after the war, including the story of his spending 14 years in a Vermont debtors' prison. Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Revised ed. New York: McKay, 1974. ISBN 0-8117-0578-1. Falkner, Leonard.
The book was controversial in his hometown, where many people took issue with his fictional portrayal. [19] Trumbo started working in movies in 1937 but continued writing prose. His anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. [20]
In May 2019, the first book in the Revolution Trilogy, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777 [22], was published by Henry Holt and edited, as all of Atkinson's books have been, by John Sterling. The New York Times selected The British Are Coming for its 100 Notable Books of 2019. [23]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cotton, James Sutherland (1898). "Stedman, Charles". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 125–126. Endnotes: John Stedman's Memoir of the Family of Barton, continued through that of Stedman, privately printed ...
James Arnold Horowitz [2] (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force , he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first ...