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Brinckerhoff was born in 1724. He was the eldest child of Femmetje (née Remsen) Brinckerhoff (1703–1771) and Abraham Brinckerhoff (1701–1738). [1]Among his younger siblings was Altie Brinckerhoff, who married New York State Senator Abraham Adriance.
Wright was born and raised in Georgia. [1] She is the daughter of Charles Benjamin Rouse Sr. and Wauneithe Mitchell Rouse. [2] Her father, a Korean War veteran, was a recipient of the Good Conduct Medal, the China Service Medal, the Navy Occupation Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal Korea, and the Korean Service Medal with six stars.
Pauline Alice Maier (née Rubbelke; April 27, 1938 – August 12, 2013) was a revisionist [1] historian of the American Revolution, whose work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War.
"The expansion of American higher education" in K. H. Jarausch, ed., The transformation of higher learning 1860-1930 : expansion, diversification, social opening and professionalization in England, Germany, Russia and the United States (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1982) pp. 108–130).
At the time of the American Revolution, Allen was one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in Philadelphia. A Loyalist , Allen agreed that the colonies should seek to redress their grievances with British Parliament through constitutional means, and he disapproved of the movement toward independence.
The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution honors Desha and the other co-founders of the DAR. The first official meeting of the first chapter (branch) of the Daughters of the American Revolution began at 2 p.m. on October 11, 1890, in Strathmore Arms, the residence of Mary Smith Lockwood, one of the four co-founders. [3]
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 is a nonfiction book about the American Revolution written by American historian Robert Middlekauff.Covering the history of the American Revolution from around 1760 through to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, The Glorious Cause focuses mainly on the military history of the American Revolutionary War and on the ...
Turning to literary work as a way to overcome his losses and channel his ambitions, [19] he began writing a series of well-received articles for a prominent New England newspaper justifying and praising the American Revolution and arguing that the separation from Britain would be a permanent state of affairs. [20]