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Há 1 dia · General Charles Cornwallis that spring dispatched a cavalry force led by Banastre Tarleton to capture Jefferson and members of the Assembly at Monticello, but Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia thwarted the British plan. Jefferson escaped to Poplar Forest, his plantation to the west.
Há 9 horas · Whereas the British, and particularly Charles Cornwallis in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, chased previous losses and setbacks by fighting doggedly to the bitter end. Cornwallis lost a quarter of his men in that particular battle, taking risks that precipitated the end of the American Revolution and the beginning of the United States as an independent nation.
Há 9 horas · Pages 295-298. Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 24, Addenda, 1605-1668.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.
Há 9 horas · Critics have been near-unanimous in their praise for “The Word is Murder” as a dazzlingly clever, endlessly entertaining deconstruction of the mystery genre powered by Horowitz’s signature narration sleights-of-hand. Reviews have highlighted the novel’s deliriously self-aware pleasures layered atop an immensely satisfying core of ...
Há 9 horas · Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 15, 1691-1696.Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Há 9 horas · His regiment served in Virginia under General Charles Lee and was transferred to George Washington. The regiment thereafter saw action at the Battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston. During Cornwallis's Virginia campaign in 1781, the notorious Colonel Tarleton ransacked his home.
Há 9 horas · Pax Romana. Literally, it means “Roman peace”, a period of around 200 years from 27 BC to 180 AD with relative peace and order. In the moder...
