BOATNER : Landmarks of the American Revolution (fülszöveg)
A "landmark" in itself — 200 years later — guide to the places made memorable by people or events in the Revolutionary Era (1763–1783)...
...a pioneer effort to inventory and describe places that have important — or merely interesting — associations with the American Revolution. Finding the imprint of the Rebels, the redcoats, and the Tories in what are now 27 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada, Boatner describes the spots — many of them still unspoiled — where history happened. Ranging from the minuscule to the monumental, he covers the places where there is much to be seen by the casual tourist as well as those that are meaningful only to serious students, specialists, and adults with a deep sense of history and intellectual curiosity.
This distinguished historical author provides an introduction to each state that recapitulates its Revolutionary War history, evaluates local efforts to preserve and mark historic sites, and gives sources of current information produced annually by local tourist and historical agencies. Enough historical background is given for each site to indicate its significance, the most detail being provided for those where information is least likely to be found at the location.
The impression made by a visit to the actual site of a historical event is often stronger than that received from reading hundreds of words about it. Without any desire to shatter patriotic pride, Boatner is careful to point out the falsehoods that may be perpetuated at a given site by well-meaning but misguided or ill-informed custodians.
Drawing heavily on primary source material, extensive correspondence with regional historians, and personal inspection, Boatner has put together a reference to be used with confidence. He pinpoints skirmish and battle sites, taverns and other public places where major events occurred, bridges, graves, historic houses, churches, monuments, and restored areas. In addition to the well-known and extensively developed historic landmarks such as the battlefields of Saratoga and Yorktown, famous architectural treasures such as the Chew Mansion and Mount Vernon, historic districts such as that at Annapolis, Philadelphia, and Schenectady, this guide includes many important sites omitted from popular tourist literature. A brief random sampling reveals such listings as:
The Arnold Trail, Maine and Canada Parker's Ferry, South Carolina
Newgate Prison (Simsbury Copper Mines), Connecticut
Briar Creek and Kettle Creek Battlefields, Georgia
Chiswell Lead Mines, Virginia Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois Sycamore Shoals, Tennessee
The search for landmarks — some nearly obliterated by "progress" — and the careful regard for the minutiae of the past to establish the pattern of history into which each fits, result in a lively text that becomes a standard reference guide for all who might want to visit, or just read about places, events, and people of the Revolution.
This comprehensive, cross-referenced, and indexed work is the indispensable guide for today's Bicentennial planners and lovers of history... and for future generations who will want to study, mark, visit, preserve, or commemorate the spots where it all began.
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