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| Call Number: | QC 945 .W721 2009 |
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Hurricane of independence: the untold story of the deadly storm at the deciding moment of the American Revolution |
| Author(s): | Williams, Tony. |
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| Description: | 320 p. |
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| Publication Data: | Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks, Inc. 2009 |
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| Identifier/s: | OCLC Record No.: 436784778/ ISBN: 978-1-4022-2123-1/ ISBN: 1-4022-2123-1/ LCCN: 2008015082/ Accession No.: 133201 |
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| Type of Item: | (BOOK)  |
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| Subjects: | 1. HURRICANES 2. REVOLUTIONARY WAR 3. SHIPWRECKS 4. STORMS |
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| Table of Contents : | Prologue: The storm of revolution
1. Tempest brewing
2. Impending doom on the Outer Banks
3. First strike: the hurricane of independence roars ashore
4. Norfolk: an attack on both sides
5. Tobacco and gunpowder
6. Landon Carter: diarist and planter-philosopher of the Northern Neck
7. The streets of Annapolis
8. Lightning and enlightenment
9. The colonies unite in Philadelphia against British tyranny
10. The radical, the President, and the general in Philadelphia
11. Striking the Second Continental Congress
12. The heroic collegian: Hamilton in New York
13. Whither the hurricane of independence?
14. War erupts
15. General Washington battles the British and the weather
16. Fishing for cod during the summer in Newfoundland
17. The hurricane
Epilogue: The providential American victory |
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| Availability: | Available on Interlibrary Loan |
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| Copies: | - c.1: CIRCULATION - BOOKS [Status: IN]
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