The Germans In The Making Of America - Softcover

Schrader, Frederick Franklin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406708410 ISBN 13: 9781406708417

Verlag: Koebel Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

How many of these same descendants know that to this people belong, by ancestry more or less remote, some of the first scientific men of America, such as the Mühlenbergs, Melsheimer, the "father of American entomology"; Leidy and Gross, the great surgeon; Herkimer, the hero of Oriskany; "Molly Pitcher," the heroine of Monmouth; Post, the Indian missionary, to whom Parkman himself pays a noble tribute; Heckewalder, the Moravian lexicographer of the speech of the Delawares; Armistead, the defender of Fort McHenry in the war of 1812, whose flag, "still there," inspired the Star Spangled Banner; Barbara Frietchie, and General Custer? Surely, this people merit that some slight account be drawn from the mostly unknown books and documents where they have for years reposed, known only to the antiquarians and often veiled from English readers by the German language, in which many of the best and most valuable are written, and given to the English-speaking world of America.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Koebel Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1406708410
• ISBN 13: 9781406708417
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
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