Biographical Sketches of the Signers: The Declaration Historically Considered; And a Sketch of the Leading Events Connected with the Adoption of the ... of the Federal Constitution (Applewood Books) - Softcover

Benson John Lossing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1429019557 ISBN 13: 9781429019552

Verlag: Arcadia Publishing, 2009

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Popular American historian Benson J. Lossing was a prolific writer whose ""Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence"" reads like a Who's Who of the country's earliest patriots. It reveals concise details about the more than fifty elected delegates, representing all thirteen colonies, who signed one of the most famous documents in American history. From Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock to less-remembered but equally important personages like Richard Henry Lee and Robert Morris, Lossing offers interesting facts and his own portrait engravings of the individuals who were present at the formation of the United States of America.

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Benson John Lossing (1813-1891) was a prolific and popular American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American Civil War and features in Harper's Magazine. He was a Charter Trustee of Vassar College.

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Popular American historian Benson J. Lossing was a prolific writer whose Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence reads like a Who's Who of the country's earliest patriots. It reveals concise details about the more than fifty elected delegates, representing all thirteen colonies, who signed one of the most famous documents in American history. From Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock to less-remembered but equally important personages like Richard Henry Lee and Robert Morris, Lossing offers interesting facts and his own portrait engravings of the individuals who were present at the formation of the United States of America.

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• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1429019557
• ISBN 13: 9781429019552
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
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