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The quiet patriot : Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs : with Meig's 1775 journal of the Quebec expedition

Title
The quiet patriot : Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs : with Meig's 1775 journal of the Quebec expedition / Richard A. Mason.
Author
Mason, Richard A.
Publication
Westminster, Maryland : Heritage Books, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Meigs, Return Jonathan, 1740-1823.
Description
xii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Subject
  • Meigs, Return Jonathan, 1740-1823
  • 1775-1776
  • Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776
  • Indian agents > United States > Biography
  • Surveyors > Ohio > Biography
  • Indian agents
  • Surveyors
  • Connecticut > Biography
  • Connecticut
  • Ohio
  • United States
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-343) and index.
Contents
Answering the alarm -- Encampment around Boston -- Struggle through the Wilderness -- Assault in the snow -- Confinement and parole -- Sag Harbor raid -- Recognition and promotion -- Perseverance and privation -- "The fort's our own" -- Mutiny, betrayal and trouble at home -- Victory and peace -- "For the Ohio country" -- Marietta -- The Indian Wars -- Triumphs and treaties -- Indian agent -- White path -- "Let us hold each other by the hand."
ISBN
  • 9780788451850
  • 0788451855
  • 9780788484049
  • 0788484044
LCCN
2011534500
OCLC
  • ocn775897466
  • SCSB-14047524
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library