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  • With George Washington in the Wilderness
    Paul R. Misencik / Sally E. Misencik
    Christopher Gist is a great American hero who has often gone unnoticed. Recognized for giving colonists the first detailed description of the Ohio Country, Gist was a close friend of George Washington, whom he met through their affiliation with the Ohio Company. In 1753, the two went on an arduous trek through the western Pennsylvania wilderness in the dead of winter to deli...
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    57,28 €

  • American Indians of the Ohio Country in the 18th Century
    Paul R Misencik / Paul R. Misencik / Sally E Misencik / Sally E. Misencik
    In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry. These conflicts, known as the Beaver Wars, were among the bloodiest in North American history, and the resulting defeat of the Erie nation led to present-day Ohio’s becoming devoid of significant, permanent Indian inhabitants. Only in the first quarter of the 18...
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    66,16 €

  • Sally Townsend, George Washington’s Teenage Spy
    Paul R. Misencik
    Sally Townsend of Oyster Bay was a petite, vivacious, intelligent and remarkably beautiful young lady with beguiling eyes. A 1779 Valentine poem from an admiring British officer reads: 'Thou know’st what powerful magick lies Within the round of Sarah’s eyes.' She was the sister of Robert Townsend, a principal member of the 'Culper Ring,' General Washington’s most effective...
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    42,82 €

  • George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison
    Paul R. Misencik
    George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief Tanacharison, which led to, as Horace Walpole quipped, Washington firing 'a vol...
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    50,29 €

  • The Original American Spies
    Paul R. Misencik
    This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not trained as covert agents, which meant they had to develop their skills and techniques on their own, often while in the midst of the enemy where discovery meant almost certain death for them, and suffering and hardship for their family and...
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    51,22 €