Heath's Memoirs of the American War

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Heath, William

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Heath's Memoirs of the American War: Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1798

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Heath's Memoirs of the American War: Reprinted from the original edition of 1798 (American Biography Series)

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First published in 1798, this Revolutionary War memoir is one of the few ever written by a senior Continental Army commander. It provides a unique glimpse into the administrative operations and inner workings of the army during the American Revolution. Major General William Heath offers rare insights on the war's major military personalities on both the American and British sides. Of particular interest are his wartime interactions with British generals John Burgoyne and William Phillips, as well as Continental Army generals such as George Washington and Charles Lee. Heath's memoir also gives readers a detailed look at the constant struggles faced by the army, including food, supply, personnel and funding shortages, and presents an almost daily chronicle of the tribulations and successes experienced by patriot forces during the war.

The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Major General William Heath

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

McFarland

Based on extensive research, Blacksnake's Path combines a compelling narrative with authentic history. This splendid novel about an unsung hero of American history is the product of twelve years of research and writing, yet it carries its prodigious learning lightly in order to tell vividly the story of William Wells's remarkable life. Blacksnake's Path recreates an entire period (1779-1812), showing how the Indians lived, fought for their homeland, and dealt with defeat. Because Wells was always a man in the middle, moving between two cultures, the novel also captures the lives of the men and women who settled the territory north of the Ohio River. In 1784, when he was thirteen, Wells was captured from his home outside pioneer Louisville and taken to Snake-fish Town in present-day Indiana. There he was adopted by the village chief, The Porcupine, and was raised as a Miami under the name of Blacksnake. He experienced a vision quest, learned to hunt, went on the warpath, married, and fathered a son. On November 4th, 1791 he fought by the side of the great Miami war chief Little Turtle at St. Clair's Defeat, the greatest victory the Indians ever won against the U. S. Army. His second wife was the chief's daughter Sweet Breeze. Two years later he switched sides and became head scout for General Mad Anthony Wayne at the decisive battle of Fallen Timbers, August 20th, 1794. The following summer he was the translator between Little Turtle and Wayne at the Treaty of Greenville, which ceded most of Ohio to the settlers. For much of the rest of his life, Wells served as Indian Agent for the Miami, taking Little Turtle and other chiefs to visit Presidents Washington, Adams, and Jefferson in Philadelphia and Washington. In the early nineteenth century, he was often at the center of the conflict between Governor William Henry Harrison's land greed and Tecumseh's militant resistance. Wells died a martyr at the Fort Dearborn Massacre in 1812.

Blacksnake's Path: The True Adventures of William Wells

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Heritage Books

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest

Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. William Heath’s thoroughly researched book is the first biography of this man-in-the-middle. A servant of empire with deep sympathies for the people his country sought to dispossess, Wells married Chief Little Turtle’s daughter and distinguished himself as a Miami warrior, as an American spy, and as an Indian agent whose multilingual skills made him a valuable interpreter. Heath examines pioneer life in the Ohio Valley from both white and Indian perspectives, yielding rich insights into Wells’s career as well as broader events on the post-revolutionary American frontier, where Anglo-Americans pushing westward competed with the Indian nations of the Old Northwest for control of territory. Wells’s unusual career, Heath emphasizes, earned him a great deal of ill will. Because he warned the U.S. government against Tecumseh’s confederacy and the Tenskwatawa’s “religiously mad” followers, he was hated by those who supported the Shawnee leaders. Because he came to question treaties he had helped bring about, and cautioned the Indians about their harmful effects, he was distrusted by Americans. Wells is a complicated hero, and his conflicted position reflects the decline of coexistence and cooperation between two cultures.

Leaders & Notable People

University of Oklahoma Press

In Late August of 1972, when the prize stallion Devil Dancer in shot, Wendell Clay, a war veteran recently turned detective, volunteers to solve the case. His investigation becomes a three day ordeal that teaches him more than he ever wanted to know about the dark places of the heart. Distinguished by its evocation of the Kentucky bluegrass region, as well as its range of authentic voices -- from pickpockets, black hipsters, and Mafia thugs, to the elite of the horse farm world - the novel deftly dramatizes a grim yet compassionate view of existence. As the action moves from the lush opulence of Sycamore Springs Farm to the sleazy underside of Lexington and the mobbed-up dives of Newport, Kentucky, Wendell interrogates a set of memorable characters whose tales lure him into a labyrinth where mazes devised by others merge with his own twisted desires. The novel combines poetic texture and mythic resonance with a mastery of character, voice, scene, and plot. While contemporary in its sensibility, Devil Dancer draws upon some of the oldest literary traditions of all: people swapping stories to sustain each other and a mortal man's confrontation with the mystery of life.

Devil Dancer

Somondoco Press

Battle of Breed's Hill.

Lee, Henry

Coffin, Charles

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