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Glory, passion, and principle : the story of eight remarkable women at the core of the American Revolution / Melissa Lukeman Bohrer.
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| Authors: |
Bohrer, Melissa Lukeman
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| Call number: |
973.3082 BOH |
| Publisher: |
New York : Atria Books, c2003. |
| Publication date: |
c2003. |
| Subject: |
Women -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Women -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
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| Title: |
Glory, passion, and principle : the story of eight remarkable women at the core of the American Revolution / Melissa Lukeman Bohrer. |
| Physical description: |
xv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: |
Sybil Ludington -- Phillis Wheatley -- Abigail Adams -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Lydia Darragh -- Molly Pitcher -- Deborah Sampson -- Nancy Ward. |
| Summary note: |
Profiles eight American women who made significant contributions to the American Revolution, from sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, who rode twice as far as Paul Revere to alert patriots; to Deborah Samson, who posed as a man to fight as a Continental Army soldier; to Phyllis Wheatley, a slave and first-published African-American author. |
| Biography note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0743453301 : |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|878053
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| Bib No.: |
878053 |
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