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George Quintal Jr.

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Description:Excerpt from Patriots of Color: 'A Peculiar Beauty and Merit', African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road and Bunker HillEvery once in a while a piece of scholarship comes along that changes the way you look at a historical event. The prevailing wisdom about the Battle of Bunker Hill is that only a handful of African American soldiers were there. After almost three years of research George Quintal reports that there very likely were 103 patriots of color at Bunker Hill (and may have been as many as If there were as many as 3000 American soldiers at that Battle, this would mean that men of color might have been five percent of the total, which makes the percentage almost as high as at the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, when an estimated 800 men of color were seven per cent of a likely army of soldiers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Patriots of Color: 'A Peculiar Beauty and Merit', African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road and Bunker Hill (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Patriots of Color: 'A Peculiar Beauty and Merit', African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road and Bunker Hill (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Patriots of Color: 'A Peculiar Beauty and Merit', African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road and Bunker HillEvery once in a while a piece of scholarship comes along that changes the way you look at a historical event. The prevailing wisdom about the Battle of Bunker Hill is that only a handful of African American soldiers were there. After almost three years of research George Quintal reports that there very likely were 103 patriots of color at Bunker Hill (and may have been as many as If there were as many as 3000 American soldiers at that Battle, this would mean that men of color might have been five percent of the total, which makes the percentage almost as high as at the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, when an estimated 800 men of color were seven per cent of a likely army of soldiers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Patriots of Color: 'A Peculiar Beauty and Merit', African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road and Bunker Hill (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Patriots of Color: 'A Peculiar Beauty and Merit', African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road and Bunker Hill (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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