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A Complete Life of General George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers; Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant-Colonel, Seventh U.S. Cavalry - Tapa blanda

Frederick Whittaker

 
9781646791422: A Complete Life of General George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers; Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant-Colonel, Seventh U.S. Cavalry
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ISBN 10: 1646791428 ISBN 13: 9781646791422
Editorial: Cosimo, 2020

Sinopsis

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“To the American people, whose liberties he so gallantly defended and especially to the American cavalry, past and present, whose greatest price and brightest ornament he was, I dedicate this memoir.” —Frederick Whittaker, Dedication in A Complete Life of General George A. CusterA Complete Life of General George A. Custer—Major-General of Volunteers; Brevet Major-General, US Army; and Lieutenant-Colonel, Seventh US Cavalry, is the first biography of General George A. Custer published in 1876, six months after Custer’s defeat at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.It was with assistance of Libbie Custer, General Custer’s wife, that author Frederick Whittaker wrote this extensive biography, in which he presents Custer as a brilliant and heroic military leader. This image set the tone for future biographers and continued for decades in the American public mind.

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FREDERICK WHITTAKER (1838-1889), born in London, emigrated to the United States in 1850. During the Civil War he enlisted as a private and rose to second lieutenant. After the war, he became a professional writer and a popular author of "dime novels." In 1876, after Custer's death, Whittaker started writing an extensive and definitive biography, A Complete Life of General George A. Custer.

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Editorial
Cosimo
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1646791428
ISBN 13 
9781646791422
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
688
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