A Young Patriot : The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
by Jim Murphy
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- ISBN 10
- 0395900190
- ISBN 13
- 9780395900192
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In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself "as warm a patriot as the best of them." He enlisted that July and stayed in the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783. Martin fought under Washington, Lafayette, and Steuben. He took part in major battles in New York, Monmouth, and Yorktown. He wintered at Valley Forge and then at Morristown, considered even more severe. He wrote of his war years in a memoir that brings the American Revolution alive with telling details, drama, and a country boy's humor. Jim Murphy lets Joseph Plumb Martin speak for himself throughout the text, weaving in historical backfround details wherever necessary, giving voice to a teenager who was an eyewitness to the fight that set America free from the British Empire.
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- Title
- A Young Patriot : The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
- Author
- Jim Murphy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0395900190
- ISBN 13
- 9780395900192
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1998
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