Wilkinson, James 1757-1825

General orders : as the scientific pursuit of the Corps of Engineers do not allow time by United States( Book )

3 editions published in 1805 in English and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

History of the battle of Breed's Hill by Charles Coffin( Book )

10 editions published between 1831 and 1979 in English and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This compilation by Charles Coffin is comprised of accounts from American officers who either participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill or were well-educated on the conflict. These accounts were originally published in the first quarter of the 19th century

An estimate of the average price in December 1778, of the different articles of cloathing allowed the soldiery by the act of Congress September 6th, 1777. by United States( Book )

9 editions published in 1779 in English and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An estimate of the average prices of the different articles of cloathing allowed the soldiery, by the act of Congress, September 6, 1777 by United States( Book )

9 editions published in 1779 in English and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The trial of Col. Aaron Burr, on an indictment for treason, before the Circuit Court of the United States, held in Richmond, (Virginia), May term, 1807 : including the arguments and decisions on all the motions made during the examination and trial, and on the motion for an attachment against Gen. Wilkinson by Aaron Burr( Book )

in English and held by 60 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Burr's conspiracy exposed ; and General Wilkinson vindicated against the slanders of his enemies on that important occasion by James Wilkinson( Book )

7 editions published in 1811 in English and held by 54 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memoirs of General Wilkinson by James Wilkinson( Book )

3 editions published between 1810 and 1811 in English and held by 35 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tarnished warrior : Major-General James Wilkinson by James Ripley Jacobs( Book )

2 editions published in 1938 in Undetermined and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From the early days of the Revolution, James Wilkinson was an important figure in American history. As a general in the Army of the United States, he was a friend of Presidents, a companion of conspirators, a master of intrigue, and a confederate of alien and domestic plotters. Few men had more intimate knowledge of the inhabited stretches of the American continent. He knew the slating streets of Montreal and was familiar with the tangled wilderness that covered the Champlain valley. In the old Northwest he traveled on the waters of the Great Lakes, wrangled with the British in Detroit, and ate boiled puppy with the savages along the Ohio. In Kentucky, he peddled merchandise and delivered pioneer women of their children. Again and again he voyaged up and down the Mississippi River and the Atlantic seacoast with soldiers, traders, and hardy adventures; in New Orleans and Philadelphia tavern underlings came to know his thick-set, uniformed figure, always busy, always alert, and often sinister. He visited Havana on mysterious missions, ran the gauntlet of grasping customhouse officials at Vera Cruz, and dined with Mexican patriots in the "Halls of Montezumas." Whether enjoying the proceeds of government pay-checks honestly earned or silver pesos wheedled from gullible Spanish officials, he set the pattern for lavish spending and engaging hospitality. Affable and gregarious, he craved the applause of his fellow-men; for their women he had an ample store of hard-handed compliments. He altered his political creed to suit the exigencies of the moment, but was always the partisan, writing profusely and talking without end. As a brilliant Revolutionary staff officer, a peace-time frontier commander, and an aging general in the War of 1812, he was an opportunist. He sought immediate reward, preferably in hard cash. Initiative he had, extreme audacity, and a relentless purpose. His zeal for new enterprises never flagged until a Mexican churchyard received his bones in 1825. Widely scattered archives have furnished the data for this interesting book on a remarkable soldier. It has a freshness that will make strong appeal to lovers of biography. In it they will find, at last, a key to the jigsaw puzzle of Wilkinson's paradoxical career -- Book jacket

Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America: comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain. Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States by Zebulon Montgomery Pike( Book )

4 editions published in 1811 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A reissue of the London, 1811 edition (in new type) of the first government exploration of the Southwest and one of the most important of all American travel narratives. Includes a new introduction by William M. Maguire. The American edition, Baltimore, 1810, was issued under title: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi, and through the western parts of Louisiana

Proofs of the corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson, and of his connexion with Aaron Burr : with a full refutation of his slanderous allegations in relation to the character of the principal witness against him by Daniel Clark( Book )

1 edition published in 1809 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide