The Travels of Elkanah Watson: An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States

by Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs

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Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone--soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American revolutionaries. At 19, he smuggled funds for the Revolution from Rhode Island to South Carolina in the midst of the war, while starting diaries he would...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1476662452

ISBN13:9781476662459

Release Date:August 2015

Publisher:McFarland & Company

Length:220 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.9" x 10.3"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Business Business & Investing History

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