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This Glorious Cause: The Adventures of Two Company Officers in Washington's Army
By (Author) Herbert Treadwell Wade
By (author) Robert A. Lively
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Military institutions
War and defence operations
History of the Americas
973.38
Hardback
268
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
"As I am ingaged in this glories Cause I am will to go whare I am Called"-so Joseph Hodgkins, a shoemaker of Ipswich, Massachusetts, declared to his wife the purpose that sustained him through four crucial years of the American Revolution. Hodgkins and his fellow townsman Nathaniel Wade, a carpenter, turned out for the Lexington alarm, fought at Bu