Название: Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution
Автор: Caroline Cox
Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 1469627558
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 230
Размер: 1,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine.