That Ever Loyal Island: Staten Island and the American Revolution

by Phillip Papas

Book Overview

Of crucial strategic importance to both the British and the Continental Army, Staten Island was, for a good part of the American Revolution, a bastion of Loyalist support. With its military and political significance, Staten Island provides rich terrain for Phillip Papas's illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War.
Papas traces Staten Island's political sympathies not to strong ties with Britain, but instead to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814767664
• ISBN13: 9780814767665
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"