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

Book Overview

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