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03364aam a2200313 4500 001 720E086C6AD011ECA1A910C849ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220101010003 008 150820s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2015032558 020 $a 1510755675 020 $a 9781510755673 035 $a (OCoLC)919068366 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Tucker, Phillip Thomas, $d 1953- 245 1 $a How the Irish Won the American Revolution : $b the forgotten heroes of America's War of Independence / $c by Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD. 264 1 $a New York : $b Skyhorse Publishing, $c 2017. 300 $a 400 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a OCT21. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 $a Introduction: the forgotten Irish contribution to decisive victory -- "You have lost America by the Irish:" America's forgotten revolutionaries -- Enduring Irish legacies, myths, and popular modern memory -- Complexities of ethnicity and forgotten history -- Half of Washington's Continental Army was Celtic-Gaelic? -- A new generation of the most radical revolutionaries in America -- More of Washington's invaluable Irish commanders -- Washington's close-knit Irish "family" and other hard-hitting Irish leaders -- Conclusion: Irish odyssey. 520 $a The tides of the American Revolution were turned by Irish Americans fighting in the most important battles with the Continental Army... When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of its fledgling country were from Ireland. By 1790, close to 500,000 Irish citizens had immigrated to America. They were very active in the American Revolution, both on the battlefields and off, and yet their stories are not well known. The important contributions of the Irish on military, political, and economic levels have been long overlooked and ignored by generations of historians. However, new evidence has revealed the Washington's Continental Army consisted of a far larger percentage of Irish soldiers than previously thought - between 40 and 50 percent - who fought during some of the most important battles of the American Revolution. Romanticized versions of this historical period tend to focus on the upper-class figures who had the biggest roles in America's struggle for liberty. But these adaptations neglect the impact of European and Irish ideals and citizens on the formation of the revolution. Irish contributors such as John Barry, the colonies' foremost naval officer; Henry Knox, an artillery officer and future Secretary of War; Richard Montgomery, America's first war hero and martyr; and Charles Thomson, a radical organizer and Secretary to the Continental Congress were all instrumental in carrying out the vision of a free country. Without their timely and disproportionate assistance, America almost certainly would have lost the desperate fight for its existence. 541 $d 20211001. 650 $a Irish American soldiers $x History $y 18th century. 650 $a Irish Americans $x History $y 18th century. 651 $a United States $x Participation, Irish American. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Participation, Irish American. 941 $a 1 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20220101010015.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=720E086C6AD011ECA1A910C849ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search