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(DE-602)gbv_804618925
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Online-Ressource
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ISBN:
0708325599
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9780708325599
Series Statement:
Wales and the French Revolution
Content:
In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution and its consequences. In 1808, his family left Britain for America where his son, Richard Price Morgan, travelled extensively, made a descent of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by raft and helped build some of the early American railroads. The adventures of both men are related here via letters George sent home to his family from France and through the autobiography written by his son in
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219 - 225
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George Cadogan Morgan, Travels in revolutionary FranceIntroduction: 'A world of new ideas' -- Letters from France, summer 1789 -- George Cadogan Morgan, Address to the Jacobine societies (1792) -- Introduction -- An address to the Jacobine and other patriotic societies of the French -- Richard Price Morgan, A journey across America -- Introduction -- Autobiography of Richard Price Morgan, senior.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0708325580
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780708325582
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Travels in revolutionary France & A journey across America Cardiff : Univ. of Wales Press, 2012 ISBN 9780708325582
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0708325580
Language:
English
Keywords:
Morgan, George Cadogan 1754-1798
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Morgan, Richard Price 1790-1882
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Frankreich
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USA
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Reisebericht
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Geschichte 1789-1816
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