Bibliograph

Willing's Raid of 1778 down the Mississippi, John Walton Caughey ; with an Essay on the roster of The Rattletrap / by Talmadge L. Buller ; introduction by Winston De Ville

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Willing's Raid of 1778 down the Mississippi, John Walton Caughey ; with an Essay on the roster of The Rattletrap / by Talmadge L. Buller ; introduction by Winston De Ville

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Willing's Raid of 1778 down the Mississippi

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

77008191972995

Responsibility statement

John Walton Caughey ; with an Essay on the roster of The Rattletrap / by Talmadge L. Buller ; introduction by Winston De Ville

Summary

"In 1778, Captain James Willing, aboard his Fort Pitt vessel, The Rattletrap, brought the American Revolution to the English settlements in the Province of Louisiana. A compelling and resolute leader, he did lack restraint, and Dr. Caughey concludes, humanity. Generations have called him "Robber Willing," and a "damned scoundrel" leading a "Body of Banditti." John Walton Caughey, although not a Louisianian, was one of Louisiana's great historians. Long before "revisionist" historians began to question various aspects of American historiograpy, Dr. Caughey was examining questions of history without prejudice or assumption. That he was a student of Herbert Eugene Bolton goes far to explain his special interest in the colonial Latin west and southwest. His classic Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana, 1776-1783 (1934) still stands as the major work on the subject. Obviously, the present, more detailed work was a study for the book. The Caughey text is reprinted from a 1930s issue of The Louisiana Historical Quarterly."--Publisher website (December 2008)

Table Of Contents

Willing's Raid -- The men of The Rattletrap

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