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Книжная премия Музея «Таверна Фрэнсиса» (Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award) была учреждена в 1972 году и с тех пор ежегодно вручается лучшему автору недавно опубликованной работы об американской войне за независимость, сочетающей в себе оригинальный научный подход, проницательность и хороший стиль изложения.

С помощью этой премии музей «Таверна Фрэнсиса» реализует свою основную миссию: информирование общественности об американской войне за независимость и признании научного исторического сообщества, посвятившего себя изучению и просвещению общественности, относительно американской борьбы за свободу.

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«Таверна Фрэнсиса» - это музей и ресторан, хранящие память о ключевых событиях американской истории. В небольшом скромном домике, окружённом сейчас небоскрёбами, произошли события, определившие лицо страны.

Здание это задолго до американской революции (в 1719 году) построил французский гугенот Этьен де Лэнси. В 1762 году дом купил ресторатор Сэмюэл Фрэнсис и устроил тут таверну.
Заведение быстро обрело популярность, в нём встречались «сыны свободы», сторонники независимости американских колоний. В те времена таверны часто становились центрами притяжения для различных сообществ: во время застолья были основаны, например, Нью-Йоркская торговая палата и Библиотечное общество.

В 1783 году именно здесь велись переговоры с англичанами о порядке эвакуации их войск. Нью-Йорк стал последним городом, который покинули оккупанты, и 4 декабря 1783 года победоносный главнокомандующий Континентальной армии Джордж Вашингтон пригласил своих офицеров в таверну «Фрэнсис» – прощаться.

Сейчас тут расположены таверна, ресторан и музей. В коллекции музея – знамёна эпохи войны за независимость, портреты Вашингтона, воссозданный зал, в котором губернатор Джордж Клинтон давал обед в честь Джорджа Вашингтона. В таверне и ресторане – пиво не хуже того, что пили здесь офицеры Континентальной армии, со слезами на глазах провожая своего командира.



С 1983 по 1986 год премия не вручалась.

Жанры: История, Историческая проза Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1972 г. Последнее вручение: 2022 г. Официальный сайт: https://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/fraunces-tavern-museum-book-award

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Книжная премия Музея «Таверна Фрэнсиса»
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
Поощрительная премия
Honorable Mention
Премия за прижизненные достижения
Lifetime Achievement Award
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Special Recognition
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The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution
Kevin J. Weddle 0.0
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany. When British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga with unexpected ease in July of 1777, it looked as if it was a matter of time before they would break the rebellion in the North. Less than three and a half months later, however, a combination of the Continental Army and Militia forces, commanded by Major General Horatio Gates and inspired by the heroics of Benedict Arnold, forced Burgoyne to surrender his entire army. The American victory stunned the world and changed the course of the war.

Kevin J. Weddle offers the most authoritative history of the Battle of Saratoga to date, explaining with verve and clarity why events unfolded the way they did. In the end, British plans were undone by a combination of distance, geography, logistics, and an underestimation of American leadership and fighting ability. Taking Ticonderoga had misled Burgoyne and his army into thinking victory was assured. Saratoga, which began as a British foraging expedition, turned into a rout. The outcome forced the British to rethink their strategy, inflamed public opinion in England against the war, boosted Patriot morale, and, perhaps most critical of all, led directly to the Franco-American alliance. Weddle unravels the web of contingencies and the play of personalities that ultimately led to what one American general called "the Compleat Victory."
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The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
Patrick K. ODonnell 0.0
On the stormy night of August 29th, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation. After losing the Battle of Brooklyn, the British had Washington's army trapped against the East River. The fate of the Revolution rested heavily on the shoulders of the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. White, Black, and Native American, these soldiers served side-by-side in the country's first uniquely diverse unit--pulling off an "American Dunkirk" and saving the army. In the annals of the American Revolution, no group played a more consequential role than the men of Marblehead; at the right time in the right place, they repeatedly altered the course of events. Their story has never been fully told before now, and it shines new light on our understanding of the Revolution. As bestselling historian Patrick K. O'Donnell dramatically recounts, the Marblehead Regiment, led by John Glover, was truly indispensable. Beginning nearly a decade before the war started, The Indispensables also reveals how Marbleheaders such as Elbridge Gerry and Josiah Lee spearheaded the break with Britain and helped shape the nascent United States by playing a crucial role governing, building alliances, seizing British ships and forging critical supply lines that established the origins of the U.S. Navy.

Marbleheaders battled at Lexington and on Bunker Hill and formed the elite Guard that protected George Washington, a precursor to today's Secret Service. Then, at the most crucial time in the war, the regiment conveyed 2,400 of Washington's men across the ice-filled Delaware River on Christmas night of 1776, delivering the momentum-shifting surprise attack on Trenton that changed the course of history.

This uniquely diverse unit set an inclusive standard the US Army would not reach for over 170 years. Compelling and original, The Indispensables is a vital addition to the literature of the American Revolution.
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War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion
John Knight 0.0
The American Loyalist Regiment Led by the Most Charismatic British Commander of the War
The British Legion was one of the most remarkable regiments, not only of the American Revolution, but of any war. A corps made up of American Loyalists, it saw its first action in New York and then engaged in almost every battle in the Southern colonies. Led by a twenty-four-year-old libertine who purchased his commission to escape enormous gambling debts, the Legion gained notoriety for its ruthless tactics. Excelling in “special operations,” they frequently overwhelmed the Continental forces they fought, becoming the most feared British regiment of the war.
Banastre Tarleton and the Americans he led have always been characterized as brutal, immoral villains—most recently in the movie, The Patriot. But this study subverts our pre-conceived notions of patriotism. The men who filled the Legions ranks were not weak-willed collaborators or treacherous renegades, but free men as motivated by conscience as the Patriots they battled. Few were wealthy. None had a vested stake in the British Government. Each believed that in defending the Crown; they were upholding the rule of law and preserving individual liberty.
These men followed Banastre Tarleton clear across America for years, sacrificing not only their families and homes but, in many instances, their lives. Self-interest could not have persuaded them to do this. Patriotism and fidelity did. Relying on first-hand accounts—letters, diaries, and journals—The British Legion is the enthralling story of those forgotten Americans and the young Englishman who led them.
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Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Вуди Холтон 0.0
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.

Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes.

Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americans—enslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters—and on overlooked factors such as weather, North America’s unique geography, chance, misperception, attempts to manipulate public opinion, and (most of all) disease. Thousands of enslaved Americans exploited the chaos of war to obtain their own freedom, while others were given away as enlistment bounties to whites. Women provided material support for the troops, sewing clothes for soldiers and in some cases taking part in the fighting. Both sides courted native people and mimicked their tactics.

Liberty Is Sweet is a “must-read book for understanding the founding of our nation” (Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin), from its origins on the frontiers and in the Atlantic ports to the creation of the Constitution. Offering surprises at every turn—for example, Holton makes a convincing case that Britain never had a chance of winning the war—this majestic history revivifies a story we thought we already knew.
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