The American Revolution (Snowden book)

The American Revolution: Written in Scriptural, or, Ancient Historical Style is a 1796 account of the American Revolution written by Richard Snowden (1753–1825).[1][2][3][4]

Overview

Despite adopting the "scriptural" style, the work is relatively devoid of religious material.[5] The work was aimed at schoolchildren, with Snowden writing that the style was chosen as the style "most suitable to the capacities of young people".[5] The work was published with verse numbers and uses English of the Jacobean Era, similar to that found in the King James Version of the Bible published in 1611.

In the work, modern place names are replaced with archaic-sounding names, e.g. France is called Gaul.[5]

References
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  1. "The American revolution: : written in scriptural, or, ancient historical style. : Snowden, Richard, 1753-1825 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Retrieved 2014-01-02.
  2. Stevens, Henry (1862). Bibliotheca Americana Or A Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America. Whittingham and Wilkins. p. 693. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  3. Folsom, George; Dean, John Ward; Shea, John Gilmary; Henry Reed Stiles; Henry Barton Dawson (1858). The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America. Henry B. Dawson. p. 212. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  4. Norton, Anthony Banning (1862). A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive: Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes and Incidents of Men Connected with the County from Its First Settlement : Together with Complete Lists of the Senators, Representatives, Sheriffs [and Other Officers of the County...] : and Also a Sketch of Kenyon College, and Other Institutions of Learning and Religion Within the County. Mount Vernon, Ohio: Knox County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. p. 257. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  5. Shalev, Eran (13 October 2009). Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic. University of Virginia Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-8139-2839-5. Retrieved 20 March 2014.


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