George Athan Billias

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According to Wikipedia, George Athan Billias was an American historian. Early life Billias was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and graduated from Lynn English High School in 1937. He received his B.A. from Bates College in 1948 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1958. He joined the United States Army in 1941 and became a medical administrative officer in 1942. During World War II, he received the Bronze Star for gallantry in evacuating wounded from the Remagen bridgehead during the Battle for the Ludendorf Bridge across the Rhine River in March 1945. He served as a civilian National Defense Historian with the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1954 and was at the Eastern Air Defense Force in Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, New York.

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Empire and interest : the American colonies and the politics of mercantilism (1970) (27)
Interpretations of American History: Patterns and Perspectives (1982) (20)
Elbridge Gerry: Founding Father and Republican Statesman (1976) (15)
American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989: A Global Perspective (2009) (15)
American Constitutionalism Abroad: Selected Essays in Comparative Constitutional History (1990) (11)
The Massachusetts land bankers of 1740 (1959) (11)
George Washington's generals and opponents : their exploits and leadership (1994) (11)
George Washington's opponents : British generals and admirals in the American Revolution (1970) (10)
Law and authority in colonial America (1970) (10)
The American Revolution; how revolutionary was it? (1970) (9)
The first Federal court : the Federal appellate prize court of the American Revolution, 1775-1787 (1978) (7)
The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney (2004) (6)
George Washington's Generals. (1980) (6)
The claim of the American loyalists reviewed and maintained upon incontrovertible principles of law and justice (2010) (5)
Hadden's Journal and Orderly Books: A Journal Kept in Canada and Upon Burgoyne's Campaign in 1776 and 1777 (1972) (5)
The manuscripts of the Earl of Dartmouth (5)
Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607–1763: Leach, Douglas Edward: (The Macmillan Wars of the United States Series): New York: The Macmillan Co., 566 pp., Publication Date: May 3, 1973 (1973) (4)
Reconsiderations on the Revolutionary War (1978) (4)
General John Glover and His Marblehead Mariners. (1960) (4)
The French in America during the war of independence of the United States, 1777-1783 (4)
Perspectives on early American history : essays in honor of Richard B. Morris (1974) (4)
Our American Heritage (1983) (4)
The Delaware loyalists (1972) (3)
Political and military episodes in the latter half of the nineteenth [i.e. eighteenth] century : Derived from the life and correspondence of the Right Hon. John Burgoyne, general, statesman, dramatist (1972) (3)
Law and authority in colonial America : selected essays (1966) (3)
Vindication of the Captors of Major Andre (1972) (3)
The life of Colonel Paul Revere (3)
The Examination of Joseph Galloway, Esq. by a Committee of the House of Commons (2010) (2)
Letters to a Nobleman, on the Conduct of the War in the Middle Colonies (2010) (2)
Pox and politics in Marblehead, 1773-1774. (1956) (2)
History of George Rogers Clark's Conquest of the Illinois and the Wabash Towns, 1778 and 1779 (2007) (2)
Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790. Vol. III: April 27, 1780-March 29, 1781@@@Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790. Vol. IV: April 1, 1781-December 23, 1781 (1981) (2)
Rebels Under Sail. (1977) (1)
Interpretations of American History Patterns and Perspectives [Edited by] Gerald N. Grob and George A. Billias (1967) (1)
Advance and retreat to Saratoga in the American revolution : the American offensive and the Burgoyne campaign (1972) (1)
The Loyalists of New Jersey: Their Memorials, Petitions, Claims, etc. From English Records (2019) (1)
The centennial of the settlement of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists, 1784-1884 : The celebrations at Adolphustown, Toronto, and Niagara, with an appendix containing a copy of the U.E. list, preserved in the Crown Lands Department at Toronto (1972) (1)
The Execution of Isaac Hayne. By David K. Bowden. (Lexington, S.C.: Sandlapper Store, 1977. 102 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $9.95.) (1978) (1)
Winslow papers, A.D. 1776-1826 (2015) (1)
Report on American manuscripts in the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1972) (1)
A history of the American Revolution;: Comprehending all the principal events both in the field and in the cabinet (1972) (1)
A reply to the observations of Lieut. Gen. Sir William Howe, on a pamphlet, entitled Letters to a nobleman (1972) (1)
Of the Making of Festschriften...@@@Perspectives on Early American History: Essays in Honor of Richard B. Morris. (1974) (0)
The Maine Two-Footers (1998) (0)
Agents and Merchants: British Colonial Policy and the Origins of the American Revolution, 1763–1775 . By Jack M. Sosin. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1965. Pp. xvi + 267. $5.50. (1966) (0)
Naval researches : or A candid inquiry into the conduct of Admirals Byron, Graves, Hood, and Rodney, in the actions off Grenada, Chesapeak, St. Christophers, and of the ninth and twelfth of April, 1782 (1972) (0)
Report on the manuscripts of Mrs. Stopford-Sackville, of Drayton House, Northhamptonshire (1972) (0)
General John Glover's letterbook, 1776-1777 (1976) (0)
Tories of New Hampshire in the War of the Revolution (2015) (0)
William Alexander, Lord Stirling (1988) (0)
From Jacksonian democracy to the gilded age (1972) (0)
American Constitutionalism Defined (2009) (0)
From Progressivism to the Cold War (1972) (0)
Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Volume II, American Theatre: Sept. 3, 1775-Oct. 31, 1775; European Theatre: Aug. 11, 1775-Oct. 31, 1775; American Theatre: Nov. 1, 1775-Dec. 7, 1775 (1967) (0)
Connecticut Hero: Israel Putnam. Vol. XXII, The Connecticut Bicentennial SeriesConnecticut’s Nationalist Revolutionary: Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Vol. XXV, The Connecticut Bicentennial Series (1981) (0)
Interpretations of American History Patterns and Perspectives /Gerald N. Grob, George Athan Billias. --. -- (1972) (0)
The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock. By William M. Fowler, Jr. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. xiii + 366 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) (1980) (0)
To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815 (1970) (0)
Connecticut’s Dark Star of the Revolution: General Benedict Arnold. Vol. XXVI, The Connecticut Bicentennial Series (1981) (0)
Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 16071763 (1973) (0)
John Hancock, the Picturesque Patriot (2007) (0)
Massachusettensis; Letters to the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, 12 December, 1774-3 April, 1775 (1979) (0)
Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Volume 5, American Theatre: May 9, 1776-July 31, 1776 (1972) (0)
Robert Alexander: Maryland Loyalist (2007) (0)
American History: Restrospect and Prospect (1972) (0)
Elbridge Gerry, the Founding Fathers, and the Republic of Virtue@@@Elbridge Gerry: Founding Father and Republican Statesman. (1977) (0)
The Federalists: Realists or Ideologues? (1970) (0)
Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790. Vol. I: December 7, 1776-March 30, 1778 (1978) (0)
The Naval Biography of Great Britain: Consisting of Historical Memoirs of Those Officers of the British Navy who Distinguished Themselves During the Reign of His Majesty George III (2011) (0)
Of Constitutions and Constitutionalisms (2009) (0)
The North Carolina Continentals. By Hugh F. Rankin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971. viii + 428 pp. Notes, works cited, and index. $12.50.) (1972) (0)
George Washington's Navy@@@General John Glover and His Marblehead Mariners (1961) (0)
From Puritanism to the first party system (1972) (0)
Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Volume I: American Theatre, Dec. 1, 1774-Sept. 2, 1775 and European Theatre, Dec 6, 1774-Aug. 9, 1775. (1965) (0)
The History of the British Empire, from the year 1765, to the end of 1783 : Containing an impartial history of the origin, progress, and termination of the American Revolution (1972) (0)
Records of their claims for losses of property in the province (1972) (0)
Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Volume IV, American Theatre: Feb. 19, 1776-Apr. 17, 1776; European Theatre: Feb. I, 1776-May 25, 1776; American Theatre: Apr. 18, 1776-May 8, 1776 (1970) (0)

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