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Allen French (28 November 1870 - 1946) was a historian and children's book author who did major research on the battles of Lexington and Concord, during the American Revolutionary War. He was a founding member and president of the Thoreau Society.
Born in Boston, French attended Harvard University for his undergraduate education. Several of his children's books were illustrated by painter Andrew Wyeth.
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Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Works
Fiction
- The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924.
- The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in year 1165, Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press, 1997
- The Lost Baron
- Sir Marrok
- Heroes of Iceland
- The Story of Grettir the Strong
- The Colonials
- The Barrier
- At Plattsburg, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917.
Non-fiction
- The Siege of Boston, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.
- First Year of the American Revolution
- General Gage's Informers
- Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight.
- Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Houghton Mifflin, 1955.
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