Allen French (November 28, 1870 October 6, 1946) was a historian and children's book author who did major research on the

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Battles of Lexington and Concord The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 were the first major military actions of the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Patriot (American Revolution), Patriot militias from America's Thirteen Co ...

. He was a founding member and president of the

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Biography

Born in

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

, French attended

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

for his undergraduate education. Several of his children's books were illustrated by painter

Andrew Wyeth Andrew Newell Wyeth ( ; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist and one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century. Though he considered himself to be an "abstractionist," Wyeth was primarily a realis ...

Works

Fiction

*''Sir Marrok: A Tale of the Days of King Arthur'' (1902); New York: Century. *''At Plattsburg'' (1917), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. *''The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow'' (1924), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. *''The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in Year 1165'' (19??)

997 Year 997 ( CMXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Japan * 1 February: Empress Teishi gives birth to Princess Shushi - she is the first child of the emperor, but because of the power stru ...

Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press. *''The Lost Baron'' *''Heroes of Iceland'' *''The Story of Grettir the Strong'' *''The Colonials'' *''The Barrier'' *''Pelham and His Friend Tim''

Non-fiction

*''The Siege of Boston'' (1911), New York: The Macmillan Company. *''First Year of the American Revolution'' *''General Gage's Informers'' *
The Day of Concord and Lexington The Nineteenth of April, 1775
' (1925) **''Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight'' (re-published with Leslie Perrin Wilson in 2010) *''Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration'' (1955), Houghton Mifflin.Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Google Books
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1870 births 1946 deaths American children's writers American military historians Harvard University alumni {{US-child-writer-stub