The spirit of 'seventy-six: the story of the American Revolution as told by participants
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Morris, Richard B.1904-1989 joint ed, editor
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9780060108342
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History
Personal narratives
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Juvenile literature
Personal narratives
Sources
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Juvenile literature
Table of Contents
From the Book - [1st ed.].
V. I. 1. The fierce spirit of resistance. : Mohawk Indians spill tea in Boston Harbor ; Parliament punishes the Bostonians ; Intolerable acts unite the colonies ; Boston beleaguered and saved
2. Congress asserts the rights of Americans : Union for resistance ; The First Congress debates the rights of Americans ; The declaration of rights
3. The war begins : Will the Americans fight? ; Colonel Leslie's expedition to Salem ; The midnight ride of Paul Revere ; A town called Lexington ; Concord ; Sounding the alarm ; Ticonderoga ; Virginia takes the road to revolution
4. Bunker's Hill : The siege of Boston ; Bunker's Hill: the American version ; Bunker's Hill: the British version
5. The battle for Boston : Washington is appointed to the command of the American army ; Boston under siege ; Creating an American army ; Holding the army together ; The British in Boston are frustrated and bored ; The British navy ineffectively harasses the Americans ; Boston redeemed
6. The Canadian campaigns : The beginning: the capture of St. Johns and Montreal ; Arnold leads an expedition to Quebec ; The fateful assaunt on Quebec ; The army in retreat ; Arnold saves the American army: the battles on Lake Champlain
7. "A great empire and little minds" : A great empire and little minds go ill together ; The American war divides English opinion ; Discontent in Britain ; The war of pamphlets ; The great debate ; George III hires mercenaries
8. The great declaration : Benjamin Rush limns some of the founding fathers ; Defiance or reconciliation ; The turn of the tide ; Independence like a torrent ; The final debate ; The great declaration
9. The loyalists : The loyalists argue their cause ; The ruth of civil war ; The propriety and legality of loyalist oaths ; The rising tide of fury ; Tory defiance ; Loyalists in exile ; The return of the natives
10. The struggle for democracy at home : All power is in the people ; Massachusetts realizes the theories of the wisest writers ; Two bills of rights ; Freedom embraces religion as well as politics ; How reconcile freedom to slavery? ; Austerity, morality and equality ; Education for a free people ; Will the revolution wipe out class distinctions?
11. The battle for New York : The redcoats bring war to the middle states ; The eve of battle ; The Howes' first attempt at conciliation ; The battle of Long Island begins ; Sullivan leaves the back door open ; Stirling makes a gallant stand ; The withdrawal to New York ; The futile mission of the Howes: the negotiations with members of Congress ; Awaiting the attack ; The East River crossing and the Kip's bay rout ; The British repulse at Harlem Heights ; New York in flames: the great fire of September 20 ; The martyrdom of Nathan Hale ; Awaiting Howe's next move ; The retreat to White Plains ; Howe's futile stroke at White Plains ; The fall of Fort Washington
12. Bagging the fox : The retreat to New Jersey ; Counterattack: the victory at Trenton ; Princeton ; Pillaging and war atrocities ; Stalemate
13. The Burgoyne campaign : The plan for a three-pronged attack on New York ; First round: a war of words ; The fall of Ticonderoga ; Burgoyne's first serious blunder ; The Jenny McCrea atrocity ; The rout of St. Leger ; The Hessian disaster at Bennington ; Saratoga: the first phase: Freeman's farm ; Sir Henry Clinton's relief expedition ; Saratoga: the last phase: Bemis Heights ; The surrender of Burgoyne
14. Howe invades Pennsylvania : Philadelphia is the objective ; Brandywine ; The fall of Philadelphia ; Germantown ; The struggle for control of the Delaware ; Valley Forge ; The "Conway cabal" ; The British abandon Philadelphia
v. II. 15. France comes in : America seeks foreign aid without entangling alliances ; France gives aid short of war ; France enters the war
16. England seeks reconciliation : The attempt to woo Franklin ; The Carlisle Commission ; Forlorn hopes of peace
17. The patriots seize the initiative in the middle states : General Prescott is captured ; Lafayette's abortive expedition to Canada ; Monmouth ; The Rhode Island campaign of 1778 ; Stony Point ; Paulus Hook ; Springfield ; Benedict Arnold fires New London
18. Spies, treason and mutiny : Dr. Church goes over to the enemy ; Arson in America and England ; A regius professor remains loyal to his king ; Dr. Edward Bancroft gives the history of his career as a spy ; The treason of Benedict Arnold ; The capture and execution of Andre ́; Mutiny
19. The home front in the war : Munitions, supplies and impressment ; Holding the price and wages line ; Further efforts to hold the price line ; The issuance and control of the currency ; An end to depreciation: the forty-to-one formula ; The bank and the financier ; Profiteers and profiteering
20. Health, hospitals and medicine : Setting up a medical establishment ; The ravages of smallpox on the expedition against Canada ; The breakdown of hospital services ; Dr. Shippen and Dr. Rush try to bring order out of chaos ; The impact of the war on medicine
21. Prisons and escapes : Stormont rejects Franklin's plea for mercy to prisoners ; John Leach and his companions suffer in a Boston prison ; The sufferings of American prisoners in New York ; The horrors of the British prison ships ; Congress keeps the "convention" troops in America ; The sufferings of loyalist and British prisoners ; American prisoners in English gaols ; Captain Asgill is reprieved as a compliment to Louis XVI
22. Songs and ballads of the Revolution : Patriot ; Loyalist and British
23. Sea battles and naval raids : Founding the American navy ; Congress runs the navy ; Sandwich presides over the misfortunes of the British navy ; The naval war off the New England coast ; A submarine in New York waters? ; The naval war in foreign waters ; John Paul Jones ; The Trumbull and the Watt ; The protector and the Admiral Duff ; The expeditions of Captain John Barry
24. Privateering : Boon or bane of the revolutionary cause? ; Some privateering adventures ; Captain Conyngham strikes at Britain from French bases
25. American diplomats on the vaunted scene of Europe : The American commission is riddled with dissension ; Mission to Spain ; John Adams descends upon the Dutch
26. War out of Niagara : Both sides enlist Indians ; Wyoming ; The Americans strike back: the Sullivan expedition ; The Americans strike back: the Brodhead expedition ; The final campaigns along the New York borderlands
27. The conquest of the old Northwest : Kaskaskia and Vincennes: the first conquest ; The capture of Vincennes ; The fight for St. Louis ; Kentucky: war to the bitter end
28. The Redcoats carry the war to the South : The Charleston expedition
29. The second campaign to conquer the South : The fall of Savannah ; Advance and repulse in Georgia ; Prevost's Charleston expedition ; The Franco-American expedition to recapture Savannah ; The fall of Charleston ; The massacre at the Waxhaws ; Patriots whip Tories at Ramsour's Mill ; Pillage and civil war flame in South Carolina ; At Camden Gates's Northern Laurels turn to Southern Willows ; The patriot cause looks up: King's mountain
30. The turn of the tide : Partisan warfare takes its toll ; Cowpens, the patriots' best-fought battle ; The hunter becomes the hunted: Guilford Courthouse ; The partisan role in the reconquest of South Carolina ; Hobkirk's Hill, the second battle of Camden ; The fall of the British outposts ; Eutaw Springs
31. Virginia : General Arnold invades Virginia ; The fateful squabble between Clinton and Cornwallis ; Lafayette to the rescue
32. Yorktown: Washington's vindication : Washington's strategy looks to the Chesapeake ; De Grasse's naval victory ; The siege ; Cornwallis surrenders
33. Winning the peace : France seeks to dictate the American peace ; Britain sues for peace ; "The point of independence" ; The battle for the fisheries ; The settlement of the loyalist question ; The reception of the peace treaty
34. Closing scenes : In England defeat shakes the foundations of monarchy ; The alternatives of dictatorship or republican government ; Washington's parting advice to the new nation ; "Peace made, a new scene opens"
From the Book - Bicentennial ed.
The fierce spirit of resistance
Congress asserts the rights of Americans
The war begins
Bunker's Hill
The battle for Boston
The Canadian campaigns
"A great empire and little minds"
The great declaration
The loyalists
The struggle for democracy at home
The battle for New York
"Bagging the fox"
The Burgoyne Campaign
Howe invades Pennsylvania
France comes in
England seeks reconciliation
The patriots seize the initiative in the middle states
Spies, treason and mutiny
The home front in the war
Health, hospitals and medicine
Prisons and escapes
Songs and ballads of the revolution
Sea battles and naval raids
Privateering
American diplomats on the vaunted scene of Europe
War out of Niagara
The conquest of the old northwest
The Redcoats carry the war to the south
The second campaign to conquer the south
The turn of the tide
Virginia
Yorktown : Washington's vindication
Winning the peace
Closing scenes.
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