| Description |
xi, 371 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-359) and index. |
| Contents |
I. Pursuit of Happiness. Causes of a revolution -- Colonial living -- Hard acts and shocking ideas -- Invitation to a tea party -- II. Drumming up a War. Flame kindled -- Opening shots -- Green Mountain triumph and Canadian catastrophe -- Boston victory -- We hold these truths -- III. Times that tried Men's Souls. Washington the loser -- Washington the winner -- England's best-laid plans -- Philadelphia fiasco and Saratoga triumph -- French connection -- Defeat and despair -- Spring and hope -- Fires in the wilderness -- Gone South -- Treason and mutiny -- IV. Most Glorious. Victory at sea -- Another shift to the South -- Yorktown: the world turned upside down -- Peace of Paris and a new order of the ages -- Appendix. American Revolution timeline -- Live and in person -- Read more, see more -- Index -- Picture credits. |
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Dramatis Personae: John Adams -- Samuel Adams -- Ethan Allen -- John Andre -- Benedict Arnold -- Crispus Attucks -- Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais -- Daniel Boone -- Joseph Brant -- John Burgoyne (Gentleman Johnny) -- Guy Carleton -- George Rogers Clark -- Henry Clinton -- Charles Cornwallis -- Comte Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse -- Silas Deane -- Comte Charles Hector Theodot d'Estaing -- John Dickinson -- Benjamin Franklin -- Thomas Gage -- Joseph Galloway -- Horatio Gates -- George III -- Lord George Sackville Germain -- Nathanael Greene -- Lord George Grenville -- Nathan Hale -- Alexander Hamilton -- John Hancock -- Patrick Henry -- Nicholas Herkimer -- Esek Hopkins -- Richard Howe -- William Howe -- John Jay -- Thomas Jefferson -- John Paul Jones -- Johann (Baron de Kalb) Kalb -- Henry Knox -- Wilhelm von Knyphausen -- Tadeusz Kosciuszko -- Marquis de Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Lafayette -- Henry Laurens -- Arthur Lee -- Charles Lee -- Henry ("Light-Horse Harry") Lee -- Benjamin Lincoln -- Francis ("Swamp Fox") Marion -- John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich -- Daniel Morgan -- Robert Morris -- William Moultrie -- Lord Frederick North -- James Otis -- Thomas Paine -- William "the Elder" Pitt -- Casimir Pulaski -- Israel Putnam -- Paul Revere -- Baron Friedrich Riedesel -- Comte de Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Rochambeau -- George Brydges Rodney -- Philip Schuyler -- Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus von Steuben -- John Sullivan -- Banastre Tarleton -- Charles Townshend -- Comte de Charles Gravier Vergennes -- Artemas Ward -- Joseph Warren -- George Washington -- Anthony Wayne. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
1402740867: $31.95 |
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9781402740862 |
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