The Compact History of the Revolutionary War
The Boston Tea Party. Brandywine. Germantown. Bunker Hill. Lexington. Saratoga. Charleston. George Washington. Paul Reve
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English Pages 565 Year 2018
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- R. Ernest Dupuy
- Trevor N. Dupuy
- Categories
- History
- American Studies
- Commentary
- First published in 1963 by Hawthorn Books, Inc.
Table of contents :
Preface
Maps
1 Careering to Collision
2 Hornets in Homespun
3 An Army in the Making
4 A Hill by Any Name
5 Rebellion Becomes War
6 On to Quebec!
7 Guns to Boston
8 Preliminaries in the South
9 Defeat in the North
10 Munitions Flow through Troubled Seas
11 A Declaration Frustrates the Howe Brothers
12 Defeat on Long Island
13 Struggle for New York
14 The Month that Tried Men’s Souls
15 Laurels on the Delaware
16 Problems and Plans
18 Washington Attempts the Impossible
19 Saratoga
20 Valley Forge
21 Sunstroke in New Jersey
22 Newport and New York
23 Flaming Arrows
24 “I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight”
25 Westward Ho!
26 The British Turn South
27 Clinton’s Problems
28 Conquest and Civil War in the South
29 Stalemate and Treason in the North
30 Partisans and Regulars – Glory and Disgrace
31 “Old Morgan Was Never Beaten”
32 THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT
33 How to be Victorious without Winning Battles
34 Maneuvers in Virginia and in the North
35 Sea Power Shapes the End – 1780-81
36 The World Turned Upside Down
37 Slowly Falls the Curtain
Envoi
Reference Maps
Appendix I: Army Weapons, Tactics and Uniforms
Appendix II: Naval Weapons, Tactics and Uniforms
Appendix IV: Fortifications and Siegecraft
Appendix V: The Historians and the Generalship of George Washington
Appendix VI: David Bushnell’s Submarine
Appendix VII: The Strange Case of Silas Deane
Appendix VIII: Summary of Operations Following Yorktown
Bibliography of Works Consulted
