People''s War - Original Voices of the American Revolution

The outcome was one of history’s great, surprising events, David slaying Goliath. At the beginning of the war, which cast the world’s most powerful nation against a shaky collection of its wildly independent colonies, no such outcome was conceivable. But as the upstarts slowly welded themselves into an effective force, step by step the Americans whipped the mighty British to found the world’s most enduring democracy.

Drawing on thousands of original sources---diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers, pension applications---the author has culled the most colorful and vivid passages and then woven them into a vibrant, eye-witness narrative that takes the reader from the peaceful days before the Stamp Act, through all the major events of the war, and ends with farewell accounts of what happened in later life to the people we have come to know along the way.

List of contents

Table of Contents



Introductioni

Chapter One: The Mother Country

Chapter Two: Boston & New England

Chapter Three:New York & Saratoga

Chapter Four: Pennsylvania & The Frontier

Chapter Five: At Sea & Overseas

Chapter Six: The South & Yorktown

Chapter Seven: Aftermath

Appendix

Brief Outline of The Revolutionary War

About the author

By Noel Rae

Product details

• Authors: Noel Rae, Rae Noel
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780762790104
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-9010-4
• No. of pages: 624
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Royal Navy, Washington, History, HISTORY / General, Madison, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Adams, Great Britain, Franklin, Jefferson, Colonies, Trenton, History of the Americas, Yorktown, Steuben, Roger Lamb, Mother England, Green Mountain Boys, Hessians, George III, George II, Mother Country