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Informationen zum Autor George F. Scheer has edited and written several books, popular and scholarly. He is an elected member of the Society of American Historians. Hugh F. Rankin is the author of The American Revolution, Greene and Cornwallis: The Campaign in the Carolinas, and more than a dozen other books. Klappentext Here is the American Revolution, the epic struggle that brought forth a new nation, told in a great measure by those who fought and lived it: major figures like Washington, Revere, Franklin and many others heretofore unknown. This is a document of the first great war of principle as it felt and sounded to those who were there, making history. Zusammenfassung Here is the American Revolution, the epic struggle that brought forth a new nation, told in a great measure by those who fought and lived it: major figures like Washington, Revere, Franklin and many others heretofore unknown. This is a document of the first great war of principle as it felt and sounded to those who were there, making history. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction * Lexington! April 19! 1775 * Concord! April 19! 1775 * Cambridge Camp and Ticonderoga! AprilMay 1775 * Bunker Hill! June 17! 1775 * America Finds a General! MayJune 1775 * Washington Takes Command! Summer 1775 * The British in Boston! Summer-Fall 1775 * Victory at Boston! Winter 1775Spring 1776 * Quebec! JulyNovember 1775 * Quebec! November 1775June 1776 * Sullivans Island! June 29! 1776 * New York! AprilAugust 1776 * Long Island! August 2229! 1776 * New York and Harlem Heights! AugustSeptember 1776 * White Plains and the Hudson River Forts! AugustNovember 1776 * The New Jersey Campaign! November 1776January 1777 * The Second New Jersey Campaign! JanuaryJune 1777 * Brandywine! September 11! 1777 * Germantown! October 4! 1777 * Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne Opens His Campaign! Summer 1777 * Bennington! August 16! 1777 * Saratoga! SeptemberOctober 1777 * Valley Forge and the Conway Cabal! Winter 17771778 * Training at Valley Forge! Spring 1778 * The British in Philadelphia! Winter 1777Spring 1778 * Valley Forge to Monmouth! MayJune 1778 * Newport! Summer 1778 * War in the Indian Country! 17781779 * Winter and Stony Point! Winter 1778Summer 1779 * Morristown! Winter 17791780 * Benedict Arnold! Autumn 1780 * The South! 17781780 * Camden! August 16! 1780 * Kings Mountain! October 7! 1780 * Cowpens! January 17! 1781 * The Race to the Dan! JanuaryFebruary 1781 * Guilford Court House! March 15! 1781 * Greene in South Carolina! April 1781December 1782 * The Virginia Campaign! MayAugust 1781 * Yorktown! SeptemberOctober 1781 * The Last Days! 17821783 ...
