The spirit of 'seventy-six : the story of the American Revolution as told by participants / edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris.
Here are letters, journals, diaries, official documents, diplomatic correspondence, recollections of individuals and Parliamentary debates, all for readers of American history.
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New York :
Harper & Row,
[1975], ©1958.
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| Edition: | Bicentennial ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.