Almost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence
Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "my country, my honor, my life": bravery and death in war
- Pt. 1: going to war, 1775-1776
- "Fear is not an American art": the coming of the war
- "A loss that is greater than we can bear": going to war
- Choices, 1775
- Pt. 2: the war in the North, 1776-1779
- "Hastening fast to a crisis": June 1775-June 1776
- Choices, 1776
- "Knock him up for the campaign": the Battle for New York, 1776
- "This hour of adversity": to the end of 1776
- Choices, 1777
- "The caprice of war": America's pivotal victory at Saratoga
- "We rallied and broke": the campaign for Philadelphia, September-December 1777
- Choices, 1778
- "A respectable army": the grim year, 1778
- Choices, 1779
- "A band of brotherhood": the soldiers, the army, and the forgotten war in 1779
- "We have occasioned a good deal of terror": the war at sea
- Choices, 1780
- Pt. 3: the war in the South, 1780-1781
- "A year filled with our disgraces": defeat in the South, 1780
- "Southern means and Southern exertions": hope and despair, June-December 1780
- Choices, 1781
- "Bloody and severe": the pivotal Southern war, early 1781
- "We are suspended in the balance": Spring and Summer 1781
- Pt. 4: American victory, 1781-1783
- "America is ours": victory at Yorktown, 1781
- Choices, 1782
- "May we have peace in our time": peace and demobilization, 1782-1783
- "Little short of a miracle": accounting for America's victory.