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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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Main Author: Ferling, John E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2007]
Edition:Book Club edition.
Subjects and Genres:
United States. > Continental Army > Biography.
United States. > Continental Army > Military life.
Generals > United States > Biography.
Soldiers > United States > History > 18th century.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Campaigns.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783.
Biographies.
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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.

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