An edition of The War for American Independence
(2002)
The War for American Independence
from 1760 to the surrender at Yorktown in 1781
1st Illinois ed.
by Samuel B. Griffith
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The War for American Independence: from 1760 to the surrender at Yorktown in 1781
2002, University of Illinois Press
in English
- 1st Illinois ed.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Book I
MOST TROUBLESOME AND BOISTEROUS TIMES
1. A Patriot King 3
2. A Contest Appears to Be Opened 13
3. A Most Pernicious Measure 26
4. A Farmer in Pennsylvania 47
5. Quarrells, Rencounters and Combats 70
Book II
LYONS AND LAMBS
1. A Nest of Locusts; A Focus of Tumult 89
2. All America Is in a Flame 113
3. Blows Must Decide 126
4. To Scourge Them with Rods of Iron 143
5. An Affair that Happened on the 19th Inst. 157
Book III
IMBARKED ON A TEMPESTUOUS OCEAN
1. A Kind of Destiny 175
2. Ohl Mad, Mad Englandl 199
3. An Ill-omened and Inauspicious Character 223
4. To Restore Liberty to Our Brethren in Canada 237
5. Parole: The Congress; Countersign: America 252
Book IV
AMERICA IS AN UGLY JOB,
A DAMNED AFFAIR INDEED
1. Really Gaming Deep 273
2. An Impudent and Atrocious Proclamation 287
3. A Glorious Achievement 301
4. The Dissolution of Our Army Is Approaching 317
5. To Strike Some Stroke 338
Book V
ORGANIZED DISASTER
1. Thoughts for Conducting the War from
the Side of Canada 363
2. Messengers of Justice and Wrath 373
3. The Fickle Goddess Fortune 387
4. A Gathering Storm 403
5. Not More than Mortal 419
Book VI
OBSTINATE REBELS
1. You Cannot Conquer America 435
2. To Starve, Dissolve, or Disperse 453
3. Our Situation Is Alarming 467
4. America Takes Her Rank Among the Nations 481
5. Will Mr. Washington Attack? 498
Book VII
THE COMMON CAUSE
1. Spirit Equal to the Risk 515
2. Hourly Change of Circumstance 537
3. On the Brink of a Precipice 565
4. Something Sould Be Hazarded 583
5. To Spirit Up the People 608
6. With Zeal and Bayonets Only 624
7. A Perilous Adventure 638
8. At the Eve of Great Events 654.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [698]-709) and index.
Originally published: In defense of the public liberty. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
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