Almost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence /
In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it...
| Основен автор: | Ferling, John E. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Almost a miracle. |
Съдържание:
- "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.