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George Washington's war : the saga of the American Revolution /

In this third volume of brilliant narratives of important events in American history, Robert Leckie brings alive the dramatic story of the American Revolution - just as he caught the drama and excitement of World War II in Delivered from Evil and the Civil War in None Died in Vain. With tremendous n...

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Основен автор: Leckie, Robert, 1920-
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : HarperCollins, c1992.
Издание: 1st ed.
Предмети:
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
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Съдържание:
  • The fall of Quebec
  • The Americans
  • Mercantilism/birth cry of American freedom
  • King George III
  • The Stamp Act and Samuel Adams
  • George's first seizure/Stamp Act repealed
  • The Boston Massacre
  • John Adams
  • Trial of the Redcoats
  • The Boston Tea Party
  • Thomas Gage
  • Gage takes over
  • Dr. Joseph Warren and Paul Revere
  • Lexington and Concord
  • Ethan Allen and Fort Ticonderoga
  • Congress chooses a war chief
  • George Washington
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill
  • British shock and chagrin
  • George III's war machine
  • Washington's Yankee Doodles
  • Lord George Germain
  • The lure of Canada
  • Benedict Arnold and Quebec
  • Toward an American navy
  • Charles Lee and Charleston
  • Henry Knox and the Guns of Ti
  • Howe evacuates Boston
  • Tom Paine and Common Sense
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • The Battle of Long Island
  • "Peace" Talks/Alexander Hamilton/Kip's Bay
  • The rabble aroused/New York burns/Nathan Hale
  • The Battle of White Plains
  • Disaster at Fort Washington
  • "Admiral" Arnold saves the cause
  • The cause collapsing/The perfidy of Charles Lee
  • Trenton: Washington rallies the revolution
  • Princeton: Cornwallis's "bag" comes up empty
  • The Tories sour on "Saviors"/Washington acclaimed
  • The Marquis de Lafayette
  • The Battle of Brandywine Creek
  • The Battle of Germantown
  • John Burgoyne
  • Saratoga I: Ticonderoga falls
  • Saratoga II: Fort Stanwix, Oriskany, Bennington
  • Saratoga III: Freeman's Farm, Bemis Heights-Finis
  • After Saratoga/The French alliance
  • The fall of the Delaware river forts
  • Valley Forge/Von Steuben
  • The Conway cabal
  • The British Lion purrs
  • The British in Philadelphia/Howe goes home
  • The Battle of Monmouth Courthouse
  • The French arrive/Newport fizzle/Savannah lost
  • The border war/John Paul Jones
  • Stony Point/Savannah repulse/Inflation
  • The fall of Charleston
  • Lord Charles Cornwallis
  • The Battle of Camden
  • London riots prolong the war
  • Treason I: Arnold's disaffection
  • Treason II: Arnold's betrayal
  • Treason III: Andre's end
  • The Battle of King's Mountain
  • Mutiny/Greene and Morgan/Cowpens
  • The Battle of Guilford Court House
  • Greene reconquers the South
  • Yorktown I: France delivers
  • Yorktown II: The end
  • Epilogue: A new order of the ages.

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