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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 demonstrate...

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Main Author: Ferling, John E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
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.
Biography
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780198040057
0198040059
1281162469
9781281162465
9781429491686
142949168X
9786611162467
6611162461
9780199758470
0199758476
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "My country, my honor, my life" : bravery and death in war
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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-- 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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