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| Genre/Form: | Personal narratives Récits personnels Sources |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998. Spirit of 'seventy-six. New York, Harper & Row [1967] (OCoLC)655299445 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Steele Commager; Richard B Morris |
| OCLC Number: | 426466 |
| Description: | lii, 1348 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The fierce spirit of resistance -- Congress asserts the rights of Americans -- The war begins -- Bunker's Hill -- The battle for Boston -- The Canadian campaigns -- A great empire and little minds -- The great declaration -- The loyalists -- The struggle for democracy at home -- The battle for New York -- Bagging the fox -- The Burgoyne campaign -- Howe invades Pennsylvania -- France comes in -- England seeks reconciliation -- The patriots seize the initiative in the middle states -- Spies, treason and mutiny -- The home front in the war -- Health, hospitals and medicine -- Prisons and escapes -- Songs and ballads of the Revolution -- Sea battles and naval raids -- Privateering -- American diplomats on the vaunted scene of Europe -- War out of Niagara -- The conquest of the old Northwest -- The Redcoats carry the war to the South -- The second campaign to conquer the South -- The turn of the tide -- Virginia -- Yorktown : Washington's vindication -- Winning the peace -- Closing scenes. |
| Responsibility: | the story of the American Revolution as told by participants, edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris. |
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