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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Axelrod |
ISBN: | 0028633792 9780028633794 |
OCLC Number: | 42885392 |
Description: | xx, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part 1: Prelude to independence -- Why did Washington cross the Delaware? -- In the wake of Columbus -- The colonial way -- Wilderness wars -- All the king's men -- Regulators, rioters, and a massacre in Boston -- Tea parties and sons of liberty -- Part 2: Heard 'round the world -- The midnight raid -- Green mountains and Bunker Hill -- Canadian sunset -- The battle for Boston -- Common Sense and a bold declaration -- Part 3: Times that try men's souls -- The battle for New York -- Crossing the Delaware -- Gentleman Johnny -- Philadelphia falls -- Saratoga saga -- Part 4: Winter of discontent -- Defeat and disloyalty -- Valley Forge -- White war, red blood -- Southern exposure -- A turncoat and the mutineers -- Part 5: "The world turned upside down" -- "I have not yet begun to fight" -- Backcountry battles -- Yorktown: "A most glorious day" -- Winning the peace -- A new order of the ages -- Appendixes: Who was who in the American Revolution -- Fighting words -- Battles, battlefields, and historic sites -- Revolutionary reading. |
Other Titles: | American Revolution |
Responsibility: | by Alan Axelrod. |
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Abstract:
Looks at the causes, effects, and events of the American Revolution from the Sugar Act to the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolution.
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