The War for American Independence
Subtitle: from 1760 to the surrender at Yorktown in 1781
By: Samuel B. Griffith II.
Edition: 1st Illinois ed.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 725
Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [698]-709) and index.
Originally published: In defense of the public liberty. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Book I; title: MOST TROUBLESOME AND BOISTEROUS TIMES; title: 1. A Patriot King 3; title: 2. A Contest Appears to Be Opened 13; title: 3. A Most Pernicious Measure 26; title: 4. A Farmer in Pennsylvania 47; title: 5. Quarrells, Rencounters and Combats 70; title: Book II; title: LYONS AND LAMBS; title: 1. A Nest of Locusts; A Focus of Tumult 89; title: 2. All America Is in a Flame 113; title: 3. Blows Must Decide 126; title: 4. To Scourge Them with Rods of Iron 143; title: 5. An Affair that Happened on the 19th Inst. 157; title: Book III; title: IMBARKED ON A TEMPESTUOUS OCEAN; title: 1. A Kind of Destiny 175; title: 2. Ohl Mad, Mad Englandl 199; title: 3. An Ill-omened and Inauspicious Character 223; title: 4. To Restore Liberty to Our Brethren in Canada 237; title: 5. Parole: The Congress; Countersign: America 252; title: Book IV; title: AMERICA IS AN UGLY JOB,; title: A DAMNED AFFAIR INDEED; title: 1. Really Gaming Deep 273; title: 2. An Impudent and Atrocious Proclamation 287; title: 3. A Glorious Achievement 301; title: 4. The Dissolution of Our Army Is Approaching 317; title: 5. To Strike Some Stroke 338; title: Book V; title: ORGANIZED DISASTER; title: 1. Thoughts for Conducting the War from; title: the Side of Canada 363; title: 2. Messengers of Justice and Wrath 373; title: 3. The Fickle Goddess Fortune 387; title: 4. A Gathering Storm 403; title: 5. Not More than Mortal 419; title: Book VI; title: OBSTINATE REBELS; title: 1. You Cannot Conquer America 435; title: 2. To Starve, Dissolve, or Disperse 453; title: 3. Our Situation Is Alarming 467; title: 4. America Takes Her Rank Among the Nations 481; title: 5. Will Mr. Washington Attack? 498; title: Book VII; title: THE COMMON CAUSE; title: 1. Spirit Equal to the Risk 515; title: 2. Hourly Change of Circumstance 537; title: 3. On the Brink of a Precipice 565; title: 4. Something Sould Be Hazarded 583; title: 5. To Spirit Up the People 608; title: 6. With Zeal and Bayonets Only 624; title: 7. A Perilous Adventure 638; title: 8. At the Eve of Great Events 654.