The American Revolution
Subtitle: what really happened
By: Alan Axelrod
Publisher: Fall River Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781435140721
Subjects: History
Work titles: Real history of the American Revolution
Notes: "Originally published in 2007 as The Real History of the American Revolution"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The Pursuit of Happiness. The causes of a revolution; title: Colonial living; title: Hard acts and shocking ideas; title: Invitation to a tea party; title: II. Drumming up a War. The flame kindled; title: Opening shots; title: Green Mountain triumph and Canadian catastrophe; title: Boston victory; title: II. The Times that Tried Men's Souls. Washington the loser; title: Washington the winner; title: England's best-laid plans; title: Philadelphia fiasco and Saratoga triumph; title: The French connection; title: Defeat and despair; title: Spring and hope; title: FIres in the wilderness; title: Gone South; title: Treason and mutiny; title: IV. Most Glorious. Victory at sea; title: Another shift to the South; title: Yorktown: the world turned upside down; title: The peace of Paris and a new order of the ages; title: Dramatis Personae: John Adams; title: Samuel Adams; title: Ethan Allen; title: John Andre; title: Benedict Arnold; title: Crispus Attucks; title: Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; title: Daniel Boone; title: Joseph Brant; title: John Burgoyne (Gentleman Johnny); title: Guy Carleton; title: George Rogers Clark; title: Henry Clinton; title: Charles Cornwallis; title: Comte Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse; title: Silas Deane; title: Comte Charles Hector Theodot d'Estaing; title: John Dickinson; title: Benjamin Franklin; title: Thomas Gage; title: Joseph Galloway; title: Horatio Gates; title: George III; title: Lord George Sackville Germain; title: Nathaniel Greene; title: Lord George Grenville; title: Nathan Hale; title: Alexander Hamilton; title: John Hancock; title: Patrick Henry; title: Herkimer; title: Hopkins; title: Richard Howe; title: William Howe; title: John Jay; title: Thomas Jefferson; title: John Jones; title: Kalb; title: Henry Knox; title: Knyphause; title: Kosciuszko; title: Lafayette; title: Henry Laurens; title: Arthur Lee; title: Charles Lee; title: Henry Lee ("Light-Horse Harry"); title: Benjamin Lincoln; title: Francis Marion ("Swamp Fox"); title: John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich; title: Daniel Morgan; title: Robert Morris; title: William Moultrie; title: Lord Frederick North; title: James Otis; title: Thomas Paine; title: William "The Elder" Pitt; title: Casimir Pulaski; title: Israel Putnam; title: Paul Revere; title: Baron Friedrich Riedesel; title: Comte de Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Rochambeau George Brydges Rodney; title: Philip Schuyler; title: Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus von Steuben; title: John Sullivan; title: Banastre Tarleton; title: Charles Townshend; title: Charles Gravier Vergennes; title: Artemas Ward; title: Joseph Warren; title: George Washington; title: Anthony Wayne.