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Author Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019.

Title Iron tears : America's battle for freedom, Britain's quagmire, 1775-1783 / Stanley Weintraub.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E249.3 .W45 2005    Available  ---
Description xviii, 375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-361) and index.
Contents Preface : The abandoned canvas -- "Cousin America" : 1775 -- The secretary for America : 1775-1776 -- "A most unaccountable madness" : January 1776-June 1776 -- A most precarious independence : July 1776-December 1776 -- The best laid schemes : January 1777-July 1777 -- Saratoga trumps Philadelphia : July 1977-December -- Except in Parliament : January 17778-June 1778 -- The French connection : June 1778-December 1778 -- The war on trial : January 1779-June 1779 -- Moderately feeding the war : June 1779-December -- The time of the tumults : January 1780-June 1780 -- A dearth of heroes : June 1780-December 1780 -- Marching about the country : January 1781-July 1781 -- "The world turn'd upside down" : July 1781-December 1781 --The failure of fire and sword : January 1782-January 1784.
Subject United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Foreign public opinion, British.
Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Public opinion.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- British forces.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1760-1789
ISBN 0743226879