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1 online resource |
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American history, culture and literature
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American history, culture and literature.
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter I; The French Alliance; Consternation in England; Views of the Different Parties; Lord North's Political Somersault; Strange Scene in the House of Commons; Treaty between France and the United States, Feb. 6, 1778; Great Britain Declares War against France, March 13; The Earl of Chatham; The King's Rage; What Chatham Would Have Tried to Do; Death of Chatham; His Prodigious Greatness; Lord North Remains in Power; His Commissioners in America Fail to Accomplish Anything; Chapter II; Valley Forge; Distress in America; Lack of Organization |
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Vexatious Meddling of CongressSufferings at Valley Forge; Promoting Officers for Non-Military Reasons; Absurd Talk of John Adams; Gates Is Puffed up with Success; And Shows Symptoms of Insubordination; The Conway Cabal; Attempts to Injure Washington; Conway's Letter to Gates; Gates's Letter to Washington; Washington's Reply; Gates Tries, Unsuccessfully, to Save Himself by Lying; But Is Successful, as Usual, in Keeping from under Fire; The Forged Letters; Scheme for Invading Canada; The Dinner at York; Absurdity of the Scheme; Downfall of the Cabal; Decline of the Continental Congress |
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Increasing Influence of WashingtonChapter III; Monmouth and Newport; Baron Friedrich von Steuben; Steuben Arrives in America; Steuben at Valley Forge; Steuben's Manual of Tactics; Sir William Howe Resigns His Command; The Mischianza; The British Evacuate Philadelphia, June 18, 1778; Arnold Takes Command at Philadelphia; Return of Charles Lee; Lee's Reasons for Returning; Washington Pursues the British; His Plan of Attack; Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778; Lee's Shameful Retreat; Washington Retrieves the Situation; It Was a Drawn Battle; Washington's Letter to Lee; Trial and Sentence of Lee |
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Lee's Character and SchemesLee's Expulsion from the Army; His Death; The Situation at New York; The French Fleet Unable to Enter the Harbour; General Prescott at Newport; Attempt to Capture the British Garrison at Newport; Sullivan Seizes Butts Hill; Naval Battle Prevented by Storm; Estaing Goes to Boston, to Refit His Ships; Yeomanry Go Home in Disgust; Battle of Butts Hill, Aug. 29, 1778; The Enterprise Abandoned; Unpopularity of the French Alliance; Stagnation of the War in the Northern States; Chapter IV; War on the Frontier; Joseph Brant, Missionary and War-Chief |
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The Tories of Western New YorkThe Valley of Wyoming and Its Settlers from Connecticut; Massacre at Wyoming, July 3, 1778; Massacre at Cherry Valley, Nov. 10; Sullivan's Expedition; Battle of Newtown, Aug. 29, 1779; Devastation of the Iroquois Country; Reign of Terror in the Mohawk Valley; The Wilderness Beyond the Alleghanies; Rivalry between Pennsylvania and Virginia for the Possession of Fort Pitt; Lord Dunmore's War, 1774; Logan and Cresap; Battle of Point Pleasant and Its Consequences; Settlement of Kentucky; And of Eastern Tennessee; Defeat of the Cherokees on the Watauga |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
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American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB989PWKg6VGKmH6MwK |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1783 |
| ISBN |
9781536150278 (electronic bk.) |
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1536150274 (electronic bk.) |
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9781536150261 |
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