The fate of the day the war for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
"The first twenty-one months of the American Revolution--which began at Lexington and ended at Princeton--was the story of a ragged group of militiamen and soldiers fighting to forge a new nation. By the winter of 1777, the exhausted Continental Army could claim only that it had barely escaped annih...
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New York :
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| Series: | Atkinson, Rick. Revolution trilogy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: France, February-April 1777
- The march of annihilation : Fort Ticonderoga, New York, July-August 1777
- This cursed, cut-up land : New York, July 1777
- Fellows willing to go to Heaven : Little Neshaminy Creek, Pennsylvania, August 1777
- Thine arrows stick fast in me : Oriskany, New York, and Bennington, Vermont, August 1777
- A barbarous business in a barbarous country : Brandywine, Pennsylvania, September 1777
- These are dreadful times : Philadelphia and Paoli, Pennsylvania, September 1777
- Born under a fiery planet : Germantown, Pennsylvania, October 1777
- To risk all upon one rash stroke : Saratoga, New York, September 1777
- How art thou fallen : Saratoga, New York, October 1777
- The elements in flames : Philadelphia, October-December 1777
- The King's War : London, November 1777-February 1778
- Blessed be he that expects nothing : Paris, December 1777-March 1778
- The vortex of small fortunes : Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, January-June 1778
- I would rather lose the crown : London and Portsmouth, England, April-June 1778
- The French flag in all its glory : Paris and the English Channel, February-July 1778
- Flying from a shadow : Monmouth Court House, New Jersey, June 1778
- Fortune is a fickle jade : New York and Newport, Rhode Island, July-August 1778
- A star and a stripe from the rebel flag : New York and Savannah, Georgia, October 1778-February 1779
- The uncertainty of human prospects : Philadelphia, December 1778-February 1779
- A Summons to Queens House : London, January-July 1779
- I detest that sort of war : Hampton Roads, Virginia, and Stony Point, New York, March-July 1779
- The valley of bones : The American Frontier, June-September 1779
- Everything is now at stake : British Home Waters, July-September 1779
- The greatest event that has happened : Savannah, Georgia, September-October 1779
- Eternity is nearer every day : Morristown, New Jersey, December 1779-February 1780
- She stoops to conquer : Charleston, South Carolina, February-June 1780
- Epilogue: Britain and America, 1780.
