A Short History of the American RevolutionHarper Collins, 27.01.1993 - 304 Seiten The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence. Offering a spirited chronicle of the war itself -- the campaigns and strategies, the leaders on both sides, the problems of fielding and sustaining an army, and of maintaining morale -- Stokesbury also brings the reader to the Peace of Paris in 1783 and into the miltarily exhausted, financially ruined yet victorious United States as it emerged to create a workable national system. |
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Action and Inaction | 49 |
Creating States and Armies | 64 |
War in the Grand Manner | 82 |
The Northern Campaign of 1776 | 103 |
Small Mercies | 113 |
The War at Sea | 162 |
Progression and Regression | 174 |
The War Moves South | 192 |
By Land and by Sea | 206 |
Seasons of Disaster | 224 |
The Climax of the War | 240 |
The World War | 258 |
Peacemaking | 270 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 115 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Seite 116 - The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct will pursue his principles unto death.
Seite 115 - ... woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Seite 65 - THE power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished...
Seite 66 - We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Seite 65 - Nations, which was published in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence...
Seite 13 - Thomas Gage, commander in chief of His Majesty's forces in North America, then on home leave, in the Closet.
Seite 289 - Steuben (Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan: 1952) I: 242-244, II: 726-728).