* Introduction The Fierce Spirit of Resistance * Mohawk Indians Spill Tea in Boston Harbor * Parliament Punishes the Bostonians * Intolerable Acts Unite the Colonies * Boston Beleaguered and Saved Congress Asserts the Rights of Americans * Union for Resistance * The First Congress Debates the Rights of Americans * The Declaration of Rights The War Begins * Will the Americans Fight? * Colonel Leslie's Expedition to Salem * The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere * A Town Called Lexington * Concord * Sounding the Alarm * Ticonderoga * Virginia Takes the Road to Revolution Bunker's Hill * The Siege of Boston * Bunker's Hill: The American Version * Bunker's Hill: The British Version The Battle for Boston * Washington Is Appointed to the Command of the American Army * Boston under Siege * Creating an American Army * Holding the Army Together * The British in Boston Are Frustrated and Bored * The British Navy Ineffectively Harasses the Americans * Boston Redeemed The Canadian Campaigns * The Beginning: The Capture of St. Johns and Montreal * Arnold Leads an Expedition to Quebec * The Fateful Assault on Quebec * The Army in Retreat * Arnold Saves the American Army: The Battles on Lake Champlain "A Great Empire and Little Minds" * A Great Empire and Little Minds Go Ill Together * The American War Divides English Opinion * Discontent in Britain * The War of Pamphlets * The Great Debate * George III Hires Mercenaries The Great Declaration * Benjamin Rush Limns Some of the Founding Fathers * Defiance or Reconciliation * The Turn of the Tide * Independence like a Torrent * The Final Debate * The Great Declaration The Loyalists * The Loyalists Argue Their Cause * The Ruth of Civil War * The Propriety and Legality of Loyalist Oaths * The Rising Tide of Fury * Tory Defiance * Loyalists in Exile * The Return of the Natives The Struggle for Democracy at Home * All Power Is in the People * Massachusetts Realizes the Theories of the Wisest Writers * Two Bills of Rights * Freedom Embraces Religion as Well as Politics * How Reconcile Freedom to Slavery? * Austerity, Morality and Equality * Education for a Free People * Will the Revolution Wipe Out Class Distinctions? The Battle for New York * The Redcoats Bring War to the Middle States * The Eve of Battle * The Howe's' First Attempt at Conciliation * The Battle of Long Island Begins * Sullivan Leaves the Back Door Open * Stirling Makes a Gallant Stand * The Withdrawal to New York * The Futile Mission of the Howes: The Negotiations with Members of Congress * Awaiting the Attack * The East River Crossing and the Kip's Bay Rout * The British Repulse at Harlem Heights * New York in Flames: The Great Fire of September 20 * The Martyrdom of Nathan Hale * Awaiting Howe's Next Move * The Retreat to White Plains * Howe's Futile Stroke at White Plains * The Fall of Fort Washington The Burgoyne Campaign * The Plan for a Three-Pronged Attack on New York * First Round: A War of Words * The Fall of Ticonderoga * Burgoyne's First Serious Blunder * The Jenny McCrea Atrocity * The Rout of St. Leger * The Hessian Disaster at Bennington * Saratoga: The First Phase: Freeman's Farm * Six Henry Clinton's Relief Expedition * Saratoga: The Last Phase: Bemis Heights * The Surrender of Burgoyne Howe Invades Pennsylvania * Philadelphia Is the Objective * Brandywine * The Fall of Philadelphia * Germantown * The Struggle for Control of the Delaware * Valley Forge * The "Conway Cabal" * The British Abandon Philadelphia France Comes In * America Seeks Foreign Aid Without Entangling Alliances * France Gives Aid Short of War * France Enters the War England Seeks Reconciliation * The Attempt to Woo Franklin * The Carlisle Commission * Forlorn Hopes of Peace The Patriots Seize the Initiative in the Middle States * General Prescott is Captured * Lafayette's Abortive Expedition to Canada * Monmouth * The Rhode Island Campaign of 1778 * Stony Point * Paulus Hook * Springfield * Benedict Arnold Fires New London Spies, Treason and Mutiny * Dr. Church Goes over to the Enemy * Arson in America and England * A Regius Professor Remains Loyal to His King * Dr. Edward Bancroft Gives the History of His Career as a Spy * The Treason of Benedict Arnold * The Capture and Execution of Andr * Mutiny The Home Front in the War * Munitions, Supplies and Impressment * Holding the Price and Wages Line * Further Efforts to Hold the Price Line * The Issuance and Control of the Currency * An End to Depreciation: The Forty-to-One Formula * The Bank and the Financier * Profiteers and Profiteering Health, Hospitals and Medicine * Setting Up a Medical Establishment * The Ravages of Smallpox on the Expedition against Canada * The Breakdown of Hospital Services * Dr. Shippen and Dr. Rush Try to Bring Order out of Chaos * The Impact of the War on Medicine Prisons and Escapes * Stormont Rejects Franklin's Plea for Mercy to Prisoners * John Leach and His Companions Sugger in a Boston Prison * The Sufferings of American Prisoners in New York * The Horrors of the British Prison Ships * Congress Keeps the "Convention" Troops in America * The Sufferings of Loyalist and British Prisoners * American Prisoners in English Gaols * Captain Asgill Is Reprieved as a Compliment to Louis XVI Songs and Ballads of the Revolution * Patriot * Loyalist and British Sea Battles and Naval Raids * Founding the American Navy * Congress Runs the Navy * Sandwich Presides over the Misfortunes of the British Navy * The Naval War off the New England Coast * A Submarine in New York Waters? * The Naval War in Foreign Waters American Diplomats on the Vaunted Scene of Europe * The American Commission Is Riddled with Dissension * Mission to Spain * John Adams Descends upon the Dutch War Out of Niagara * Both Sides Enlist Indians * Wyoming * The Americans Strike Back: The Sullivan Expedition * The Americans Strike Back: The Broadhead Expedition * The Final Campaigns along the New York Borderlands The Redcoats Carry the War to the South * The Charleston Expedition The Second Campaign to Conquer the South * The Fall of Savannah * Advance and Repulse in Georgia * Prevost's Charleston Expedition * The Franco-American Expedition to Recapture Savannah * The Fall of Charleston * The Massacre at the Waxhaws * Patriots Whip Tories at Ramsour's Mill * Pillage and Civil War Flame in South Carolina * At Camden Gate's Northern Laurels Turn to Southern Willows * The Patriot Cause Looks Up: King's Mountain The Turn of the Tide * Partisan Warfare Takes Its Toll * Cowpens, the Patriots' Best-Fought Battle * The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Guilford Courthouse * The Partisan Role in the Reconquest of South Carolina * Hobkirk's Hill, the Second Battle of Camden * The Fall of the British Outposts * Eutaw Springs Yorktown: Washington's Vindication * Washington's Strategy Looks to the Chesapeake * De Grasse's Naval Victory * The Siege * Cornwallis Surrenders Winning the Peace * France Seeks to Dictate the American Peace * Britain Sues for Peace * "The Point of Independence" * The Battle for the Fisheries * The Settlement of the Loyalist Question * The Reception of the Peace Treaty Closing Scenes * In England Defeat Shakes the Foundations of Monarchy * The Alternatives of Dictatorship or Republican Government * Washington's Parting Advice to the New Nation * "Peace Made, a New Scene Opens"
Henry Steele Commager, adistinguished historian, has written many books, including The American Mind, and, as editor, Documents of American History and The Blue and the Gray . Richard B. Morris, one of our country's most respected scholars, has authored The American Revolution Reconsidered and John Jay: The Making of a Revolutionary.
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