A Short History of the American RevolutionHarper Collins, 2009 M10 6 - 308 páginas 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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Decision and Indecision | 37 |
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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