Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of IndependenceWrong, George McKinnon
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Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence
Wrong, George McKinnon
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Military leadership
For the state of opinion in England, the contemporary Annual Register,
and the writings and speeches of men of the time like Burke, Fox, Horace
Walpole, and Dr. Samuel Johnson. The King's attitude is found in Donne,
Correspondence of George III with Lord North, 1768-83, 2 vols. (1867).
Stirling, Coke of Norfolk and his Friends, 2 vols. (1908), gives
the outlook of a Whig magnate; Fitzmaurice, Life of William, Earl
of Shelburne, 2 vols. (1912), the Whig policy. Curwen's Journals and
Letters, 1775-84 (1842), show us a Loyalist exile in England. Hazelton's
The Declaration of Independence, its History (1906), is an elaborate
study.
CHAPTERS IV, V, AND VI.
The three campaigns--New York, Philadelphia, and the Hudson--are covered
by C. F. Adams, Studies Military and Diplomatic (1911), which makes
severe strictures on Washington's strategy; H. P. Johnston's "Campaign
of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn," in the Long Island Historical
Society's Memoirs, and Battle of Harlem Heights (1897); Carrington,
Battles of the American Revolution (1904); Stryker, The Battles
of Trenton and Princeton (1898); Lucas, History of Canada (1909).
Fonblanque's John Burgoyne (1876) is a defense of that leader; while
Riedesel's Letters and Journals Relating to the War of the American
Revolution (trans. W. L. Stone, 1867) and Anburey's Travels through
the Interior Parts of America (1789) are accounts by eye-witnesses.
Mereness' (editor) Travels in the American Colonies, 1690-1783 (1916)
gives the impressions of Lord Adam Gordon and others.
CHAPTERS VII AND VIII.
On Washington at Valley Forge, Oliver, Life of Alexander Hamilton
(1906); Charlemagne Tower, The Marquis de La Fayette in the American
Revolution, 2 vols. (1895); Greene, Life of Nathanael Greene (1893);
Brooks, Henry Knox (1900); Graham, Life of General Daniel Morgan (1856);
Kapp, Life of Steuben (1859); Arnold, Life of Benedict Arnold (1880). On
the army Bolton and Hatch as cited; Mahan gives a lucid account of
naval effort. Barrow, Richard, Earl Howe (1838) is a dull account of a
remarkable man. On the French alliance, Perkins, France in the American
Revolution (1911), Corwin, French Policy and the American Alliance of
1778 (1916), and Van Tyne on "Influences which Determined the French
Government to Make the Treaty with America, 1778," in The American
Historical Review, April, 1916.
CHAPTER IX.
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