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
Fortescue, as cited, gives excellent plans. Other useful books are
McCrady, History of South Carolina in the Revolution (1901); Draper,
King's Mountain and its Heroes (1881); Simms, Life of Marion (1844).
Ross (editor), The Cornwallis Correspondence, 3 vols. (1859), and
Tarleton, History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern
Provinces of North America (1787), give the point of view of British
leaders. On the West, Thwaites, How George Rogers Clark won the
Northwest (1903); and on the Loyalists Van Tyne, The Loyalists in the
American Revolution (1902), Flick, Loyalism in New York (1901), and
Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts (1910).
CHAPTERS X AND XI.
For the exploits of John Paul Jones and of the American navy, Mrs. De
Koven's The Life and Letters of John Paul Jones, 2 vols. (1913), Don C.
Seitz's Paul Jones, and G. W. Allen's A Naval History of the American
Revolution, 2 vols. (1913), should be consulted. Jusserand's With
Americans of Past and Present Days (1917) contains a chapter on
"Rochambeau and the French in America"; Johnston's The Yorktown Campaign
(1881) is a full account; Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of my own Time
(1815, reprinted 1904), tells of the reception of the news of Yorktown
in England.
The Encyclopœdia Britannica has useful references to authorities for
persons prominent in the Revolution and The Dictionary of National
Biography for leaders on the British side.
Index
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Abraham, Plains of (QC), American army on, 50.
Adams, Abigail, 49.
Adams, John, in Continental Congress, 8; journey from Boston to
Philadelphia, 9-10; on committee to draft Declaration of Independence,
75-76; excepted from British offer of pardon, 86, 92; opinion of
Philadelphia, 120, 165; criticism of Washington, 149; sent to Paris on
American Commission, 270-271.
Albany (NY), plan to concentrate British forces at, 133.
Allen, Colonel Ethan, 40.
André, Major John, at Philadelphia, 195; treats with Arnold, 241-242;
capture, 242-243; hanged as spy, 243.
Annapolis (MD), Congress at, 275.
Anne, Fort, 129.
Armed neutrality, 206.
Army, American, camp at Cambridge, 27-28; Washington reorganizes, 30-35;
food and clothing, 30-31, 32 153-156, 166; composition, 31-32, 43;
officers, 32-35, 43-44; after Canadian campaign, 51; desertions, 100,
159-160; plundering by, 111; pay, 111, 158-159, 209; in 1777, 112;
condition under Gates, 145; Washington wishes national, 151; needs
of engineers, 152; hospital service, 152-153, 166-167; weapons and
artillery, 156-158; religion in, 160-161; supplies from France, 184;
after Valley Forge, 197; mutinous, 209, 246.
Army, British, food for, 36; press-gangs, 176; flogging, 176; relations
between officers and men, 176-177; difficulties of raising, 178; see
also Germans.
Army, French, in America, 235-236.
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